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Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 25, 2021, 10:44 pm
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"red-blooded Americans Westerners"
Fixed.
Only those who support Biden's plan can be considered Americans.
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Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 28, 2021, 10:18 pm
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HTML https://grist.org/article/dear-white-people-we-need-to-talk-about-your-diets-carbon-footprint/
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> When it comes to emissions, our food choices carry some
serious weight. And according to a new study, white individuals’
eating habits contribute more on average to climate
change-related emissions than other demographic groups.
>
> The study, published Monday in the Journal of Industrial
Ecology, examined the “food pipeline” — the production,
distribution, and waste associated with the products we eat — to
assess the environmental impacts of three different demographic
groups, “Blacks, Latinx, and Whites.” Using data from the
Environmental Protection Agency and the National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers found that the typical
diet of a white American includes more foods that require more
land and water — and emit more greenhouse gases — than the
typical diets of black and Latinx communities.
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We would be surprised if this wasn't the case!
Also:
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> the study is just the latest piece of evidence that, on a
population level, disparities exist between which demographic
groups contribute to — and bear the burdens of — climate change.
>
> According to research published earlier this month in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, people of color
are exposed to higher levels of air pollution than what would be
expected based on their own rates of consumption (a contributor
to emissions). The PNAS study found that non-white Hispanics
breathe in 63 percent more air pollution than caused by their
own consumption, while black people are exposed to about 56
percent more than they cause. As for white Americans, the study
found they breathe in 17 percent less air pollution than they
cause.
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And then rightists have the nerve to ask why, if "whites" are
such bad people, "non-whites" keep trying to move into majority
"white" neighbourhoods.
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Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: May 2, 2021, 10:36 pm
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America’s Westerners' obsession with meat, explained:
HTML https://www.popsci.com/why-americans-eat-so-much-meat/
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> In many European countries, the land and animals on it were
the property of the king, says Harriet Ritvo, a history
professor at MIT and the author of four books, including The
Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian
Age. “The elite has been eating meat—all kinds of meat,
elaborately—for a long period of time,” she says. “But the
peasants were not eating meat at all.” (In the medieval folk
story of Robin Hood, the bycocket-wearing boy turns to the life
of an outlaw after killing one of the king’s deer.)
>
> When colonists began arriving in the new world, their fortunes
quickly changed. They found an abundance of land (stolen, of
course, from indigenous people), most of it loosely controlled.
Native animals provided some ready protein, but the plentiful
natural fauna was also ideal for fattening imported livestock.
Pigs, for example, could root around in the forests for free,
before being topped off with corn and slaughtered.
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#Post#: 6090--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: May 2, 2021, 11:03 pm
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"eating beef along with drinking whiskey, in English-language
colleges in Bengal, became a method of fitting in into the
British culture. "
Even after the colonial era has supposedly ended, still some
False Leftists exude this attitude. Here is False Leftist
Arundathi Roy, a pupil of Noam Chomsky (Jew) proudly proclaiming
she eats beef, and that she does this because she stands in
opposition to the alleged "Hindu Traditionalists":
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvsXgsIqFsM
I'll take "Hindu Traditionalism" over Western False Leftism any
day if it means a ban on cow slaughter.
#Post#: 6091--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 2, 2021, 11:49 pm
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"she eats beef, and that she does this because she stands in
opposition to the alleged "Hindu Traditionalists""
Does the cow care?
The True Left way to oppose Vedic traditionalism is to not drink
milk as well as not eat beef!
#Post#: 6092--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: May 2, 2021, 11:56 pm
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" Vedic traditionalism is to not drink milk as well as not eat
beef!"
Well, technically even the Vedics ate beef, so there's that...
False Leftists and traditionalists on the same page, imagine my
surprise...
#Post#: 6096--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 3, 2021, 12:10 am
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I thought the lower castes in Vedic times were prohibited from
eating beef?
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Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: May 3, 2021, 12:32 am
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"lower castes"
You mean higher castes?
#Post#: 6100--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: May 3, 2021, 12:47 am
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No, I know the Vedic brahmins ate beef:
HTML http://aryanism.net/wp-content/uploads/beef.jpg
#Post#: 6103--------------------------------------------------
Re: Dietary decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: May 3, 2021, 1:20 am
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Those were the people I was referring to when I said
"technically even the Vedics ate beef". I was making the point
that by purporting to "oppose" traditionalism, False Leftists
end up adopting the same attitudes as traditionalists.
If you mean that Vedic traditionalism exhibits a double standard
by forbidding non-Brahmins to eat beef but allowing Brahmins to
consume it, then I would agree. I would also agree that
rejecting milk is the correct response to this, but the first
step in this process is to reject other meats as well, given
that many of the present-day Vedic Brahmins also consume fish,
mutton (goat), chicken, etc.
What do you think?
TLDR;
Veganism > Lacto Vegetarianism > Ovo Vegetarianism >
Pescatarianism > Flexitarianism > meat eaters
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