This! All of THIS! 🍀❤️
I am seeing an increasing number of popular posts equating veganism with colonialism and a settler mentality while supporting animal agriculture, one of the biggest threats to indigenous sovereignty, a main driver of deforestation and an industry quite literally murdering indigenous peoples for profit.
For those who want to take a more balanced approach to this issue, here are some resources specifically relating to veganism, indigenous issues and the threat of animal agriculture:
- Land Back and Animal Agriculture
- Indigenous communities fighting factory farming
- Factory farming exploits indigenous communities
- Factory farming impacts on indigenous communities
- Threats to indigenous survival
- UN: Threats to indigenous food systems
- Is Veganism a Colonising Diet?
- Commercial fisheries sabotaging indigenous fishing
- Seafood and food sovereignty
- Fishery monitors disappearing under suspicious circumstances
- Overfishing robbing indigenous communities of their livelihood
- Indigenous peoples losing their fisheries
- Indigenous people abused and attacked over fishing rights
- First Nations Failing Fisheries
- Global Slavery Index: Fishing
- Brazil indigenous people hunted by cattle ranchers
- Brazil illegal ranching
- Cattle ranchers destroying Amazon
- Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas
- Amazon’s indigenous warriors take on invading loggers and ranchers
- Cattle ranching displaces indigenous peoples
- Veganism And Mi'kmaq Legends: Feminist Natives Do Eat Tofu
- Aotearoa Liberation League
- Intersectional veganism as tool of decolonisation
- Deconstructing Myths Surrounding Veganism & People of Color
- The roots of veganism aren’t white
- You can be indigenous and vegan
- Indigenous culture has strong ties to veganism
- Veganism and Mi’kmaq legends
- Exploring Indigenous Māori Veganism
Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.
what
no seriously
what?
PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY
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The study referenced in the New York Times article I believe is this 1977 study. The information given is accurate, although some limitations should be noted: the study only measured iron absorption, in a specific demographic. Furthermore, whilst absorption may be linked to pleasure, it is limited by the actual nutritional content of the food.
XKit Rewritten
The enhancement suite for Tumblr's new web interface.
Features
- Block all instances of any specific post
- Get an unread count on your tracked tags
- Easily see when a post was originally made
- Adjust the volume on audio & video posts
- And more! Check out the full features list on the wiki
Screenshots
Installation
I think this is overdue a proper announcement!
If you're unaware, I'm one of the members of the New XKit team. It's no secret though that New XKit is kinda dead in the water, thanks to Tumblr's overhaul of its interface which broke almost every feature we had. Oh, and everyone else on the team has a day job now, so I decided to take matters into my own hands:
XKit Rewritten is the result of my work of over a year, now available for Firefox and Chrome (and by extension, Edge and Opera too). There are still features to be added, but the featureset has now mostly overtaken the current working featureset of XKit 7.
If you're already an XKit user, I heartily recommend trying the new experience - even if it means configuring everything again - for its improved performance and increased compatibility.
If you're not already an XKit user, I invite you to give it a go! There's probably some option you'll enjoy. Even if you're on your phone all the time, there's a janky way to set it up on Firefox for Android (sorry, iOS users; blame Apple, not me) which I've also detailed on the wiki.
Have fun with it!