“10/26/2010, 8:06pm EST”
“No such thing as a vegan,” eh? This chart is so riddled with ignorant hyperbole it’s hard to know where to begin. For just a few obviously false examples, according to this chart: all “minerals,” “plastics,” “fertilizers,” “textiles,” and “medicines,” and even the very abundant atmospheric chemical “nitrogen,” come exclusively from “cattle.” Moreover, apparently personal consumption of everything on this list, including frivolities like “fireworks,” are necessary for our very existence. Those two very false premises are necessary to “conclude” from this chart (can it really be called a “chart”?) that it’s impossible to be vegan.
Let’s cut to the chase. Vegan alternatives exist to almost everything named above, and hey — a lot of those products you think you need? You don’t. Especially not fireworks. This chart, even where it manages to be partially accurate (for example, only some refined sugar is made with bone char — not all of it), merely shows how disgusting it *actually* is to be a conventional consumer.
To the creator of this monstrosity: You. Are. An. Idiot. I’m not sorry for saying it. You don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. You don’t deserve any kindness in the midst of your attempt to rationalize unimaginable cruelty to animals.
You. Are. A. Certifiable. Idiot.
Don’t want to be an idiot? Great. Stop being one.
—Dan
(via citiesandyears)
Never leave home without it.
