Vegan

I'm running out of kitchen inspiration for next week's meal prep and could use some good ideas from some good people :)

Bob Barker was vegetarian, not vegan. But his passionate support for animal rights deserves respect and emulation.

Oh, and have your pets spayed or neutered.

Love to see it

The off-grid survivalist dude in invidious video ID “YOXkcz8j3Gc” says milk & potatoes are “nutritionally complete”, which if I understand correctly means that pairing covers the 9 essential amino acids. That’s cool.. but not vegan.

A pescetarian in my family was hospitalized for malnutrition. Not sure what he did wrong or what he was short on, but he doesn’t strike me as someone who would be overly negligent. IMO, as a non-vegan outsider looking in, a vegan diet is easy to screw up & requires some research to stay safe. You can’t just live on rabbit food. So I wonder if the title-linked article has the answers. In short, it claims these pairings are nutritionally complete:

1. rice & beans
2. tofu & veg (questionable¹?)
3. chickpeas & wheat
4. peanut butter & whole wheat toast²
5. pinto beans³ & corn
6. whole wheat pasta & peas
7. lentils & rice ←I’m bummed it’s not lentils & couscous, which I often use in lentil salad
8. oatmeal & pumpkin seeds

Note that all links referenced in this post are Cloudflare-free and openly accessible to all. Also no big cookie popups or similar garbage.

footnotes (with questions!):

1. I find tofu & vegetables suspicious. There are countless vegetables, so this is quite vague. How can we expect any given veg to have whatever tofu is missing? This makes me somewhat skeptical of the whole article.

2. Why toast? Why not bread?

3. Or skip the pinto beans and just make sure your corn is infected with a purple fungus containing lysine, assuming #lysine is the reason pinto beans are paired with corn.

Freedom of Information Act documents reveal that the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned the egg industry that saying eggs are nutritious or safe may violate rules against false and misleading advertising.

“In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at the validity of vegan and plant-based diets as a solution to climate change. I dive into the human and planetary toll of the meat industry, looking at the massive emissions toll of beef production as well as the exploitative conditions in meat processing plants. Ultimately, I consider whether veganism is an effective tool to dismantling the meat industry and mitigating climate change.”

approaching the question from the economic/climate side with two big provisos

• while veganism is good for your personal carbon footprint, it is a consumer level change whereas we need to drastically change the production side of things
• it cannot be used as the moral justification to dictate imperialist policy to the rest of the world

I for my self love Chana Masala, could eat it every day!

Basically:

• Onions
• Chickpeas
• (Canned) Tomatoes
• Vegan Yoghurt
• Garam Masala

Served with basmati rice

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/1119732

In Germany, animal farms are declining. Around -30% since 1990 for Swines and -36% for dairy cows since 2013.

Minus 11% ist in einem Jahr schon beachtlich. Ich denke da kommt die nächsten Jahre noch automatisch einiges dazu, so wie die Preise für vegane Alternativen fallen

The words of Greta Thunberg this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pyi0L7_vwo

Activists are being systemically targeted with repression and are paying the price for defending life and the right to protest.

We are seeing now extremely worrying developments where activists all over the world are experiencing increased repressions just for fighting for our present and our future.

There is extreme hypocrisy when it comes to this. All over the world we're experiencing this. Not the least, for example, here in France. Just the other day - that activists are being systemically targeted with repression and are paying the price for defending life and the right to protest.

We're still speeding in the wrong direction

We are now at an extremely critical point. The emissions of greenhouse gasses are at an all-time-high, and the concentration of Co2 in the atmosphere hasn't been this high in the entire history of humanity.

And we're still speeding in the wrong direction. The emissions are on the rise, and science has been very clear on this. And the people living on the front-lines of the climate emergency have been sounding the alarm for a long time