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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 5h

Most people in Britain say factory farming is unacceptable. Most people also eat animals. New survey data exposes the gap between what we say we believe and the system we keep paying to continue every day.

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Britain Opposes Factory Farming Between Meals

Millions of people appear to recognise something is wrong with the system while continuing to participate in it.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 9h

India’s exotic animal market could reach $75.8 million by 2030. Behind the growth are animals smuggled, bred and confined for private ownership. The law has gaps, but the deeper problem is the trade itself.

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India’s Exotic Animal Trade Is Growing Faster Than Its Laws

While India has tightened some laws, the trade has expanded faster than the protections around it.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 11h

Slow-growing chickens suffer less intense pain, fewer broken legs, less heart failure, fewer grotesque deformities. But to keep shelves stocked with the same amount of flesh, producers need to breed and kill far more of them.

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The Better Chicken Con: When “Welfare” Means More Dead Birds

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Patty Shenker 🌱🕊️ @pattys06.bsky.social · 14h

Leave the animals alone

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KamobogroK @sirlanzenhart.bsky.social · 16h

"The contradiction is particularly ugly because there is no conflict here between caring about workers and caring about animals. Both are being fed into the same industrial system." And both are just numbers to the system. #GoVegan #EndSpeciesism #BurnDownAllSlaughterhouses

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14h

Basic logic is kryptonite for those who defend animal exploitation.

The image is a three-part satirical cartoon illustrating characters avoiding their weaknesses. The first part shows a vampire cringing away from sunlight, the second part depicts Superman recoiling from kryptonite, and the third part portrays a person labeled as "Carnist" dramatically evading "Basic Logic." This visual metaphor humorously critiques the flawed reasoning often used to justify exploiting animals.

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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 23h

Be honest Do you actually care about exploited humans or is it simply a convenient excuse? 💭 [bring up veganism and labour conditions in agriculture become a devastating argument against refusing to eat animals, yet concern for workers becomes harder to find when the workplace is a slaughterhouse]

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 17h

Soft jumpers. Soft scarves. Soft branding. Soft lighting. Words like “natural”, “timeless”, “responsible” and “sustainable”. The goat is missing from the story 🐐

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How Much Do You Know About Cashmere?

Cashmere comes from the fine undercoat of goats.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 19h

Killing someone that's enjoying their life is arguably much worse than killing someone who is suffering.

Text meme on a plain white background. It reads: “‘Killing a happy, healthy Golden Retriever is better than killing a sickly, depressed Golden Retriever’ — when you argue for free range meat.” The message highlights the flawed logic of justifying killing animals based on their quality of life before death.

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Cambria Celtica @cambriaceltica.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Along with the article, this is the most impactful quote I’ve read in a long time. Highlighting extreme systemic injustice, where destinations diverge, zero hope, zero chance ‘Though one group enters alive & expect to leave intact. The other enters alive & is guaranteed to leave in pieces’ #GoVegan

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GaⓋen Kind. 🌱 🌱 🌱 @gavenkind.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

”The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. This cruel industry will end because we run out of excuses.” — Philip Wollen, on the animal agriculture industry

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Calling it a rescue does not change the transaction. If a farmer has already profited from a hen’s eggs, then gets paid again when she is “spent”, compassion has become another revenue stream for the egg industry.

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Are You Rescuing a Hen or Buying Her?

Four hundred hens left one of Estonia’s largest cage farms on the 26th of September and went to new homes instead of being killed.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

New York City is preparing to ban horse-drawn carriages. The city's mayor and council speaker have agreed to support legislation that would end the industry by June 2028.

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Mayor and City Council speaker agree to ban horse carriages in NYC

The bill would provide training to transition drivers into new jobs before a total ban goes into effect in 2028.

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Patty Shenker 🌱🕊️ @pattys06.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When saving lives becomes criminal, our humanity has been killed 💔

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Bob White @rwdwhite.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This gets so little coverage that I wasn’t even aware of it. It’s time for us Europeans to put a stop to barbarity and stop whaling by all European nations.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Many farmed fishes, especially salmon, are carnivores. They are fed other fishes. That is not saving the ocean. That is feeding one victim to another.

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Fish Farming Was Never About Saving The Oceans

The ocean does not need fish farms. It needs humans to stop treating sea animals as food.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When does the not surviving kick in? 😅

Meme with text at the top: “When they say people can’t survive without eating animal products and u just stand there being all alive and shit.” Below are multiple images of a young man (Zac Efron) shrugging with a smile, wearing a blue shirt in two poses and a red shirt in one. The meme humorously points out that vegans are living proof that animal products are not necessary for survival.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A varied whole-food plant-based diet provides more than enough arginine for most people, unless they have a specific clinical need or are undergoing extreme physical stress, in which case they need supplementation.

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All About Arginine

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hicksville420.bsky.social @hicksville420.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Beef production has driven 41% of global commodity-driven deforestation since the turn of the century. And almost two-thirds of that destruction happened in one country. Brazil.

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Petal Lu Ⓥ 💚🌱💙🌎 @petallu.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

NOW is a great time to stop eating animals!! #GoVegan #EatPlantBased

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/10/2026

The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Did you know that sheep have tails? 🐑 Just like dogs, they wag them when excited. In the wool industry their tails are sliced off 🤬

This image shows a pile of severed lambs' tails, the result of a practice called "tail docking" in the wool industry. The tails, still covered in wool, are scattered on the floor in a grim and unsettling scene. The practice is often done without anaesthesia and is intended to prevent infections in wool-producing sheep, but it causes pain and suffering. The image highlights the cruelty inherent in the wool industry.

This image shows a group of sheep in an enclosure, with a young lamb in the foreground whose hindquarters are visibly bloodied from tail docking. The lamb's tail has been removed, leaving a painful and raw wound. The other sheep, some of whom also show signs of recent shearing or injury, stand nearby. The image highlights the cruelty and suffering endured by sheep in the wool industry, especially during procedures like tail docking.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Three activists were convicted of stealing Sammy, Sunny and Sooty from the King’s Sandringham Estate. The sheep are only alive because they were taken.

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Saving 3 Sheep Was a Crime. Killing Them Wouldn’t Have Been.

Three women walked into a field on the Sandringham Estate and took 3 lambs.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

More than 2,000 fish died at Furnace Brook. Some had names. People knew them as individuals. But this was a fishing lake, where those same fishes were deliberately caught for recreation.

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Mourning Fish They Happily Caught for Fun

More than 2,000 fish died at Furnace Brook in East Sussex in June 2024.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

A night parrot chick has been found in the Australian desert, a remarkable discovery for a species once thought extinct. But nearby, cats are targeted with poison. Why is innovation for one animal matched with killing for another?

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One Tiny Night Parrot, One Big Question About Conservation

A young night parrot has been found hiding inside a tunnel of old-growth spinifex in Western Australia.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

While many activists call for justice for "all," this call routinely excludes the billions of non-human individuals commodified, confined, and killed each year.

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The Unspoken Exclusion: Animal Rights & Intersectionality

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Never doubt your ability to change hearts and minds 💚

Screenshot of a tweet reply to @herbivore_club. The tweet reads: “Wow, pigs are really adorable. I used to be brainwashed by the worldwide gang that pigs are stupid and dirty. Thanks for opening my eyes.”

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The public often imagines wildlife trafficking as ivory, tiger bones, rhino horn, or luxury goods. But a huge part of the trade is more ordinary than that.

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How Europe Fuels Latin America’s Wildlife Trade

A frog does not become less wild because someone puts them in a plastic tub.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Scroll through TikTok for 30 seconds and you’ll find a reel of pastel-coloured pens, hay racks styled like spa shelves, and a bunny doing zoomies across someone’s minimalist living room. It’s cute. It’s calm. It’s curated. What it’s not is honest 🐇

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Don’t Get a Rabbit Unless You’re Ready to Be Outwitted by One

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Show love & kindness to all animals - they deserve our compassion, not cruelty 💚

A sheep and a goat are lying side by side on a grassy area, both appearing peaceful and content. The goat rests their head affectionately on the sheep’s shoulder, and both have their eyes closed in a display of comfort and companionship.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One product. One country. Roughly a quarter of global deforestation. Brazilian beef is driving forest loss on a staggering scale, while cattle pasture expansion is also responsible for more than half of deforestation-related CO₂ emissions.

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Brazilian Beef Is Driving a Quarter of Global Deforestation

There is something absurd about the way we talk about deforestation.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We are poisoning insects with pesticides, heating the planet and wrecking habitats. Now scientists are exploring gene-editing butterflies so they can survive what we are doing to them. At what point do we change us instead? 🦋

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Maybe the Butterfly Isn’t Who Needs Fixing

Imagine poisoning butterflies, then deciding the butterflies need fixing.

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GaⓋen Kind. 🌱 🌱 🌱 @gavenkind.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here’s an idea: Stop breeding animals into existence for profit…for the sole purpose of exploiting and killing them. Then you won’t have to worry about having enough vets to keep them alive long enough so they’ll be profitable enough to kill. #LiveVegan

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

People talk about the Green Party as though social justice hasn't been 1 of the 4 founding pillars of Green politics for decades. It's not a new direction they've suddenly taken. It's reminiscent of people reducing veganism to nothing more than a diet.

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Monarchy is sold to us as tradition. As culture. As harmless pomp and pageantry. But it’s not harmless, it’s a blueprint. It’s the prototype for every hierarchy that tells someone they matter more than someone else.

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Monarchy: No One Is Born to Kneel

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

When you've been burned too many times...

Alt text: A man in a red shirt stands in a supermarket aisle holding a pack of vegan-labelled desserts, inspecting it with a sceptical expression. Shelves behind him are full of plant-based yoghurts and mousses. Text above reads: “When it says ‘vegan’ but you’re like ‘I’ll be the judge of that.’”

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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Farmed honeybees compete with native pollinators for nectar and pollen. They can spread disease. They can distort ecosystems already under pressure from habitat loss, pesticides, climate change, monoculture farming, and urban development.

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“Save the Bees” Has Been Hijacked by the Honey Industry

Native pollinators do not need more competition from farmed colonies.

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