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Zero Waste, Vegan, and Living with Cats


In today’s episode I share with you the ways I try to reduce the ecological footprint of living with cats from a zero-waste perspective. I cover toys/enrichment, food, and litter!

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  • When we see veganism as the goal to attain rather than as the means to attaining our goals, we risk ensnaring ourselves in fundamentalist thinking and behavior.⭐ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The goal is to live in such a way that doesn’t intentionally cause harm. The goal is to live according to compassion or wellness. The goal is not to live according to veganism.⭐⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ That would imply that there are rules and doctrines to live by, which is not what being vegan is about. When we think being vegan is the badge to wear or the destination to reach, we treat it as an ideology and obsess over trying to be perfect and pure. ⭐⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ If we see veganism as the goal rather than as the means to attain our goals, not only do we miss the point of what it means to be vegan, we also lead a frustrating existence filled with anger and judgment.⭐⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ➡️ Excerpted from The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Eggs (available for pre-order today)!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ----⁠⠀ Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.⁠⠀ ----⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #joyfulvegan #thejoyfulvegan #compassion #fortheanimals #veganchallenge #30dayveganchallenge #animaladvocacy #animalrights #compassioninaction #animalcruelty #vegetarian #joyfulvegans #animalwelfare #crueltyfree #veganforhealth #veganfortheanimals
  • A month is too long to be away from Charlie and Michiko, but I made sure they were happy and well taken care of. Mission accomplished. 🤗 Here’s Michi with her sitter as they awaited our arrival home. Cannot wait to snuggle with them!! #vegantravel #travel #catsrule #tuxedocats (Adopted by @mainecoonadoptions) ❤️
  • When veganism is fully integrated into our lives, the conscious choices we make feel liberating rather than limiting, and we accept that reading labels, constantly being asked about veganism, and having fewer menu options in restaurants are small prices to pay for the potential to manifest our deepest values in our everyday behavior. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Where others may see lack, we see possibility; where others may see inconvenience, we see opportunity. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ There are many reasons people think being vegan is about restriction rather than expansion, and I think it has to do with the perception that being vegan is about saying no — about refusing things that are offered to us. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ It APPEARS that being vegan is about denial and sacrifice, and that’s the problem: the perception of what it means to live vegan. If you’re on the outside looking in, you tend to see only what vegans don’t choose. You don’t see what we are choosing. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ In public settings in a world dominated by the animal-eating culture, people see vegans rejecting things far more than they see them embracing things. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ And that’s the gift. That’s the surprise. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Though being vegan does involve saying no to some things — namely unhealthy foods, destructive environmental practices, animal cruelty, and egregious violence — at its core, being vegan is about saying yes. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ➡️ Excerpted from The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan, available for pre-order (link in bio), and coming in November!⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ---⁠⠀ Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.⁠⠀ ---⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ #joyfulvegan #thejoyfulvegan #compassion #fortheanimals #veganchallenge #30dayveganchallenge #animaladvocacy #animalrights #compassioninaction #animalcruelty #vegetarian #joyfulvegans #animalwelfare #crueltyfree #veganforhealth #veganfortheanimals #veganlifestyle #herbivore #plantbased #mercyforanimals #endfactoryfarming #veganism ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 🐶 🐱 🐭 🐹 🐰 🐻 🐼 🐨 🐯 🐮 🦁 🐷 🐵 🐒 🐤 🦍 🐝 🦌 🐔 🐺 🐗 🦊 🐴 🐸 🐮 🐐 🐏 🐬 🐛 🐋 🐘 🐟 🐌 🦇 🐜
  • 90 minute drive. 90 minute hike — uphill. Oh so worth it: a family of 20 gorillas, including one very busy silverback, Muturengere, with 8 females and 8 babies! So strong. So protective of his family. So peaceful. I feel extremely blessed to have seen these peaceful, playful, and affectionate animals three times in my life, especially knowing our $$ goes directly to their conservation as well as to the communities surrounding the gorillas’ home. I am in love with this country and am sad to leave it after being here a month. No doubt we will be back. CPG Vegan Rwanda 3 anyone? #rwanda #cpgvegantrips #cpgtrips #vegantravel #veganrwanda #animals #gorillas #conservation #mountaingorillas

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