Feral Forager Zine (wild roots)
a zine about wild edibles, harvesting roadkill, the health benefits of wild foods, and primitive skills.
Normally I wouldn’t say anything, but I have to go to the doctors today so I’m in a bad mood.
communitymarkets just reblogged this from me and removed all the comments on why this photoset is bullshit.
If you don’t agree with the comments found on a post go back to the OP and reblog it from them. The only reason I reblogged this in the first place was for all of the comments on why this is so much bullshit.
Yes in SOME areas you may be able to find food at these prices, assuming there is even a grocery market in the area, but you sure as hell can’t find those sort of prices where I live. Also many people work multiple jobs and just don’t have the time or energy at the end of the day to cook up a healthy meal.
I am all for eating healthy but for some it just isn’t feasible or even possible for those that live in a food desert. All this photoset does is shame the poor, which is not the right way to address the issue of access to healthy food for the underprivileged.
all of the above. not to mention morning star products are just as nasty and synthetic as a burger king burger.
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What do plants eat? They eat dead animals; that’s the problem. For me that was a horrifying realization. You want to be an organic gardener, of course, so you keep reading ‘Feed the soil, feed the soil, feed the soil…’
Alright. Well what does the soil want to eat? Well, it wants manure, and it wants urine, and it wants blood meal and bone meal. And I…could not face that. I wanted my garden to be pure and death-free. It didn’t matter what I wanted: plants wanted those things; they needed those things to grow…
So, I sort of played a moral hide-and-seek in my mind. I was left with this realization that I could eat an animal directly, or I could pass an animal through a plant and then eat it, but either way there were animals involved in this process. I could not remove animals from the equation.
I had to accept on some level that there was a cycle here, and it was very ancient, and ultimately very spiritual. It was really hard for me to accept the ‘death’ part of that equation. Years. It took me years to finally face it. But there wasn’t any way out of it if I was going to grow things.
—Lierre Keith, on gardening as a vegan; October 8, 2009 on Underground Wellness Radio (via weeta)
(Source: blogtalkradio.com, via girl-germs)
“On The Anatomy of Thrift: Harvest Day” is a short film that focuses on using every part of the pig.
“It is difficult to retrain our pallets to remember what food with value tastes like.”
This is the second film in the series the first can be watched here.
I really love the messages of this film. That you can both love an animal and eat it. These people really respect their animals and let nothing go to waste.
The shirt on the left belonged to a young man who walked into the CIW’s office in November, 1996. He had been picking tomatoes in a field near Immokalee when he stopped to take a drink of water. A field supervisor accosted him, shouted “Are you here to work, or to drink water?”, and launched into him, leaving him badly bruised and bloodied — and determined to find justice. The young worker walked back to Immokalee, headed straight to the CIW office, and sparked a nighttime march of nearly 500 workers on the crewleader’s house. The marchers brandished his shirt as a banner, declaring “If you beat one of us, you beat us all!”, and helped launch a movement that changed Immokalee forever.
The shirt on the right belonged to a young man who walked into the CIW’s office last week. He had been working at a vegetable packing house, packing eggplants, about 10 miles from Immokalee when a supervisor approached him. According to the worker, the supervisor criticized his work, and he, thinking the criticism unjustified, answered back. A discussion ensued when, according to the worker and a witness, the supervisor hauled off and punched him in the face. Staggered, he swung back, but was knocked to the ground by the supervisor before others in the area stepped in to pull them apart. The worker was told to go home, clean up, and return the next day. Instead, he went to the CIW’s office, and filed a police report. He then went to the hospital, where he learned that the supervisor’s punch had broken his nose.
Do you know where your produce comes from?
Do vegans know where their produce comes from?
I ask this question whenever someone talks about “but omg the animals”
This is such a great debate. I am all for people doing whatever it is they feel they want to do (within reason, of course.) You want to eat meat? Go for it. You don’t? That’s cool too. Just try to be informed about what it is you’re putting in your mouth and where it comes from. Appreciate what it took to get to your plate. (And while we’re at it: don’t be fucking wasteful!)
(Source: emeraldtriangleprincess)
Homesweet Homegrown is a guide on how to grow, make, and store your own food — no matter where you live! How to pickle things? Check! How to make your own cold frame? Check! It even comes with organic seed packets to get you started. Next up? The ladies are gearing up to take their How To’s out of the backyard and onto the road, embarking on a cross-country Amtrak book tour. So what are you waiting for? Get growing!
(via ruralworkshop)
- Random person who I just told that I raise and kill my own chickens/ducks: How can you bring yourself to kill something you've raised from an adorable little chick?!
- Me: Easy, they're really tasty.
SUBMISSION: Kitchen 101 Volume Conversion Poster from Chasing Delicious.
Q: Hi there! I just read a post from you answering a question made by another user about your eating habits. Let me tell you first that I enjoy very much your pictures, actually I love them! It seems to me that you like animals very much. You know animals are killed to become “food”, and that they suffer tremendously when murdered so, why do you choose to eat them? Peace!
rhamphotheca:meat
It is a part of nature (what isnt really) that animals eat each other, an integral part of it. I do not view myself as apart from nature and ecology. I am another animal, an omnivore, as my ancestors for millenia have been. The mink does not stop to think before he eviscerates a vole or a fish or a wood frog. I don’t see anything wrong with killing something and eating it.
I do think its wrong to make animals suffer unduly or in a prolonged fashion, such as in the way that industrialized farming does. This is why its important to me that animals that are killed for eating are taken care of well and slaughtered in as cruelty minimal a way as possible. If they are harvested from the wild, its important to me that they are taken in as cruelty minimal and ecologically sustainable a method as possible.
with this said, i do not believe that its either responsible nor salubrious to eat meat regularly, so i do not eat meat often.
perfect answer.
it’s been raining for a while now: BAD, vegans, BAD.
Passionate about animal rights? BAD. You’re being single-issue!
Passionate about both human and nonhuman rights and apply an intersectional approach to your vegan advocacy? BAD. You’re placing human and nonhuman justice on equal footing, ick!
Seriously. How the fuck did you manage to forget that humans reign at the very top of the hierarchy? Didn’t you know that by dismantling that hierarchy, you’re depriving the human species of their rightful pedestal? Every second spent on improving the lives of other animals is a second WASTED, and you shit on the face of humanity with your sacrilege.
BAD.
Go eat a cheeseburger. And sit in the corner until you remember that you can never win.
no really, are you goddamn kidding right now?
What is the point of you? What the fuck is your point?
If what you wrote above is your perception of what I’ve said about veganism, you are completely & perhaps willfully missing the part where I have a hard time taking veganism seriously as a “liberation front” when it exploits human beings who are largely of an ethnic background similar to mine while championing the rights of animals.
Let’s set aside your Euro-centric construct of “speciesism” for a moment & consider how racism—oppression of humans by other humans—impacts immigration & the agriculture & food production industry. Consider how racism allowed the United States to create trade policies that effectively destroyed the agriculture industry of Mexico—an industry run largely by brown people. People with heavy Indigenous heritage having their livelihood destroyed by lawmakers who were largely white. Let’s talk about how much of immigration from Mexico & Latin America now comprises these same people & how they’re exploited be the food industry. By the meat industry, yes, but also by the agriculture industry, where they receive less-than-minimum-wage to grow & harvest our food. These Human Beings have no guarantee of an income due to inconsistent work, no guarantee of even getting paid their meager wages for the work they do, usually no healthcare or paid time off for the grueling work they do. As much as the GOP talks about stemming immigration from Mexico (because let’s be real: they’re really only concerned about limiting brown migration into the US), these industries rely on the cheap labor provided by undocumented immigration.
You want to act like you’re “reducing impact” by not contributing to the meat industry, but it’s laughable that you think I’d believe this for two seconds when you make posts like this, this snarky treatise on “speciesism” to support the idea that you have any real concern for the humans who also work in the meat industry. They don’t have it much better than those who work in the agriculture industry, & I’d even argue they probably have it worse in many ways. But when you make posts like this, it’s clear your real focus is the cute fluffy aminuhls
Some of your lot talk about human trafficking & extortion abuses related to importing people/facilitating undocumented immigration for these workers, but that’s all fucking lip service coming from you. You’ll have to understand that I’m a bit more invested in seeing that my fellow Latin@s seen & treated as human beings before I can have the luxury—the privilege—of worrying about the way animals are treated in this industry—and it’s plain as day that the animals are truly your primary concern in this. This is fine. Really it is. As I’ve said approximately a billion times, a chaconne son propre, but don’t get snarky & goddamn condescending with me as though I’m not “doing it right” because I value my Companeros above the animals that I, quite frankly, have no moral dilemma in eating.
FINALLY, quit being such a goddamn racist shit. You wanna play it like you can be concerned about more than one thing, but I notice that while you have 53 pages of posts tagged “vegan”, you have a mere 6 tagged “racism” & one whole page of posts tagged “immigration”. So while your talk of “intersectionality” may be rousing & inspiring for your fellow navel-gazing white vegans, I hereby call bullshit & advise you to check your goddamn white privilege related to this issue & don’t fucking darken my doorstep again until you have something to say that is not dripping with said privilege.
Any white vegans following me who care to, please come collect your garbage, because I am done pretending to respect shitstains such as this.
The bolded, completely. idgaf what you choose to do with your private life, but when you cross the line in to condescension over my decision to fret over my fellow human beings, my people, mi raza and want to spout off about intersectionality and equality? I will not take that shit lying down. You have the privilege to invent things like speciesism because your people aren’t be systemically degraded and devalued and erased. There is less than a handful of vegans I have ever interacted with who approach this sort of thing with sensitivity and nuance and I am beyond grateful. But shit like this? Can fuck right off.
throw back to annoying feminism/veganism debate- hay white vegans, there are more human slaves now than any point in history. most everything we own in capitalist society is tainted in blood and forced labor. point this out that vegans still support human slavery yet decry people for supporting “animal slavery” at the same time,——— &get told there are more nonhuman animals enslaved that any point in history, animals are the most oppressed and that a vegan wouldn’t support human slavery. really, what the fuck are you people doing to acknowledge the suffering of the people growing YOUR food (make your clothes, your iPhones, whose water you stole)? it’s like they really really really don’t get it.
that middle paragraph? “Didn’t you know that by dismantling that hierarchy, you’re depriving the human species of their rightful pedestal?” seriously? sorry, no. not every human is on some pedestal above animals, try again. You are shitting on the faces of so many suffering people when you spend so much time decrying the abuse of animals and not giving second thought to people. When you look at the food industry and you stop looking at how fucked up it is when you get to the meat and dairy industry and ignore the other parts? yeah, meat and dairy industry most definitely fucked up but being moralistic assholes and prioritizes it on a hierarchy as animals the most oppressed above all others? what is it that you say about us concerning hierarchies? talking out all the sides of your mouth.
usually i’m down with what veganmudblood posts but DAMN. no.
I knew there was a reason outspokenly moralistic vegans are a permanent fixture on my shit list.
Vegans are people with the privilege to exercise political conscious consumerism by boycotting animal products. Or maybe it’s a dietary reason, or both. Any vegan who plays judge-punk about people’s lifestyle limited by access to monetary resources needs to take a seat.
That being said, those who do not consider non-humans as part of the struggle have isolated the issue away from the interconnectedness of all forms of oppression. Humans have degraded, deforested, destroyed life and it’s our duty to bring justice for the non-humans we have directly effected through our capitalistic industrialized sprawl and commodifying of non-human life.
It’s not as though the world is here as a playground between immaculate conception and eternal bliss in the afterlife (ahem, Christians). No, this is life now. & there is systematic, institutionalized suffering of humans and non-humans. Remember, we can’t live without non-human life, but non-human life can certainly live without humans. These are environmental, animal, and human rights issues. ALL AT ONCE!
we are now a moralizing vegan hate blog. sorry if you followed ewvegetables for pretty photos of carrots, it’s just going to be blocks of text about people’s self-aggrandizing dietary choices. can i be really predictable and post what i always say? repeat with me: individual lifestyle/consumer choices and boycotts cannot effect large-scale systemic change.
(via riotnerd)
