vegan

I find that, ever since going vegan, I miss dairy more than I miss meat. Sure, there are decent-to-good vegan substitutes for most dairy products out there, but I have yet to find a vegan restaurant that offers milkshakes - which is surprising to me, since they're ridiculously easy to make. So I figured I'd post the recipe I use here.

You need:

• 1/2 cup non-dairy milk
• 1 pint non-dairy ice cream in the flavor you want the shake to be
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1/2 cup crushed ice

Drop all the ingredients into a blender, set to puree, blend until you're happy with the consistency, pour into a tall glass.

This is something I've been thinking a lot about recently but I'm still not sure what is right. My rule of thumb has been that I'll kill any bug that is infesting my house or causing a problem to my health. Like I would kill termites or bed bugs if I had those, or like a leech or a tick. But recently I've been getting a lot of flies in my apartment and while they are technically "infesting" the place, they're not doing anything to harm me, just annoy me. Is it wrong to kill them?

Also I would like to say that if I encountered any of these bugs out in nature I would leave them alone and not harm them, this is only in the context of a threat to your sanitation or home

I have somehow met a vegan CHUD and they're convinced an ancap vegan society is possible

Is birds nest soup vegan?

Would it be vegan if instead of swiftlet saliva it was just a nest made of twigs and pine straw and stuff like a robin makes?

What's your tofu press setup? I go cutting board, paper towels, tofu, paper towels, pan, then a bag of rice

Tone cops always come out of the woodwork to disparage vegans who ask carnists not to hurt animals, no matter how nicely they ask. But they'd never speak up on behalf of animals, bc they benefit from being the "good vegan" and are beloved by human supremacists for enforcing the status quo. Fighting for animal liberation is incredibly stigmatized, and pick-me's try to escape that stigma by throwing activists under the bus. This is common in all spheres of social justice.

Respectability politics have been criticized for being "used to rationalize racism, sexism, bigotry, hate, and violence." For example, Bill Cosby "never gave voice to issues of racism, sexism, the failed public school system, health and economic disparities, mass incarceration or police brutality. Instead, he spent over a decade disparaging Black folk to the delight of white conservatives." which made him controversial in the Black community.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respectability_politics

I've said it before and I'll say it again: any challenge to the status quo will be deemed "mean" by those who benefit from it. Misogynists paint those who challenge patriarchy as mean man haters, femin*zis, uppity, unreasonable. Same thing for activists who fight against racism. Human supremacists will always paint vegans as mean bullies for asking them to stop supporting the rape and murder of nonhumans. That doesn't make their framing fair or true. They're just protecting their status quo, which causes the torture and death of over a trillion sentient beings every year. Carnists love when pick-me's favor their feelings (about being told to give up their victims' literal corpses) over the feelings of their victims (terror, grief, pain, horror) and the lives of their victims.

But change doesn't happen when you flatter power and enforce the status quo. Animals will not be liberated by throwing the people who speak out for them under the bus while protecting the people that harm them. Leftists know this already, but they like to forget when it comes to animal liberation