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ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 25, 2023

Sheril Kirshenbaum Jun 25, 2023

I don’t like to mention that rich guy over at #Twitter, but he’s rambling on about #ClimateChange & agriculture, which is in my wheelhouse. And he is also unabashedly & absurdly wrong.

Misinformation on climate change is irresponsible & dangerous, so let’s be clear:

25% to 30% of global emissions come from our #food system.

As UT Austin’s Michael Webber describes, agriculture is a major cause, victim and - importantly - meaningful solution to #climate change.

More at https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food

How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food?

Estimates of food emissions can range from one-quarter to one-third. Where do these differences come from?

Our World in Data

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 25, 2023

HYPERPEACE Jun 25, 2023

Just finished watching Ed Winters video on horse racing, and he bought up an interesting point about the purpose of animals is to live their own lives. Which honestly gave me goosebumps because of how, chilling that is... dear god, how low has humanity gone? The fact we're controlling how other's live harmless lives? And it's so universal too.
Fuck...
#vegan #veganism #climatechange #climateemergency #lgbtq #lgbtqia
#disability #mentalhealth #autism
#ethnicity

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 23, 2023

i can’t comprehend why some people still *choose* to drink cow milk over plant milk. plant milk is delicious! why would anyone consciously choose the option that takes an innocent, helpless, terrified mother, forcefully impregnates them endlessly, separates them from their babies the moment they’re born, and mechanically tortures them in a prison until they are no longer “useful” and must be brutally killed? not to mention the massive toll on the #environment and the fact that it’s just plain gross: you’re a human drinking a glass of processed pus from the breasts of a tormented animal. i’ve spent time caring for these beautiful beings after they’ve been liberated. they’re no different from the #dogs and #cats that we love so much. they love to play and frolic, they feel emotion deeply, and they have their own personalities if given the chance to develop them. but in each of their eyes, i can see the pain and horror that we’ve subject them to, and for what? the ONLY justification for this is not knowing better. please, for these sweet, innocent creatures, for our children’s future during the #climatecrisis, for #leftism, for #feminism, go #vegan ❤️

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 21, 2023

transphobia at work (by the head of HR!) is driving me fucking insane

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 21, 2023

Plague Poems Jun 20, 2023

After buying groceries
in the parking lot
I passed by the woman
who had harassed me
in the supermarket
for wearing a mask
and to my amusement saw
that her vehicle had
a bumper sticker reading
“be kind.”

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 18, 2023

“Last month, millions of intensively farmed chickens died during the record-breaking heatwave. As temperatures reached 45C, the birds were left flapping and panting as they died slowly of heat exhaustion, according to a witness.

One shed worker told The Independent that the birds were simply “left to die in the heat” and “written off” as a cost. Another worker said they were experiencing flashbacks from the “sheer scale and stink of the dead bodies” of the chickens that died. “I often find that I just suddenly start crying and shaking,” they said.”

from “If you get angry about dogs in hot cars and eat meat – you’re a hypocrite” — https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/dogs-hot-cars-heatwave-farm-animals-cruelty-b2144734.html

#vegan #plantbased #speciesism #climatecrisis #climatechange #birds

If you get angry about dogs in hot cars and eat meat – you’re a hypocrite

Why are you able to be sympathetic to dogs in hot cars, but not cows, pigs and sheep in hot trucks and confined on factory farms?

The Independent

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 12, 2023

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 12, 2023

Industrial farming has killed billions of birds
Scientists: Saving birds requires rapid transformative change, especially agricultural reform

https://climateandcapitalism.com/2023/06/06/industrial-farming-kills-billions-of-birds/

Worldwide, 49% of all wild bird species are in steep decline. BirdLife International’s authoritative report, State of the World’s Birds 2022, estimates that there are now nearly 3 billion fewer wild birds in Canada & the U.S. than a few decades ago

#agriculture #IndustrialFarming #wildlife #EcologicalDesruction #farming #birds

Industrial farming has killed billions of birds | Climate & Capitalism

Scientists: Saving birds requires rapid transformative change…

Climate & Capitalism

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ Jun 3, 2023

Seed the Commons Jun 3, 2023

More than 800 million trees have been cut down in the Amazon to meet beef demand.

Animal liberation and climate justice are one and the same.

#ClimateJustice #ClimateChange #vegan #veganic #Brazil #Amazon

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

Investigation involving Guardian shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming in Brazil

The Guardian

ivy is birdposting Ⓥ May 14, 2023

MikeF May 14, 2023

I just finished watching the incredible video, The Messenger (Imagine a world without birdsong), a documentary that deals with the avian extinction crisis. The video focuses on songbirds and highlights the incredible feats of migration they undertake, their variety and songs. The video also discusses their importance to our ecosystems. But, the main focus is on the existential threats they face in the Anthropocene, from the millions that perish against skyscraper windows or in domestic cats' claws, to the insidious impact of neonicotinoid pesticides and the ecological devastation wreaked by the energy sector, and the looming threat of climate change to migratory birds. The movie poses some potential palliatives, for example agroecology. But the message is stark. If we continue along the present course, birds face a dubious future.

https://filmsfortheearth.org/en/film/the-messenger/

#birds #biodiversity #extinction #nature #birding #MastodonNatureCommunity