Looking closer at the survey, that’s maybe true for the calf separation question, but the first question about impregnation is more straightforward

Before taking this survey, were you aware that dairy cows are impregnated annually to enable milk production?

Yes, I was aware [48%]

No, I wasn’t aware [52%]

https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Copy_of_Results_for_Animal_Justice_Project_Animal_Justice_44_27.1.2025.pdf

(Removed my highlighting of bit about calf separation from the body because that question wording is a little poor)

Pro tip: if you change the x.com to xcancel.com you can make the link use a twitter mirror and not give Musk revenue if people click on the link

Let’s make it drop further. There are Tesla Takedown protests in Europe too! It’s growing both within the US and outside of it

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Harris had the majority in both of the cities I listed. 59% of Dallas county (which includes much more than the city of Dallas) voted for Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas

80% of St Louis city voted for Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Missouri

Nor is it a super majority either state overall. 56% of Texas went for Trump, and 58% of Missouri

There are millions who voted against this. Don’t condemn them all

There have been protests for those too. Media coverage of protests has been severely limited making you think fewer people have been fighting back than they have. Here’s one in Dallas

Here’s another in St. Louis

There have even been people protesting ICE during their raids and doing things like loudly telling people around ICE is there and about their constitutional rights. It’s been effective enough that ICE has been complaining about how they are below targets

The USPS unions organized these protests against the entire USPS being dismantled. Sounds kind of like a thing unions should do. Privitizing it is way worse than just affecting “junk mail”

In various parts of the country USPS is the only place that will deliver mail to people because it’s unprofitable to do so. Zero mail service nearby affects a lot. For instance, need medications delivered, you may lose that option

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For anyone who is a US Citizen living abroad, here is one site some resources for how to vote abroad

https://usvotersabroad.org/

I should also note that with local & statewide elections, the next elections you can vote in may be sooner than you think. You don’t have to wait for the midterms. There have been 61 elections since January across the US in just this year and many more scheduled. They typically get less attention but still have tons of impact

https://ballotpedia.org/Elections_calendar

It is worth noting that other types of materials are regularly recycled fairly well

For instance, paper and carboard (as long as it’s without food grease) work well

Also worth noting that #1 and #2 plastics are usually recycled. #3 and above are typically not economically viable and thus not recycled. They have higher cost and produce lower quality plastics after recyling

There was a time when China had such high raw demand for plastics that they would recycle large amounts of the higher number plastics from other countries. They no longer do so

These distinctions are typically not expressed to people very well. In any case, recycling is supposed to be the thing that comes after trying to reduce waste and reuse waste. It’s not a magical bullet, but it can help with the things you can’t easily reduce or reuse. Somehow it became the focal point of everything and the other two got lost

Call your senators and tell them to vote no

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

(if dems, also tell them to push for replacing minority senate leadership)

Call your house reps and tell them to vote no

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Make them feel the pressure keep building. Calls are just step one to build that pressure, protests in person, etc.

Glad to hear my posts are going noticed. Indeed, there are lot more than you might think. I’ll repost one of my long comments with details about protests here. Wrote this five days ago so mentally subtract 5 days from all the times

They are being suppressed in media coverage, but there are people protesting. Media coverage paints a false picture that no one in the US is fighting back

Here’s one from today [meaning five days ago] with 1000 people in Boise, Idaho

Here’s a super incomplete timeline with just a handful of the nationwide protests. I’m missing a lot, I’m just showing your the photos I had from recent memory

8 days ago there were national protest for science funding cuts. Here’s the main one in DC

11 days ago there were nationwide protests in all 50 US state capitols + DC + Many cities within those states. This was part of the 50501 movement

Portland, Oregon

Monroe, Wisconsin

San Fransisco, California

Albany, New York

Raleigh, North Carolina

Richmond, Virginia

Austin, Texas

Protests Outside Fox News in New York City

16 days ago there were large protest in the Iowa Statehouse

19 days ago, a protest in Cherry Hill, New Jersy outside Tesla Showroom as part of a nationwide movement protesting Telsas. There have been tons more than just this one and these happen basically every day

21 days ago, large protests in DC for Ukraine aid

And so on. There’s a lot more going on than just this

Nice! There’s a bunch of vegan communities on lemmy to check out too

Both for general info and also things like recipes

!homecooks@vegantheoryclub.org

!veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works

!vegan@lemmy.ml

!vegan@lemmy.world

!vegan@slrpnk.net

https://www.teslatakedown.com/

Make the share prices fall further

He’s aware of it at least per the article

“Crazy,” wrote Musk on his social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), in response to a video of Premier David Eby speaking to the rebate ban.

We can still fight back on the state level. States and local levels will lead the way for progress here

California got a state law to enforce net neutrality in 2018. This is a good part of what limited the damage of Trump overturning it the first time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Internet_Consumer_Protection_and_Net_Neutrality_Act_of_2018

I get the idea of wanting to stick it to the US, but it’s maybe not the largest source of pride when you consider what the industry looks like. Being slightly less bad than the US is not a high bar. It’s still quite horrifying

Intensive farming is the predominant method of producing meat, dairy products and eggs in Europe and elsewhere in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/23/long-shadow-life-under-the-veiled-grasp-of-factory-farming-in-europe

In the EU, over 300 million animals spend all, or a significant part, of their lives imprisoned in cages – from sows in farrowing crates to egg-laying hens in so-called ‘enriched’ cages.

[…]

While the EU ban on the use of barren battery cages came into force in 2012, nearly half of commercial egg-laying hens are still kept in so-called ‘enriched’ cages. Additionally breeding flocks and chicks are also caged, often in barren cages.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/231961/‘End the Cage Age’ report, October 2020.pdf

90% the things Trump suggests are not something he actually does. The trouble is you’re never sure which 10% are what he will do

He floods the zone with so much intentionally that it all looks like noise. Don’t get twisted by it all. It’s designed to make you numb and assume he is more powerful than he is. He’s done that this term and he did it during his first term

Follow his direct actions more than his words. Based on actions, I’d actually be a bit more alarmed for Panama invasion than Canada right now. He directed military to create plans for that. Watch it more closely

Protests flow in waves. After Trump was removed from office in 2020, it lost a lot of energy. The protests in his first term did successfully getting voted out of office and limited the damage. Now it’s growing again after a period of stagnation

Look at the AFD protests and you’ll see they too also died down and then started growing again

I think you mistake what I am saying. I am not saying their shouldn’t be larger numbers. I am telling you why it has been difficult to get those back again. But the movement is starting to grow again. Comparisons to the crescendos of other movements isn’t helpful to understand what it takes to make that happen

Yes, it’s not new which is also why protestors are burnt out. There were millions protesting across the US during his first term and that movement did work - it lead to him getting voted out in 2020 and limited his damage to be less than it was this time around

But five year have now passed between him getting voted out of office and so the movement against him lost energy. It has to be re-build essentially. Now people are much more cynical after he was re-elected. The 1st time people were absolutely pissed about him getting elected. No one like him had in their lifetimes. But now, it’s no longer “how could this happen?”, but “this is happening again”. That’s a much harder starting point for a movement - one with less hope

Plus, the US media environment is actively worse - making the news about pushback harder to find. The protest aren’t covered anything close to as much as they were in 2017. The US media is now much more concentrated in billionaire control than it was in 2017. Since then Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and made changes, CNN’s new billionaire owner John Malone has shifted coverage, Elon Musk bought twitter, billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the LA Times and blocked endorsements of Harris, and so on

There has been plenty more resistance that aren’t just protests right now too. For instance, in the courts with more success in getting him to stop things than you otherwise might think. Yes, he has been somewhat ignoring the courts, but mostly following them and they are blocking a lot. Hundreds of lawsuits are ongoing, many of which were filed on day 1 of his 2nd term. Here’s one tracker

There has also been more resistance from state and local governments too - at least ones where Democrats have control. States and cities have a fair amount of power in the US. For instance, many have been blocking collaboration with ICE using local police and such (which slows the federal government down a lot)

I think you misunderstand what I am saying. Once a movement has grown it can organize things more quickly, but you’re looking at things at way too short of a time scale here.

I assume you are referring to the recent protests in Germany based on your description. There were already growing protests of the AFD in Germany well before the CDU/CSU’s actions. That large protest wasn’t the first at all. There were protests growing earlier in 2025 and even some smaller ones going back to Jan 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024–2025_German_anti-extremism_protests

The fact that things are declining at such speed in a weird way makes getting protests spread harder. It’s a lot easier to unify around a single bad thing than five thousand things. Nothing feels shocking in that environment. Keep in mind that Trump’s strategy is to flood the zone with so many bad things it’s hard for anything to break through the noise. It’s designed to make people so numb they don’t think they can do anything. It takes time to remind people they can

Especially with the online social media environment in the US repeatedly telling Americans that no one is fighting back. Comments like “we’re cooked”, “why is no one doing anything”, “where are the people protesting”, etc. have more of a negative impact than you would think