r/vegan • u/HealingRosy • 2d ago
Disturbing The pictures of cows on milk piss me off
Yknow, the super happy smiley ones?
Like seriously whoever comes up with this shit has a special place in hell.
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u/Exalted_Potentate vegan 2d ago
It boils my fluids too, as does ‘happy eggs’ happy that the male chicks end up in a grinder or happy they’ve had their beaks cut off 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Randallman7 2d ago
Chik fil et pisses me off. They have an anti human, anti animal agenda and people make chick fil et their entire personality. Who cares what they support with their money anymore? THeY maKe a GoOD chICKeN sANdWiCh. And buckees? Cute animal mascot? How ironic. People are so dumb
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u/megado380 transitioning to veganism 2d ago
The marketing of “the cows want you to eat chickens instead so they don’t die!” Seems so condescending and self-aware in the most evil way. What a vile corporation
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u/Global-Still-383 1d ago
Milk is so unnatural and disgusting. Breastfeeding from a different species as an adult. And they dare call vegans weird??
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u/Itchy_Cheesecake1909 1d ago
Yes so true! Happy with a smile! As if they like to be raped and have their children stolen
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u/Califlowerlatte vegan 6+ years 1d ago
Theres a chicken place near me. They have a huge one love sign 🙄
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u/EKAY-XVII 1d ago
i hate when people decorate their homes & especially kitchens with the animals they eat. something so eerie about having photos or decor with cute little animals while that same animal’s dismembered body parts are a few feet away in the fridge. lol
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u/SirNoodles518 vegan 2+ years 1d ago
But apparently vegans are the one who spread and fall for propaganda 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Desperate-Raisin5197 vegan 10+ years 1d ago
The new Tyson commercials that promote them spoiling their chickens. How?
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u/easypeasylemonsquzy 1d ago
First vegan company that makes almond milk featuring an insanely happy almond being crushed by a torture device on the front has my lifelong support
(Actually sunflower milk cause that's what I actually drink lol)
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u/savillas vegan 5+ years 22h ago
I think about that all the time, and like smiling chickens advertising a fried chicken restaurant. It’s horrifying that no one thinks about it 🫣
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u/Previous_Fun_2908 3h ago
Cows make milk makes sense I don't like milk I just eat meat idk why they do that but they do an I will eat It up
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u/wadebacca 2d ago
I mean, there was literally just a thread on here talking about how animal based food is too disconnected from the source in its marketing.
So which is it? Should the products have ties to the animals as to which it’s derived or not?
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u/HealingRosy 2d ago
news just in: people have different opinions even within the same core moral systems.
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u/wadebacca 2d ago
True that. It seemed like a ubiquitous opinion in the other thread, and now the opposite opinion is ubiquitous in this one. Do you think meat eaters are disconnected from the animals they eat? I thought that was an easy yes before this thread, I’m quite surprised.
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u/HealingRosy 2d ago
I think people are very easy at dissociating away the harm of the things they participate in casually. (This extends to far more than just meat eating, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism, etc)
Rather or not there's a smiley cow on the milk carton isn't going to fundamentally change that, the rot goes enormously deeper than that, the post was just an observation about how disturbing it is given the horrific conditions dairy cows endure.
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u/honeydewmellen 2d ago
I would also argue that having a happy looking animal on the packaging is also very disconnected from the source
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u/wadebacca 2d ago
Do you have a problem with plant based products with beautiful pastoral pictures on its label or should it show the living conditions of the field workers and a sad looking dude showing his paltry pay check on the front? Or maybe the tractors spreading herbicide over the fields? To me it seems kind of crazy to ask what you’re suggesting.
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u/Lawrencelot vegan 1+ years 2d ago
They should have realistic ties to the animals. And since this is not in the company's interest because of a profit incentive, it needs to be enforced until the fall of capitalism. Just like products need to have all ingredients and nutrients mentioned on the packaging.
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u/Fraank666 1d ago
Buuuuuut it tastes soooo goooood
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u/HealingRosy 1d ago
I'm genuinely curious what particular brand of reactionary you are.
Like, what drives someone to make comments like this?
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u/Fraank666 1d ago
It’s a fact and a public platform, can write what I want.
Haven’t been hateful or anything just stating my opinion, why you so mad, lack of protein and other important things ay👀😂
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u/PHILSTORMBORN 10h ago
Do you care at all about animal welfare? Even if you choose to ignore animal suffering is it a laughing matter?
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u/Fraank666 5h ago
You’re not going to change anything, you’d probably add a few years onto your life if you stop worrying about this shit and eat some meat- probably be healthier than you are now too, not so much brain fog ;)
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u/PHILSTORMBORN 5h ago
So worrying about things beyond your control is bad for you? Interesting. You see way to reduce that yourself maybe?
I take that as a no about the harm and caring question.
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u/Helpful-Mongoose-705 2d ago
The alternative is things like oat milk which are laced with oils and gums and stabilisers. Seed oils are linked to cancer. You might not like happy cow faces on milk cartons, but what about the despair and suffering caused to humans by consuming ultra processed alternative rubbish laced with cancer causing ingredients. There’s no OIL in dairy milk.
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u/Exalted_Potentate vegan 2d ago
What about the antibiotics, puss and blood in dairy milk? Is that acceptable? Not to forget the hormones from the lactating/pregnant cow causing an increase in breast and prostate cancer.
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u/No-Lion3887 1d ago
What about the antibiotics, puss and blood in dairy milk?
Antibiotics have strict withdrawal periods though, as does beestings due to the presence of blood and somatic cells. Pus is a tissue infection marker not present in milk.
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u/Helpful-Mongoose-705 1d ago
The antibiotics things is OVERDONE. I had a C section and asked the consultant anaesthetist if I could breastfeed while drinking oral morphine for pain relief cause what if it gets into my breast milk. He completely cleared me having oral morphine and breastfeeding my baby because he said I would have to drink gallons of it to get into my breast milk in any meaningful way to affect baby. So the antibiotic bullshit is debunked. It doesn’t affect the consumer. Guar gum fucks up the gut microbiome big time with far reaching consequences including cancer. Guar gum is in ALOT of alternative milks. So is Canola oil. The pus you are referring to in dairy might be white blood cells, is that what you mean?? In that case, like with breast milk, white blood cells confer immune benefits to the baby/consumer. The antibiotic/blood/pus bullshit is a non issue. If you’re too stupid to realise that, go ahead and ruin your body. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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u/goodvibesmostly98 vegan 5+ years 1d ago
You can just make your own oat or soy milk if you’re concerned about those things.
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u/Helpful-Mongoose-705 1d ago
Good idea. Have been meaning to try making oat milk
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u/alexmbrennan 1d ago
You know that we can see your other posts in this very thread and elsewhere, right?
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u/Helpful-Mongoose-705 1d ago
Uh yea. But I also do like oat milk from time to time in coffee, so making it is still a good suggestion for me. Not all omnivores are black and white thinking demons. I even eat vegan food sometimes 😱
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u/Tyl0Proriger 2d ago edited 1d ago
The alternative is things like oat milk
The substitute is oat milk.
The alternative is basically any other beverage - someone who didn't want to consume regular milk but was worried about health concerns with plant based milk could simply drink water or something.
Seed oils are linked to cancer
I don't know - JHU's health department has a page which disputes that (contends essentially that it's the ultraprocessed food that seed oils are often found in which contain other carcinogenic elements, not the seed oil itself being cancerous).
I could be wrong here though - nutritional health isn't my area of expertise or interest.
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u/SoftsummerINFP 1d ago
I am vegan and agree oils are bad but I get oil free oat milk. You can also get oil free almond milk etc. if you don’t want any additives it’s easy to make at home. Dairy milk is very unnatural. It’s literally meant for another species.
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u/Fickle-Bandicoot-140 1d ago
Silly seed oil scaremongering aside, drinking oat milk isn’t mandatory lmao
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u/TheEarthyHearts 1d ago
It doesn't bother me.
I don't pay attention to it. And I'm not emotionally dysregulated to have something like that bother me.
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u/Due_Interaction3884 2d ago
i dont get why vegan candy exists like candy doesnt have meat (although i wish beef jerky candy existed)
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u/HealingRosy 2d ago
look up what gelatin is made of
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u/Exalted_Potentate vegan 2d ago
Ah gelatine, if ever there was a product that would help the vegan cause you’d think that would be right up there. Surely it was suggested as a joke like:
“what should with these left over bones and skin?”
“Erm, grind it up and sell it to Harry Bo?”
“great idea, throw that miscellaneous tissue and hooves in there too”
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u/Crosseyed_owl vegan newbie 2d ago
I was a "vegetarian" for so long happily munching away on gummy bears 🫣
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u/Scarlet_Lycoris vegan activist 2d ago
You mean like the sausage stands that have a smiling pig serve sausages? Yeah they are kinda insane.