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Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist arrested in Greenland | the co-founder of Greenpeace and alleged ecoterrorist was traveling to intercept Japanese whaling ship Kongei Maru
www.theguardian.com Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist arrested in GreenlandThe co-founder of Greenpeace will be taken to court where a decision will be made about his extradition to Japan, police say
- yt.artemislena.eu Veganism is incomplete without anti-capitalism, actually.
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I Heard the Wild Donkey Bray | Can donkeys gone feral in the Sonoran Desert help us think differently about killing "invasive" species?
I found these paragraphs, about killing invasive rats on small islands to protect local seabirds, particularly thought-provoking:
>For my own part, I wish the killing of those rats and mice were at least accompanied by a sense of what environmental ethicist Chelsea Batavia and ecologist Arian Wallach, a prominent compassionate conservationist who was Lundgren’s Ph.D. adviser, called “the moral residue of conservation.” It’s not the rodents’ fault that humans so heedlessly moved their ancestors around the globe; their appetite for seabird chicks would, if expressed by an acceptably native animal, be treated as an inevitable part of nature. To kill them, even for noble purposes, is to take innocent lives. “Conservationists should be emotionally responsive to the ethical terrain they traverse,” argued Batavia and Wallach in the journal Conservation Biology. “Feelings of grief are commensurate with acts of harm. Apathy or indifference is not.”
>In all my years of reading and writing about the killing of invasive species, I’ve yet to encounter an expression of grief. To Batavia and Wallach, this is troubling because those feelings “act as tethers to abiding notions of what is good and of value in the world.” To turn them off—Lundgren recalled a colleague who cried after euthanizing a native bird with a broken wing but killed nonnative birds with barely a change in expression—risks harming something important in ourselves. Callousness can only be maintained at the cost of compassion.
>Lundgren agreed with this. A casual attitude toward killing introduced species, he added, also made it easy to avoid less tractable but equally important problems, such as the overfishing that is now starving many seabirds. Moreover, even on islands, the impacts of nonnative species could be nuanced: An analysis of 300 Mediterranean islands containing both seabirds and invasive rats found that rats limited the abundance of only one seabird species, something the researchers called “an amazing conservation paradox.”
>“We don’t give any credit to evolution,” Lundgren said. Perhaps, over time, newly introduced and long-native species would surprise us with their ability to coexist. Perhaps in many places they already were coexisting—but the ease of killing so-called invasives, and the habits of mind that reinforced, made it hard to see. I fell asleep to such thoughts beneath a starscape that, in the dry desert air and the absence of human habitation for miles in every direction, was as clear as any I’d ever seen.
- grist.org Meet the jacked vegan strength athletes defying stereotypes
These powerlifters and strongmen are lifting heavier weights with a diet that's lighter on the planet.
- www.vegansociety.com Vegan Society manifesto urges policy makers to begin a transition to a plant-based food system
The Vegan Society has launched a Vegan Manifesto calling for a transformation of our food system.
> Plant-based proteins produce, on average, 70 times less greenhouse gas emissions than an equivalent amount of beef, and use more than 150 times less land [1], making them a significantly more climate friendly choice. [...] The benefits of a transition to a plant-based food system are not only environmental, with research from The Vegan Society earlier this year finding that every one million people who switch to a vegan diet would generate an estimated £121 million of health care cost savings [2].
> The society’s manifesto asks policy makers to follow the lead of countries such as Denmark and South Korea, who are taking advantage of the opportunities presented by plant-based diets with clear plans to boost the plant-based industry and begin the transition away from animal agriculture.
> In order for the UK to follow suit, the manifesto outlines clear steps that the future government can take to support a plant-based transition. These steps include recognising the need to promote plant-based diets and food as crucial to meet net zero targets, supporting animal farmers in a transition to plant-based crop farming and setting a target to reduce meat and dairy consumption by 70% by 2030.
> We’ve seen lots of progress towards plant-based alternatives and the United Kingdom is well placed to lead the world in the growth of the plant-based food and drink sector. More people than ever are open to changing their diets, but we need change on a bigger scale, so there is an urgent need for political leadership on this issue.”
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Palitana: World's First City to Ban Non-Vegetarian Food | Palitana, Gujarat, becomes the first city to prohibit the sale and consumption of non-vegetarian food, influenced by Jain principles
groundreport.in Palitana: World's First City to Ban Non-Vegetarian FoodPalitana, Gujarat, pioneers a historic ban on non-vegetarian food, rooted in Jain religious beliefs, sparking debate on cultural traditions and individual rights.
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Ramblings on an 8-year veganniversary
I got some bloodwork done recently and in the words of my physician my results were great. This news has put me in a good, affirming, and reflective mood about the journey so far.
Going vegan seemed like a big deal at first, when I considered it before taking the plunge (I was already vegetarian) and afterwards when learning to socialize around food with non-vegans, but after a couple years it's just become what I do. And it's not a big deal to me that my diet isn't the norm. I do live in a big cosmopolitan city, which definitely makes being vegan easier.
It took me a couple years before I clued into supplementing. PSA: If you're vegan, you should take a B12 supplement of some form. Supplementing other things isn't as important.
Just about my only frustration is the greater cost of prepared goods and sweets, which I privately dub the ‘vegan tax’ lol. Vegan donuts or ice cream are twice or thrice the price of their equivalents. That kind of thing. It add ups if you have a sweet tooth like me :P, although maybe the added financial cost has some health-related benefits related to number of donuts consumed per year, etc.
I've never thought about going back, as in eating animal products again. I do do a couple non-vegan things for cost reasons at the moment, like I buy jeans from Winners that have the leather patches on the rear that jeans are seemingly are obligated to bear. My cosmetics and bathroom products are probably not all vegan, although many are. I recently learned that my water-based sexual lubricant probably isn't vegan due to glycerin. That's a new frontier of learning for me :)
In the last couple years I’ve started only using the term vegan with other vegans, as a shorthand, or when I want to refer to the underlying philosophy. In everyday conversation I use "plant-based", as I don't want non-vegans to feel judged, because I think many feel judged simply by hearing the word regardless of my intent, and I ultimately think their feeling judged is counterproductive.
I think going vegan changed me a little in ways I didn't expect, like it generally made me a more critical thinking, conscientious, and compassionate person over time. If I could have cloned myself before I went vegan and compared two versions of me - with and without being vegan the last 8 years – I think the vegan me would score higher on a measure of anti-racism or anti-ableism or egalitarianism, know more about greenwashing, and be more critical of the effects of capitalism – just as examples. That’s just a guess. And I might be confusing cause and effect. As I understand it now, veganism is more central to my identity and worldview than practically anything.
To celebrate my veganniversary I think I might try to make my first vegan pizza! I’ve had delicious vegan pizzas before with vegan cheese, nooch, slices of potato, and pesto as a base versus tomato sauce. Other toppings as well, but I highlight those as I think they combine cheesiness, creaminess, and saltiness to approximate traditional pizza cheesiness quite desirably. Time for me to try making it on my own!
Thanks for listening to my rambles. Feel free to chime in with your own!
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Let Nature Play: A Possible Pathway of Total Liberation and Earth Restoration
theanarchistlibrary.org Let Nature PlayDan Fischer Let Nature Play A Possible Pathway of Total Liberation and Earth Restoration April 2022
>In short, this is a proposal for an abolition of compulsory work for all beings. It involves rewilding at least 75% of the Earth with guidance from local and Indigenous communities, and ensuring that the remainder of the planet “abolish[es] the wage system, and live[s] in harmony with the Earth” as proposed by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (2021).
- www.iflscience.com Your Excuses For Eating Meat Are Predictable And Wrong, Study Finds
Oof, right in the cognitive dissonance.
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the hippies knew what was up
From "Hey Beatnik! This is The Farm Book" - a visitor's guide from a commune in Tennessee in the 70s.
- www.vox.com Republicans want to put pigs back in tiny cages. Again.
House Republicans are working to make America's factory farms even crueler.
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Thickeners for cream pies
If anyone has a better idea for a title, this one’s a little iffy…
I found a new yogurt flavor (alpro lemon-lime) that tastes just like key lime pie to me. I’d like to make it into an actual pie, but it’s a bit too runny.
I’d prefer to avoid cooking the yogurt, so I figured corn starch, flour, and tapioca would all be out. I could do chia seeds, but I don’t necessarily want that texture.
Any ideas?
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How to get by as a vegan in a rural area
I live in a vast rural area in the central valley of California. Here, people are fanatical carnivores. There is very little vegan food and I live very far from where most of it is available and don't drive for many reasons many of them environmental. Getting there would require riding a bike in the heat most of the year and people here hate bicyclists. Delivery like doordash is really expensive and only the same two dashers will take my vegan order I've noticed.
Has anyone found any useful tips for this basic kind of situation that I'm driving at?
- truthout.org At Global Climate Talks, Food Systems Changes Are Kept Off the Table
At the G7 summit and the annual Bonn Climate Change Conference, talks glossed over big agriculture's climate impact.
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Habitat destruction for cattle grazing in the South Texas desert
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>In this episode we film more habitat destruction in South Texas, this time for the purposes of grazing cattle in a desert. > >Echinocereus enneacanthus, Coryphantha macromeris runyonii, Ancistrocactus scheeri and others are prevented from being destroyed in this act of senseless bulldozing. Ecotourism possibilities abound here due to the presence of numerous rare birds and cactus species and an abundance of winter texans that would happily pay to see and protect this land, but ranching and cattle are the convention here, and human beings rarely break with convention unless forced to by unforeseen circumstances which are sure to arrrive to the region, eventually.
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Some Reasons why People Suck - Hank Green
yt.artemislena.eu Some Reasons why People SuckIf you can believe it this video is cut down significantly from its original length. I have been feeling a lot of frustration lately at our inability to forgive ourselves at all. Like, we're good at forgiving friends, bad at forgiving strangers, but worst of all at forgiving humanity in total, and I...
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Climate-Friendly Food Guide
awellfedworld.org Climate Food Guide Flip Book & PDF - A Well-Fed WorldUse zoom and expand functions for better reading. Click here for single-page report version PDF Click here for double-page magazine version PDF
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16526178
> >Scientists and environmental organizations around the world urge a shift toward plant-based foods as one of the most impactful actions we can take to reduce climate destruction and improve our health. > > >That’s why we created the Climate-Friendly Food Guide to provide more details, recipes, tips, and resources. > > There's a PDF version there too.
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Plant-Based Companies Food Brand Guide
docs.google.com PBC Food Brand GuideSheet1 Hi! Sorry I've been away for so long! I needed a break from this project but I would really like to get back into it. I have been doing other activism and working on animal rescue IRL. If you want to see what I've been up to, please consider checking out my animal sanctuary at <a href="ht...
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Sounds like a cool new Lemmy instance.
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Actually existing intersectionality: The place-based and embodied politics of animal and human rights activism
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Critiques of intersectionality as an additive and simplistic model of understanding identity politics has led to calls for renewed concepts that better grasp the complexity and potential of shared struggle. In this article, we contend that the experiences of activists attempting to practice an intersectional human and animal rights politics are a crucial yet overlooked resource in the development of such conceptual imaginaries and ethical practice. Drawing on an historical case study conducted with activists involved in the 1990s anarchist collective ‘One Struggle’ in Israel/Palestine, we argue that an ethic of shared human and animal rights struggle cannot be separated from place-based and embodied politics. We show that activists cultivating intersectional politics in practice must negotiate affective forces of discomfort, alienation and exhaustion that wear down and constrain the potential for intersectional coalitions and joint struggles. These affects are generated through state disincentives, violence the cultural politics of nationalism and incommensurable differences. In this context, intersectional politics are a precarious achievement, dependent on the capacities of activists to continue to compromise and negotiate affectively charged encounters in everyday settings. To better capture the precarious, contingent and provisional nature of animal and human rights activism, we therefore propose the concept of ‘actually existing intersectionality’, illustrating how intersectionality is retheorised via emplaced, embodied activist practices. In so doing we make visible the work through which intersectional politics coheres through negotiation by actors in particular places and times.
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How green is fake meat, really? (It's pretty darn good) - Simon Clark
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- www.theguardian.com UN livestock emissions report seriously distorted our work, say experts
Exclusive: Study released at Cop28 misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academics
- www.theatlantic.com The Truth About Organic Milk
Cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms.
- theanarchistlibrary.org Animal Liberation is Climate Justice
Laura Schleifer & Dan Fischer Animal Liberation is Climate Justice Struggles and Strategies from Below Winter 2022
Original on New Politics, Winter 2022
>Although the UN released a special report two years ago stressing that one of the most effective ways to mitigate warming is a plant-based diet,[4] not one day of COP26 was devoted to the issue, in stark contrast to the time dedicated to energy, transport, and finance. Even as protests outside the conference called attention to this issue, the delegates inside ignored it. > >One reason cited for the omission was that addressing animal agriculture would unfairly target historically oppressed communities, continuing the Global North’s legacy of dominating and controlling those they’ve colonized.[5] While this may seem motivated by the noble impulse to be “sensitive” to colonial dynamics, the knowledge that these same imperialist nations’ delegates also removed from the conference’s concluding agreement the so-called Loss and Damages Finance Facility,[6] which mandated compensation be paid to poorer countries for climate damages, should put any uncertainty about their true motives to rest. This is just one manifestation of how the call for sensitivity toward oppressed groups is exploited by those most responsible for current crises in order to avoid making transformative changes within their own societies.[7] > >Unfortunately, the Western left bears some responsibility for this manipulative usage of political correctness, due both to its collective failure to reject the neoliberal exploitation of identity politics, and to its constant smearing of veganism and animal liberation as “middle class and white.”[8] While it’s certainly true that vegan and animal advocacy are often conducted in colonial, Eurocentric ways, that does not mean there are no liberatory ways of advancing these goals, or that no marginalized individuals do this type of work themselves. Around the world, Indigenous, colonized, and working-class people engage in praxis that recognizes how the fates of other species enmesh with our own, and that our collective survival depends upon the liberation of humans and other species alike.
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Vegan Black Metal Chef Episode 22: Spawning Pizzagenesis
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TIL cows are fed “poultry litter” – "a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."
www.telegraph.co.uk Ground-up chicken waste fed to cattle may be behind bird flu outbreak in US cowsExperts warn that lax regulations could also see the virus spread to US pig farms, with serious consequences for human health
And it gives them bird flu.
Yum.
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hormones for trans people?
hi all, long time vegetarian, just committed myself to veganism this week. however, I'm also trans fem, and having trouble finding info on estrogen and other meds (currently seeking a scrip for adhd). any resources or tips to share? I'm in canada if that's important. thanks in advance!
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Woke Anti-Veganism - video by Catherine Klein
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Video essay by a fairly small youtube creator. She often addresses anti-vegan narratives.
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Device to scare fish away?
Is there anything you can bring kayaking, swimming, or really anywhere people are fishing that will scare the fish away from the fishers? Ideally something not very obvious, and for kayaking something you can easily turn on near fishers and off when you're not near them?
- www.foodandwine.com Florida Is on Its Way to Banning — and Criminalizing — Alternative Meat
Florida legislators have been quietly working to ban and criminalize the production and sale of cell-cultivated meat across the state, via the introduction of two bills.