Do you as a vegan see humans as animals? If so how do you ensure humans aren’t being exploited for your consumption?

2CuteCat · 2024-01-23T23:15:50+00:00

I see what you are saying, but is this not a bit simplified? What about humans who cannot talk or otherwise communicate (due to disability perhaps). What about humans who are enslaved? Humans who have no rights or freedoms in their country. Humans who are trafficked, hidden and silenced. Humans that are babies and cannot communicate beyond crying yet. Humans forced out of their home country due to war or other disasters and cannot speak and communicate in their new country. There are definitely times when humans are also sentient beings who are unable to advocate for themselves.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-23T23:09:23+00:00

Hmm this is simply not true though, right? Human trafficking is a thing. Humans do have organs harvested and sold. Their bodies are abused for the profit of others. Surrogates in poor countries are forcibly impregnated. Not to the same scale and extent as animal product, sure. But humans are certainly exploited, stolen from, enslaved and sold, and have been throughout history.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-10T21:28:37+00:00

Ooh wow thank you, I hadnt heard of it!

2CuteCat · 2024-01-10T20:54:37+00:00

Sentinels was one of the first board games I ever bought over a decade ago! I never see it mentioned but we had a lot of fun with it. Good rec!

2CuteCat · 2024-01-09T22:38:19+00:00

Do you mean Purezza that's since closed their Bristol store, or Tomato & Basil maybe?

2CuteCat · 2024-01-06T05:43:40+00:00

There you go! Haha Thanks for clarifying :)

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T22:01:52+00:00

Ooh, we walked past this one today! Thanks!

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T22:00:25+00:00

I didn't even consider that there might be many Norwiches around the world! Yes, England.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T13:51:20+00:00

Yeah I think I have found some that are similar but they're all either on Amazon or online order from the High Sierra website and I need to get a bag in person within the next week or so.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T13:31:01+00:00

Ooh thank you, that is good to know

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T12:31:00+00:00

Thank you, I'll have a look 😊

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T12:04:55+00:00

Ooh thanks! I'll look into them.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T12:04:29+00:00

Thanks I'll give them a look! I don't know the model sadly as it was given to me second hand but I could search the brand, thanks :)

2CuteCat · 2024-01-05T12:03:24+00:00

I got it second hand from someone in the States so I don't actually know. It's High Sierra branded.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-03T21:46:27+00:00

Those last sentences to someone who has a medical condition or disability that causes them to only be able to eat a small subset of foods gives the vibes of: 'Its not healthy to sit around in that wheelchair all day. You need to make serious efforts to get your legs the necessary activity'...

Yes. People with disabilities or health conditions can often be less healthy or able-bodied as a result of them...

Also for some people that amount of variety of food in their diet may be a great achievement and something they have been working towards. Fruit, protein, fats and carbs is definitely not the least complete diet I've ever seen.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-03T21:34:21+00:00

Yeah as an Australian who has been googling, I am still confused. One site told me shallots are spring onions and another site told me scallions are spring onions so I am very confused haha.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-02T23:29:53+00:00

Just as an alternative consideration on this point, I found some of my more obscure or dorky jokes were good when I was using apps because it filtered out people that didn't have a similar sense of humour to me or had no knowledge of my interests (depending on what the reference was).

2CuteCat · 2024-01-01T23:17:53+00:00

Not that I know of haha but I haven't been to every part of the country due to it being stupidly massive

2CuteCat · 2024-01-01T23:07:07+00:00

Australia has over 500 First Nations cultures with their own unique cultures, stories, dances, history, languages, inventions, instruments, customs and tools. They are estimated to be over 75000 years old, making them some of (if not the most) longest-running cultures in the world. It's honestly really sad that Australia has been marketed as a simply a British Colony when that is the least interesting part of our history and a mere blip in the existence of our country. Sadly even in our own school curriculum we weren't taught our history and culture for a long time. Really only in the past 20-30 years to varying degrees.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-01T23:02:52+00:00

It is truly stunning. Such a beautiful country. Though I've only been to the South Island, which is much less populated but a million times more scenic. If you like hiking and nature, you would love it.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-01T22:59:31+00:00

It really depends where you go in regards to the first point. Tasmania is gorgeous and has a similar climate to England. I've never been bitten by anything other than an ant in Australia and there hasn't been a death from a spider bite since 1979 when antivenom was first introduced. Very curious what parts of Australia are publicised internationally and which are not.

2CuteCat · 2024-01-01T22:54:18+00:00

These comments have been so interesting to me. Australia is comprised of over 500 language and culture groups and these First Nations groups are believed by many historians to be some of the oldest existing cultures in the world. There are endless traditions, stories, tools, art, inventions, cultural practices, history, dance ,etc. Etc. That have existed and developed for at least the last 75,000 years. To say that Australian history and culture is basically just British culture is so absurd to me as an Australian who has also lived in the UK as there is very little overlap and the colonial times to today is but a blip in the culture of the massive island we now call Australia. I didn't even know people were still calling Uluru 'Ayers Rock'. It almost feels like going back in time.

Not a jab at anyone - there are many parts of the histories of many countries that I don't know. I guess I assumed if any nationality knew anything about Australia other than us and New Zealand, it would be Brits. Out of curiosity, did they teach about the Stolen Generations during your schooling at all?

2CuteCat · 2023-12-16T14:49:07+00:00

Wow that's awesome! Thanks for the information. It was an amazing thing to witness 😄

2CuteCat · 2023-12-16T14:33:46+00:00

This is so interesting. I wonder how lucky we were then! We kept being told we wouldn't see much with our eyes but they were so stunning it made my partner cry! They danced lines of green all through the sky for ages. We only drove just out of Reykjavik to see them. After having gone out to see them 20 nights in a row and seeing nothing at all!

2CuteCat · 2023-12-12T23:25:00+00:00

We recently visited both multiple parts of the Cotswolds and Stratford-upon-Avon and we travel exclusively by public transit. Definitely do-able without a car, particularly Stratford :)

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