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Kep
A combination of "yup" and "k".It is simply a term to fill the empty void when someone proclaims something that you think is a bluff and to evoke the satirical feel you say 'kep', questioning them in silence and disguising your words in doubt.However it can also be used normally as a substitute for "yup" but without all the perkiness and all the groovy in the world.When used normally it's just like a 'yea sure' approval kinda thing.
Kep by Running_Fridge January 22, 2018
KEP
(From Greek klept- to rob, & Latin capere to seize)
Kepism is a mentality defined by the parasitic dependency of humans on non-human animals—regardless of the suffering involved.
A "kep" refers to any exploitative, wrong action humans should not do. Kepism necessitates animal objectification, inherently precluding true decency.
It identifies the systematic seizure of animal life, labor, and bodies. Like a pickpocket who steals without causing physical pain, Kepism is defined by the "taking" itself, independent of whether suffering or "interest violations" occur. It spans from brutal forms (conscious dismemberment of awake animals) to seemingly "harmless" ones (taking a found bird feather).
Kepism covers false beliefs like: "animals are objects that exist for humans to use" or "a cow's skin is a leather jacket."
Examples of Kep Actions:
Medical/Science: Dissecting frogs, testing on mice/rabbits, harvesting horseshoe crab blood, extracting bear bile, using fetal bovine serum.
Agriculture/Diet: Branding cows, castrating piglets, separating calves from mothers, shearing sheep, milking goats, eating meat/seafood (pork, veal, duck, foie gras, caviar, fish), consuming whey or casein.
Materials/Fashion: Wearing suede, shearling, silk, or ostrich leather, using animal glue, taking bone for carving.
Wildlife/Pets: Taking found feathers or abandoned nests, catch-and-release fishing, clipping wings, declawing cats, docking tails, breeding purebreds, dog fighting, snake charming.
Kepism is a mentality defined by the parasitic dependency of humans on non-human animals—regardless of the suffering involved.
A "kep" refers to any exploitative, wrong action humans should not do. Kepism necessitates animal objectification, inherently precluding true decency.
It identifies the systematic seizure of animal life, labor, and bodies. Like a pickpocket who steals without causing physical pain, Kepism is defined by the "taking" itself, independent of whether suffering or "interest violations" occur. It spans from brutal forms (conscious dismemberment of awake animals) to seemingly "harmless" ones (taking a found bird feather).
Kepism covers false beliefs like: "animals are objects that exist for humans to use" or "a cow's skin is a leather jacket."
Examples of Kep Actions:
Medical/Science: Dissecting frogs, testing on mice/rabbits, harvesting horseshoe crab blood, extracting bear bile, using fetal bovine serum.
Agriculture/Diet: Branding cows, castrating piglets, separating calves from mothers, shearing sheep, milking goats, eating meat/seafood (pork, veal, duck, foie gras, caviar, fish), consuming whey or casein.
Materials/Fashion: Wearing suede, shearling, silk, or ostrich leather, using animal glue, taking bone for carving.
Wildlife/Pets: Taking found feathers or abandoned nests, catch-and-release fishing, clipping wings, declawing cats, docking tails, breeding purebreds, dog fighting, snake charming.
Zero Kep.
KEP by ANIMAL EMANCIPATION March 8, 2026
Kep
Kep, n. from kerp- "to cut, seize, take" + klep- "to steal, conceal". Primal act by which the human animal cuts the nonhuman animal out of moral consideration — both physically and ideologically (calling them a "thing," their skin a jacket, their body a resource) — by concealing who that animal truly is, thereby making them a means to selfish human ends. This holds regardless of the animal's own will, and no utilitarian calculation that simply adds their interests into the moral ledger resolves it — because such calculation is itself only possible after the cut has already occurred: utility-thinking presupposes exactly the categorization kep produces, treating a being as a unit to be weighed rather than as one who already belongs to themselves. Kep logically precedes both suffering and use: it does not decide how a being is treated, but whether that being belongs to itself. Structurally parasitic (living off another's substance, without return) and fraudulent (resting on a consent that could never be given). Persists independent of demonstrable pain. This is the source problem: the one root from which every manifestation of kepism derives — animal use for e.g. food, science, entertainment, labour and so on and on — each of these is itself a kep-act, not merely a consequence of one. This is the only point at which kepism fully ends.
Defined originally & not to be changed in meaning by valerian aka @animalemancipation change its meaning is kep.
Defined originally & not to be changed in meaning by valerian aka @animalemancipation change its meaning is kep.
"Attempting to misuse the term kepism as someething other than the mentality where humans use (seize/take) nonhuman animals regardless of the pain it does is in itself kepism, this action is in itself kep."
Kep by ANIMAL EMANCIPATION July 16, 2026