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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6m

🐠 Many never make it. The journey itself kills countless individuals through stress, injury, and suffocation. Those who survive spend the rest of their lives in a fraction of the space they once roamed, deprived of natural light and social bonds.

🛑 End the aquarium trade.
No customers, no market.

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6m

🪸 You see them everywhere. In restaurants, living rooms, hotel lobbies, and waiting rooms... But what you’re looking at is displacement.
These animals were taken from the wild, ripped from coral reefs thousands of kilometres away, flown across continents, and forced into confinement. 🧵

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 23h

🚨 Urge Carden Circus to send Betty, Janice and all the other animals it exploits to reputable sanctuaries

This Elephant Needs Urgent Help | PETA

She’s spent more than five decades in chains. Now, she’s on the brink of a fatal collapse. Here’s what we’re doing to help the “most depressed elephant in the world.”

peta.vg

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 23h

🚫🎪🐘 Nashville activists encouraged circus goers to boycott the circus where animals suffer for rides and meaningless tricks. Betty is dragged from city to city by Carden Circus despite her stiff, painful legs, open cracks in her nails and a dragging trunk.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

Whose land are you on? 🏞

Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

native-land.ca

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous peoples continue to lead in defending land, water & biodiversity. Their stewardship is not a past relic; it’s a living practice essential to a just & sustainable future.

Challenge the myths that uphold systems of exploitation — justice for people & justice for wildlife are inseparable.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

#IndigenousPeoplesDay
𓅂𖧶↟𖠰˚☀︎ᨒ↟𖠰𓆲 A day to honor the histories, cultures & leadership of Indigenous peoples who have stewarded the lands & waters of North America since time immemorial.

🎥 @wildlifeforall.bsky.social

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 1d

Taking an animal's life for sport is just killing for fun without giving moral consideration to the victim. It's psychotic behavior. Choose compassion 🦌

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 2d

This is part of a broader pattern of police deference to the meat industry in preventing media access, citing concerns about animal rights activists. #EndAnimalAg

Police Bodycams Reveal Pattern of Deference to Meat Industry

State troopers cited concerns about animal rights activists as justification for blocking journalists from livestock crash sites.

sentientmedia.org

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 2d

🐷 When a semi-truck hauling 1,900 piglets crashed, a livestock farmer approached the Ohio State Highway Patrol to ask a favor: direct the media to stop filming before the emergency crew unloads the dead piglets from the trailer. 🚛

🎥 @sentientmedia.org

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 TAKE ACTION: Don't let pigs suffer - contact your federal representative TODAY and urge them to cosponsor The Pigs and Public Health Act (H.R. 4757) 🐷

➡️ aldf.org/article/support-the-pigs-and-public-health-act/

#endanimalag #animalliberation

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 3d

Don't make #Halloween scary for animals. Be mindful of wildlife when decorating the outside of your house for Halloween. 🕸🎃🦉

Make Halloween animal-friendly
▶️ idausa.org/campaign/guardian/latest-news/halloween-animal-safety-tips

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 3d

🐔 Vegan eggs don’t harm chickens or contain cholesterol. 🌱

😋 Try this mung bean egg recipe
👉🏽 theedgyveg.com/mung-bean-egg-recipe

#worldeggday #eggswaps #veganeggs #endanimalag #henstagram #vegan

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 3d

#WorldEggDay
This extreme overproduction, called 'hyperovulation', is caused by selective breeding, artificial lighting & high-protein feed—pushing hens' bodies to exhaustion. Cage-free, free-range & organic eggs all come from hens bred for this unnatural cycle.⁠
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Ditch eggs 🐔

🎥 @egg-truth.com

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

Read more about the grim reality of the egg industry on our blog

#endanimalag #eggindustry #eggs #eggskill #animalliberation #livevegan

The Grim Reality of The Egg Industry

When we truly think about the consumption of dead bodies and animal secretions, it's really gross. Due to our societal conditioning, we rarely give eating animals a thought. Just the mention of abando...

nashvilleanimaladvocacy.org

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

#WorldEggDay 🐣
This is what the egg industry doesn't want you to see 💔👀

Instead of supporting selectively bred hens to unnaturally lay 300+ eggs a year, macerated day old chicks, debeaked chicks & confined hens in torturous conditions before being killed, switch to plant-based egg substitutes.🌱

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

Join us to speak up for animals abused in the Carden Circus 🎪 🐘🐪

🗓 Sat, Oct 11, 10:30am
🗓 Sat, Oct 11, 4:30pm
🗓 Sun, Oct 12, 1:30pm
📍 Nashville Municipal Auditorium
➡️ facebook.com/share/1BRqpwwMQ3/

#circusprotest #notyourride #animalliberation #boycottthecircus

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

🌎 Animal agriculture is also devastating the planet. It’s responsible for a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions.
➡️ ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 4d

🐓 Animals killed for food suffer immensely. 70% of farmed animals globally are factory farmed - 99% in the US. Factory farmed animals are crammed in sheds & cages & often never go outside. They are prematurely slaughtered against their will.
➡️ ourworldindata.org/search?q=animal%20agriculture%20

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 5d

🐆 Rescuers in Brazil pulled an injured jaguar from the Rio Negro after finding the feline struggling to stay afloat with gunshot wounds. The big cat is now receiving care from wildlife specialists.❤️‍🩹

Did you know jaguars are often hunted and killed by cattle ranchers to protect their profits?

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

🐙 #WorldOctopusDay
Same as all animals, octopuses are sentient beings with the ability to suffer. It is our obligation to avoid harming octopuses by the fishing industry, pollution and climate change.

🚨 TAKE ACTION to ban octopus farming in the US ➡️ aldf.org/project/octopus-act-federal/

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Speak up for grizzlies. Contact your members of Congress and tell them to oppose any attempt to weaken the Endangered Species Act or delist grizzlies.
➡️ bearsbelong.com

#grizzlybears #endangeredspecies #protectwildlife #conservation

Bears Belong

bearsbelong.com

Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

🐻 Grizzlies are dying at record rates in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem — and politicians are still trying to strip their federal protections.

⚠️ These bears are already squeezed by climate-driven food shortages, expanding human activity, and a system that too often treats wildlife as expendable.

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

Make your windows safer by adding simple bird-friendly treatments that prevent deadly collisions. Each year, more than a billion birds are lost to glass strikes. Learn effective and inexpensive ways to protect birds as they migrate south ➡️ stopbirdcollisions.org
🔄 @cornellbirds.bsky.social

Stop Bird Collisions

Birds flying into windows, railings, balusters, and other structures made from glass is a leading cause of global bird loss.

stopbirdcollisions.org

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Nashville Animal Advocacy @nashvegans.bsky.social · 6d

🐦 Migration Alert!

MILLIONS of birds are forecasted to take flight across the eastern Midwest over the next few days. Help keep them safe by turning off all nonessential lights between 11pm - 6am. Bright lights can disorient migrating birds.

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