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Anette for Animals

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Vegan activism & animal photography by @anettelee_
in defence of subjecthood in an objectifying world.

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Here are some of the things I want non-vegans to hear!
I had creative fun making this 🤭🩷

What are your thoughts? Which slide resonates with you the most? What would you change? ⚖️🦉

#veganactivist #animalrights #solidarity #animalliberation #leftwing by @saintofstrays

Most people see a moral divide between humans and other animals. The phrases: “because they’re animals.” and “because we’re human.” are expressions of that deeply ingrained belief.

The problem is that neither statement actually justifies anything.

When non-vegans are asked why it is acceptable to exploit other animals, they often end up repeating the very distinction they are trying to defend:

“It’s not a moral obligation to be vegan because they’re animals.”
Why does being an animal justify exploitation?
“Because they’re animals.”

The conversation becomes circular because the conclusion is already built into the premise. The distinction itself is also false. Humans are animals too.

More importantly, “human” and “animal” are categories, not justifications. Such descriptive facts have no bearing on morality, just as how “woman” and “man” are categories rather than moral justifications. Simply belonging to one category or another does not determine someone’s moral worth.

To justify exploiting other animals, one would need to identify a morally relevant trait that all humans possess and all other animals lack. Yet no such trait has ever been shown to justify treating sentient individuals as property, products, or resources.

And despite appealing to this supposed divide, most non-vegans do not even act consistently with it. They cherish some animals, while paying for the exploitation of others for eggs, dairy, flesh, fashion, entertainment, and cosmetics.

Just to be clear, the issue is not bigger cages or more “humane” ways of treating other animals. It’s ending animal use altogether. Veganism is the ethical principle that humans should live without exploiting other animals.

If species membership cannot justify exploitation, then human supremacy cannot justify exploitation either. And if exploitation cannot be justified, we should stop participating in it. We should live vegan, and more importantly, speak up for those who cannot defend themselves. 💚⚖️

#vegan #videoessay #animalethics #ethics #philosophy by @saintofstrays

Dismembered, beheaded chickens tied up and enclosed in a glass case beneath a storefront sign reading: “This is Dry Aged!”

To call this insulting would be a severe understatement.
While I stood there photographing them, the man handling the bodies opened the glass case and started pressing into their flesh, feeling around before selecting one body and carrying it into the kitchen. It created a feeling I can’t fully put into words. Watching him press into their skin felt strangely violating, as though he were doing the same thing to me.

I think the photos speak for themselves.

To commodify someone’s body. To stand over a murdered being and judge who looks the most “tender” or “plump,” as though their body only exists in relation to what we can take from it. Even the language of “quality” and desirability is just a function of usefulness to us, rooted in the assumption that their value lies in how well they can serve our selfish interests. There is something deeply perverted about reducing a once-living individual to texture, weight, and value for use. Lifeless bodies tied at the feet and stacked onto metal shelves like objects.

If you ask me, the mutilated individuals in these photographs do not look very different from human bodies. Though maybe that shouldn’t even matter. Suffering shouldn’t depend on resemblance.

But if you pay for this to happen, I hope you can imagine yourself in their position. Or have we become too emotionally detached from our victims to care?

#vegan #animalrightsactivist #photoactivism #animalliberation #animalphotographer by @saintofstrays

For now, we are here
chère compagnie éphémère
we meet while leaving

Currently between countries, awaiting flight - here’s a haiku inspired by the visitor who knows no human line

Excuse the iPhone shot xx by @saintofstrays

PHOTOS Part Three - O*nk protest with @animaljusticeproject

📷 by me (@saintofstrays)
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland

#protest #vegan #animalrights #veganactivism by @saintofstrays

PHOTOS Part Two - O*nk protest with @animaljusticeproject

📷 by me (@saintofstrays)
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland

#protest #vegan #animalrights #veganactivism by @saintofstrays

PHOTOS Part One - O*nk protest with @animaljusticeproject

📷 by me (@saintofstrays)
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland

#protest #vegan #animalrights #veganactivism by @saintofstrays

WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT STAY SILENT WHILE INNOCENT INDIVIDUALS ARE SCREAMING FOR THEIR LIVES IN GAS CHAMBERS.

Their suffering should not be hidden from the public.

SHUT DOWN GAS CHAMBERS!

“HUMANE SLAUGHTER” IS A FAIRY TALE!

EVERYONE DESERVES TO KNOW THE TRUTH!🐷✊

@animaljusticeproject @veganactivistforum

📸 @saintofstrays @bart__va @whjphoto by @saintofstrays

HUMANE SLAUGHTER IS A LIE, ANIMALS DO NOT WANT TO DIE. #TurnOffTheGas 🐷

It’s 2026. If you still continue to exploit other animals, what the hell are you doing? LIVE VEGAN. Shut these oppressors down. PIGS’ LIVES BELONG TO THEM, NOT US. 🐖

With @animaljusticeproject

#animalrights #protest #activism #edinburgh by @saintofstrays

They laugh. The pigs scream.

Inside CO₂ gas chambers, pigs desperately struggle to breathe as carbon dioxide burns their eyes, noses and lungs from the inside.

Stop funding animal abuse. Live vegan.

#Vegan #AnimalRights #Speciesism #GoVegan #AnimalLiberation by @saintofstrays

Mum asked why I went vegan, and I said, “’Cause you didn’t raise no fool”

10 years of @vegancampout 2026 🤎🐾🥒 by @saintofstrays

Is religion an excuse not to be vegan? If your religion doesn’t tell you to exploit animals, then what is stopping you?

Event: @av_edinburgh
Activist: @bart__av
Camera: @saintofstrays

@veganactivistforum @anonymousforthevoiceless @av_unitedkingdom by @saintofstrays