Reposted by Terri MitchellCJ™ Ⓥ @vegancj.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Because the meat dairy egg and fishing industries have everybody completely brainwashed and conditioned to believe that harming animals is "normal" 1162
Reposted by Terri MitchellTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024This is what so many fights over our food system boil down to. The correct answer: We have to boost yields *AND* Reduce environmental harm *AND* Eat less meat *AND* Waste less food 48618
Reposted by Terri MitchellEms 🍉 @emmpower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Please release me. Let me go.. 🙏🏼 help us by ✍🏼 Petition t.co/9Yr2CtMQ41 10 years. #FreeBunaka now enduring freezing winters locked in a cell, alone for 16 hours a day #Armenia 🙏🏼GIVE HIM BEDDING AvinyanTigran.bsky.social His crime? Being an 🐘to exploit for cash. Cher has asked for his release 👇🏽 045
Terri Mitchell @terri-mitchell.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Please take a moment to sign this well-written petition laying out the steps to send Edmonton’s lone elephant Lucy to accredited sanctuary in the US. It is past time to let her retire in an appropriate habitat with elephant companions. #YEG #TAFL 🇨🇦🐘🇺🇸 www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/4...thepetitionsite.comSign Petition: Petition to the City of Edmonton: Prioritizing Lucy’s Long-Term Welfare and Comprehensive Expert Evaluation in retiring her to a sanctuaryWe, the undersigned, urge the City of Edmonton to consider the recommendations surrounding Lucy, the Asian elephant at the (268 signatures on petition) 052
Reposted by Terri MitchellDeb Robinson @captivitycritic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024If you won't go vegan for the animals, maybe at least end your use of dairy for your own safety? 011
Reposted by Terri Mitchelltj2vegas🎗🐘#FreeLucy🙏💪#TeamLucy @tj2vegas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024If we don’t act now, we could lose it all! All my nature-loving friends: please send this letter to get Bill C-73 for the Nature Accountability Act passed before there’s an election! act.naturecanada.ca/page/161854/...act.naturecanada.caWe can’t wait to protect nature!If we don’t act now, we could lose it all! All my nature-loving friends: please send this letter to get Bill C-73 for the Nature Accountability Act passed before there’s an election! 032
Reposted by Terri MitchellEMS FOUNDATION @emsfoundation.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Duma an African bull elephant who was previously captive for four decades in a circus and then a zoo. The EMS Foundation and Shambala Private Game Reserve with the assistance of their colleagues Four Paws International, We Wild Africa, Conservation Solutions and Provet evacuated him to freedom. 076
Terri Mitchell @terri-mitchell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Two more elephants will soon be moving from zoos in Argentina to @globalelephants.bsky.social Elephant Sanctuary Brazil! Please support them today #GivingTuesday and your gift will be matched: globalelephants.org/2024-giving-... 063
Reposted by Terri MitchellStephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/12/2024At the beginning of 2024, throughout the world, over 320 members of the press had been arrested and locked behind bars. Charges ranged from espionage to “extremism.” These false, egregious charges are invariably politically motivated. In Vladimir Putin’s police state, journalists are jailed,… 871165583
Reposted by Terri MitchellTim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I’m just thinking about the people who told be they didn’t like Trump’s behavior but he brings in the best people. It’s be hilarious if weren’t so fucking serious. 918732
Reposted by Terri MitchellRichard Van Camp, MD 🍉 @richvcamp.bsky.social · 30/11/2024ALL animals deserve respect and dignity 🐷❤️ Choose compassion - be vegan & get active. 🌿 #GoVegan 02511
Reposted by Terri MitchellMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024So a reminder: It’s not ‘liberals’ saying Hegseth abuses women. It’s his mom. It’s not ‘liberals’ comparing Trump to Hitler. It’s his vice-president. It’s not ‘liberals’ calling Musk a liar and a racist. It’s his own child. For the record. 5144426413151
Reposted by Terri MitchellLAshton 🌱 @leoashton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Interesting to see people making thanksgiving jokes with that clip of Joaquin doing joker, you know, considering he feels the same way as I do about this day (stolen lives, stolen land) not to mention the 8 million turkeys that have their lives taken just to be tossed into a dumpster. 031
Reposted by Terri MitchellLakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Celebrate and rejoice with me. The buffalo population is slowly coming back. 🪶🦬 1134298572950
Terri Mitchell @terri-mitchell.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Global Sanctuary for Elephants @globalelephants will be making a BIG announcement on Giving Tuesday! What will it be? I don't know but I'm sure it will be something wonderful for captive elephants. 000
Reposted by Terri MitchellMarta Etynkowski Ⓥ @martaetynkowski.bsky.social · 25/11/2024In 2023, Canadians donated $53M on #GivingTuesday to charities (source shorturl.at/DgUXd). Sadly, a portion of that paid for cruel animal experiments bc orgs like Canadian Cancer Society and Heart & Stroke Foundation fund animal testing. This year give only to humane charities www.humanecharities.cahumanecharities.caHumane Charities CanadaHumane Charities Canada is your online source for Canadian health charities that do not fund or conduct animal research. 093
Reposted by Terri MitchellDeb Robinson @captivitycritic.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Of course there's nothing "awesome" about it. Poor Jet will be doomed to a life on a couple of acres of land, and that's if he doesn't get EEHV, as his mother has TWICE. Breeding is irresponsible in a zoo with that often-fatal disease, but here we are 111
Terri Mitchell @terri-mitchell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Helping captive elephants to a better life: Give them as much “room to roam” as possible, diverse temperate habitat, species-appropriate companions, and autonomy, autonomy, autonomy. They will heal themselves and each other. 010
Reposted by Terri MitchellFrejya 🌱🐱📚 @frejyayamato.bsky.social · 25/11/2024"The study, instead, showed that even so-called “incomplete” plant-based protein can stimulate muscle growth in the same way as meat." Rough times for the meat and dairy industries when they cannot even properly skew the findings in their self-funded studies.plantbasednews.orgPlant Protein Is Equal To Meat, Beef Industry-Funded Study FindsA nutritional study funded by the beef industry has inadvertently strengthened the evidence backing vegan protein 15216
Reposted by Terri MitchellGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 24/11/2024P.s. chickens are reared in vast numbers in terrible conditions, whichever country you care to think about. More than 85% are reared in factory farms. Billions of them suffer unimaginably every year. The numbers keep rising. You should stop eating chickens and eggs. 191
Reposted by Terri MitchellGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 24/11/2024“[Starmer] insists to critics’ scepticism — that [net zero] can be achieved without big changes to consumer behaviour, such as reducing flights or eating less meat.” - this cowardly fantasy is infuriating. 183
Reposted by Terri MitchellMelissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano) 146154543264
Reposted by Terri MitchellBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/11/2024“Compared to self-driving cars, and just about any other mobility mode, e-bikes have flourished…If 2023’s trendline continues, the humble e-bike, not the flashy self-driving car, will be poised to reconfigure American transportation.” — @davidzipper.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/90994141/why...fastcompany.comWhy 2023 was the year of the e-bike and not the self-driving carE-bikes and self-driving cars both entered the year with momentum. Only one maintained it. 17536139
Reposted by Terri Mitchell𝕛ꪖꪀꫀ𝕥 ρꪶꪖꪀꫀ𝕥 @jplanet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Trump is going to line his pockets by giving tarrif exemptions to those corporations willing to pay him to play his game called "more for me, if not fuck you" Calling it crony capitalism is being kind. 001
Reposted by Terri MitchellAtheopagan Gab @atheopagan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024climate change is a definitive case against immigration restrictions. you don't survive late 21st century climate changes without frictionless international nomadism where people can adjust living arrangements and supply chains along the most habitable areas. 2229
Reposted by Terri MitchellLaiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Regardless of the party in power, we’ve been gearing up to fight these useless, wasteful and massively destructive border walls in Arizona for years. We won’t allow them to sacrifice our beautiful border region and its endangered wildlife to further their political agenda of fear and division. 221659
Reposted by Terri Mitchellâpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Fascists know they need amplification, that's why they keep bitching about echo chambers. If we aren't facilitating the spreading of their message, that's an obvious problem, but it's a THEM problem. I give not one fuck worrying whether I've gotten a daily dose of vitamin Nazi. 04514
Reposted by Terri MitchellJohn Sanbonmatsu @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Bird flu case may suggest a new mutation making the H5N1 transmissable between humans. Another child case meanwhile has surfaced in the Bay Area. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...theguardian.comBird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humansScientists are racing to understand what a hospitalized teen’s case of bird flu may mean for future outbreaks 12210
Reposted by Terri MitchellGeertrui Cazaux @trudibruges.bsky.social · 20/11/2024That includes anyone who comes up with: - 'mmmm bacon' - 'but plants have feelings too' - 'lions tho' and more of those #bingo comments on #vegan posts 👋 071
Reposted by Terri Mitchelltj2vegas🎗🐘#FreeLucy🙏💪#TeamLucy @tj2vegas.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Captive in freezing #Edmonton since 1977, isn't it time for #yegzoo to #FreeLucy? 032
Reposted by Terri MitchellLaiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Big peer-reviewed study published today: "USA-Mexico border wall impedes wildlife movement." Researchers found an 86% reduction in wildlife crossings where walls were built and a 100% reduction crossings of large animals like mountain lions, deer & bears. READ: www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco... 511971
Reposted by Terri MitchellDelcianna Winders @delcianna.bsky.social · 20/11/2024What Trump’s Re-election Could Mean for Animals www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/s...nytimes.comWhat Trump’s Re-Election Could Mean for AnimalsA second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests. 033
Reposted by Terri MitchellKatie Surma @katiesurma.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Spain's constitutional court upholds the national law recognizing that the saltwater lagoon, Mar Menor, has rights to protection, conservation and restoration, among others. elpais.com/clima-y-medi...elpais.comEl Constitucional avala que el mar Menor goce de personalidad jurídica para su mayor protecciónLa sentencia, aprobada por 7 votos a 5, razona que respalda “una técnica ignota hasta ahora en nuestro derecho ambiental” para garantizar la preservación del medio natural 051
Reposted by Terri MitchellJoe Wills @drjoewills.bsky.social · 17/11/2024“The law is unlikely to swiftly abandon the archaic notion of human ownership over nonhuman animals. But we believe the law does implicitly recognize a right to rescue escaped animals, at least those who are lucky enough to make it on their own steam.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...vox.com43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom.Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think. 1162
Reposted by Terri MitchellVegAvengers @vegavengers.com · 19/11/2024This wasn’t me, I swear. But I kinda’ wish it were… 0111
Reposted by Terri MitchellBarbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 14/11/2024As word comes from the Edinburgh Zoo that a red panda baby named Roxie has died from stress after city fireworks, I'm sharing here a piece I wrote earlier this year for Anthropology News called Ten Things About Human Silence Around Animals. 🧪🌿 #anthropology #animals #naturewritinganthropology-news.orgTen Things about Human Silence around Animals - Anthropology News1. Our day-to-day lives are profoundly entangled with those of other-than-human animals (hereafter, “animals”). Indigenous peoples the world over have 1411825
Reposted by Terri MitchellGinny Messina @theveganrd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I highly, highly recommend this newsletter from rbhubbell.bsky.social. It's a daily reflection on the news that's realistic & hopeful + opportunities for bits of activism. And always ends w/ a photo of the cosmos for much needed perspective. #resistance roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-fall-...roberthubbell.substack.comDon’t fall for “the red mirage”November 18, 2024 192
Reposted by Terri MitchellPeggy @critterlover27.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We are in big trouble, folks. At this point, I don't think we can stop collapse, or "fix" climate change/overshoot. What we might be able to do is soften the landing, allow for the survival of a few more species if we actively try to cause less harm on our way out. #ConsumeLess #GoVegan 2154
Terri Mitchell @terri-mitchell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Baby is a lone elephant living in a closed zoo in Brazil. She has an active court case, with a real chance of transfer to @globalelephants.bsky.social Elephant Sanctuary Brazil. Judges there often look to public opinion, so we can help by signing this petition: www.change.org/p/liberdade-... 030
Reposted by Terri MitchellMarta Etynkowski Ⓥ @martaetynkowski.bsky.social · 20/11/2024I just finished "Rat Trap" by Pandora Pound and can't recommend it enough! If you're interested in the history of #animaltesting, its epic failures in medical #research and how modern tech is superior to animal models, it's a must-read. Science background not req'd. Engaging and eye-opening read! 53711
Reposted by Terri MitchellDeb Robinson @captivitycritic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024This is promising; been looking for more AR folks on here. Torture porn not welcome, tho, so please... 011
Reposted by Terri MitchellCosmicExplorationOfSpace @spacecosmic1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Does the 🌎 know about LUCY she’s known as the coldest loneliest 🐘 in the 🌎 in the worst zoo Edmonton Valley Zoo 🇨🇦 You would think 🇨🇦 would be kind and relocate Lucy to sanctuary wouldn’t you. So 🇨🇦 why are you not being KIND 2/1 vets said she could travel 🧳 #JustinTrudeau @theglobeandmail.com 174
Reposted by Terri MitchellEve Thorne @evethorne.bsky.social · 21/11/2024#abpoli #elephants deserve better 165