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Heartstone Sanctuary faces an urgent crisis. Please donate.

(I'm not the original poster, I'm sharing it. Feel free to repost this wherever.)

To comply legally and ensure the safety of their large, strong rescue residents - most of whom outlive typical farm cows because most cows don’t live to 25 since most are slaughtered between a few moments old and 5 years old.

Their infrastructure must be built from scratch. Standard equipment is inadequate for animals over 1,000kg. Due to unfinished work and limited donor support, they face a strict deadline to create a specialised handling area. Sadly the rescued cows will be “seized and terminated” if the regs don’t comply within the deadline.

Immediate needs:

• Safety: a customised, steel-reinforced handling system for veterinary care and health checks.

• Repairs: finishing the main shed roof for safety and weatherproofing.

• Welfare: installing automatic drinkers to meet updated regulations.

How to help:

• Donations: every pound directly supports specialised labour and construction.

• Sharing: spread the word to attract donors or tradespeople. Post, reshare, and amplify their cause.

Let’s save these beautiful cows together.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYXI09GDesl/

https://donorbox.org/keep-heartstone-sanctuary-alive

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u/Ninja_zard — 13 hours ago
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Functional medicine suggestion making me anxious

Hi everyone. I’m in such a predicament. I’ve been vegan for the animals for 7 years now and I’ve recently become chronically ill within the last year. Turns out I have Lyme and co infections, elhers danlos and dysautonomia.

I was talking to a functional doctor on the phone as an option for holistic approaches whilst taking the antibiotics and she said I need to consider animal products. I said I definitely wouldn’t eat meat or touch dairy, but she was asking me to consider fish oil as its healing for the brain (I have neuro symptoms significantly).

I feel sick at the thought of using a fish for my healing. It makes me genuinely so sad to even consider consuming that, equally I know I’m sick and been pretty much housebound for over a year. I feel selfish for even having a slight curiosity on how it might help.

Idk. What do you guys think? I have vegan omega 3 but she explained it takes twice as much to help brain health as fish does. I’m so stressed about this. I don’t want to consume an animal but I also need to heal.

(I highly doubt I’ll take anything animal related btw, my heart is w the animals.)

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u/Spookyremy420 — 1 day ago
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TIL: Australia also has ticks that cause alpha-gal syndrome

https://www.smh.com.au/national/jeremy-16-died-from-a-tick-induced-meat-allergy-sydney-s-north-is-a-global-hotspot-for-the-disease-20260428-p5zrkj.html

>In February the NSW Deputy Coroner agreed, and concluded that Jeremy’s cause of death was not asthma but anaphylaxis due to Mammalian Meat Allergy, which is caused by ticks and triggers a reaction to red meat, pork or any other product from a mammal.

>Sydney’s northern beaches and the Central Coast have become global hotspots for the disease, which Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, warns is on the rise and a “significant health concern”.

>The link between Mammalian Meat Allergy and the Eastern Paralysis tick was discovered by immunologist and allergy physician Professor Sheryl Van Nunen in 2007, after dozens of patients on the northern beaches began presenting with life-threatening allergic reactions in the middle of the night.

>Using the contents from their last meal, she did a skin test and found a reaction to mammalian meat or a derived product. She also discovered her patients had something else in common – bites from the Eastern Paralysis tick.

>“So I’m thinking if the ticks are a parasite and the people have developed the meat allergy that hasn’t been happening in the last 20 years I’ve been here, then clearly there’s something new going on,” she told 60 Minutes (which is broadcast by Nine, the owner of this masthead).

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>MMA, though rare, is on the rise. A soon-to-be published report by the CSIRO for the first time documents the number of cases of the condition in Australia and maps hotspots along the east coast.

>Dr Alex Gofton, the study lead, said the findings were a significant health concern. “There’s over 5000 people living with this condition,” he said. “We also found that, unfortunately, case numbers are on the rise. Since 2020, case numbers have increased 22 per cent year-on-year, which is a really concerning trend.”

u/dumnezero — 1 day ago
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Engaging in good faith with carnists

I was wondering if anyone here had any thoughts on this. I rarely actually debate with carnists anymore - I’ve been vegan for 11 years now and I find it generally depressing to do so.

However there has been a great moral panic amongst the left/liberals about generative AI (I don’t like AI either, but that’s neither here nor there).

I contributed to the discussion by merely pointing out that animal agriculture is in fact worse than AI.

Had someone comment that nut milk was as bad for the Earth as AI. I asked for a source, they mocked me and implied it was common knowledge.

I responded with all the typical stuff about plant milk vs cows milk, the person said they didn’t know what I thought I had proved by sharing that info.

I asked for a source for their original claim again, to which they just laughed reacted lmao.

What animates this level of bad faith-ness? Are people really this detached from thinking? How can people look facts and data straight in the face and say “no that’s not for me, thank you.”

Genuinely feeling pretty alone in this crappy world all over again. And none of this is new to me.

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u/Androgyne69 — 1 day ago