IT'S VEGANUARY !!
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the best time of year to start giving a shit about non-human animals
"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment."
🐮 Cows deserve to live their full lifespan
🐷 Pigs deserve a life free from exploitation
🐔 Chickens deserve a life free from genetic manipulation
If you've got any basic questions or concerns about veganism, !vegan@hexbear.net has a megathread devoted to that sort of discussion!
Liberation for all animals!
- Animal Liberation
- The Death of Nature
- The Case for Animal Rights
- Anarchism and Animal Liberation
- Total Liberation
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk
- Speciesism as a Precondition to Justice
- Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
- Citations Needed on media portrayals of animal rights activists
- The Jungle
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*like @glimmer_twin says, https://veganuary.com for recipes and guides for how to try it out!
Why does living in the United States often feel like living in the world’s richest developing country? Like we’ve got all this tech and massive corporations, a bloated, over-equipped military, and obscene displays of wealth from our ruling class all set against a backdrop of abject poverty, piss-poor infrastructure, and completely embarrassing healthcare and educational systems, etc.? Like where the fuck did it all go wrong?
I can’t believe I ever bought into the whole “greatest country on earth” bullshit when I was younger.
settler-colonial nations are always two countries in one - the rich nation for settlers that's part of the imperial core and the colonized nation that must be kept under the boot, exploited like any other part of the global south.
This fucking website is even that way. That post from yesterday of the Venezuelan soldier women had two guys in it getting all creepy about it. I reported them but afaik the comments are still up.
https://hexbear.net/post/67450/comment/696365
https://hexbear.net/post/67450/comment/696187
Dudes are fucking lame, often. Someone once told me that you're most likely to be empathetic if you've personally experienced hardship and are therefore sensitive to what it's like to need consideration. I suppose the corollary is if you have a more privileged identity you're less likely to be empathetic.
Not saying dudes don't deserve criticism of course. And yes I'm done mansplaning sexism.
Indeed. Graeber has some good shit about this in The Utopia of Rules :
For example, in American situation comedies of the 1950s, there was a constant staple: jokes about the impossibility of understanding women. The jokes (told, of course, by men) always represented women’s logic as fundamentally alien and incomprehensible. “You have to love them,” the message always seemed to run, “but who can really understand how these creatures think?” One never had the impression the women in question had any trouble understanding men. The reason is obvious. Women had no choice but to understand men.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules#toc2
this is why i'm always entirely unironic about how much i love having the volcel police, or at least the persisting concept of it. like, the memes brought me in, but getting on to the sub and finding out that openly being horny would get you dunked on (even to the point that it was automated) was why i stuck around at first. it makes for a way less wierd enviroment.
so o7 to our boys in blue :volcel-vanguard:
Just had someone on r*ddit unironically tell me labor doesn't have power any more because boats exist now. Lmao.
To nobody's shock their a frequent /r/neoliberal poster.
wait but boats have existed for, like, literally tens of thousands of years at least
i dont understand
Their argument is that importing goods is cheaper than local labor, without thinking that maybe there's political and economic factors driving that.
It's a ignorant point from an even more ignorant person.
I just made fun of them for not knowing boats existed until recently.
And how do they think those cheap imported goods are made, if not labour, lol?
How do they think those goods miraculously travel and arrive and get sold to them? They must just magically teleport from a factory into a store which magically sells it to you and maintains itself with no human interaction.
It’s like Star Trek, you just say “iPhone” into a microwave looking thing and it appears.
Who made the microwave thing? I dunno, another microwave
you see, when a bird-microwave and a bee-microwave love each other very much, they utilize overlaping fields of electromagnetic radiation, in a special hug, causing intermolecular friction that spontaneously generates a tertiary microwave.
It's not even about what drives it or not, it's that humans in power have created transnational legal structures that encourage this sort of thing.
The US was already one of the richest countries in the world even when it had a far more isolationist way of doing things. It's really just that the political project around open world markets benefits incumbent power.
Ok chapos some tips for making beans taste better:
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beans can accept a lot of oil. Sometimes when you're making beans and you've seasoned then and added salt they will seem like they still need salt. 95% of the time they actually need oil. I've never sat down with a bowl of beans and thought I added too much oil. Oil is good for you despite what the cereal lobby might have convinced you, and if you're vegan chances are good you have a pretty low-fat diet. Throw some more olive oil in there.
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adding red wine fills out the flavour profile.
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adding leftover coffee from the morning with some molasses can be a great addition for any bean dish, and is cheap.
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you save so much money when you start soaking dry beans instead of canned, Plus they're lighter to carry home from the store.
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you don't have to have fancy recipes. One onion for every two tomatoes, some garlic, some spices and oil and you're good. Serve that over rice and feel good about yourself joining the masses of proletariat across the world breaking bread over beans and rice that night.
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Potatoes fucking rule, idk why anyone even wants to eat anything else tbh
The brits stole the potatoes of my ancestors so now I have to eat a varied diet.
Yea I agree 100% my spouse is a yam kinda gal but I'm a fan of the original spud.
Experimental archaeologists once ate a diet of nothing but potatoes seasoned with butter and salt. They came out healthier than they went in.
So anyways, I would like to study the diets of experimental archaeologists, because I have questions
350,000 dead, it hit 300,000 only two weeks ago....
It's a new world out there buckos :this-is-fine:
Anyone who disagree with me is a Silver Legion member trying to sow discord
Go vegan nerds, I just ate some fake bacon with toast and beans, shit was SO GOOD AND NOBODY DIED.
https://veganuary.com/ for recipes and guides for how to try it out!
What kind of fake bacon? I usually like using thin seitan and overcooking it so it's crispy or same deal but tempeh. Most store bought fake bacon I've tried has been pretty iffy.
There’s this one I got from an Asian grocery place, I’ll have to check the brand name when I get home. Fake meat stuff is always better and way cheaper from the asian places in my experience.
I have like six Asian grocery stores in walking distance and have yet to see fake meat at any. They are always better and cheaper for almost everything else though.
Here’s a whole book on libgen!
Or if that’s too much choice, try this one, it’s so good especially if it’s winter where you are atm
Sounds like perpertual stew. Your ancestors would be proud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_stew
My favorite is black bean soup.
Just dump carrots, onions, tomatoes, green peppers in the pot with some veggie stock and your soaked dried black beans. I like to chop everything and put beans out to soak the night before and then just dump it in the morning. Cook on low for 6-7 hours. For spices, smoked paprika, cumin, and oregano are all good. Chili powder is good, but for even more flavor you can grind up a whole dried chili of whatever type you like. Bay leaf is good in a lot of slow cooker recipes.
Optionally can blend some of it to give a creamy texture. Great served over rice or with some tortilla chips.
Take a whole damn cauliflower or as much as fits, add pineapple and the juice from it, olive oil, chick peas, garlic, some veggies (onion, carrots, beet or turnip all work well, even better if some are pickled). Soak that shit down in olive oil, add brown sugar, cumin, curry powder, bit of salt. Basically leave it on medium for like a whole damn day or until the cauliflower falls apart by itself, every once in a while take you oily sugar spice goo and poor it over and into the cauliflower. Serve on rice.
