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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: April 14, 2024, 9:55 pm
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: April 21, 2024, 1:46 pm
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=595.msg25659#msg25659
date=1711493350]
[B]This appears to be mainly a Western phenomenon:[/b]
HTML https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/04/05/150061991/lust-lies-and-empire-the-fishy-tale-behind-eating-fish-on-friday
[quote]Let's start with a quick lesson in theology: According to
Christian teaching, Jesus died on a Friday, and his death
redeemed a sinful world. People have written of fasting on
Friday to commemorate this sacrifice as early as the first
century.
Technically, it's the flesh of warmblooded animals that's off
limits — an animal "that, in a sense, sacrificed its life for
us, if you will," explains Michael Foley, an associate professor
at Baylor University and author of Why Do Catholics Eat Fish On
Friday?
Fish are coldblooded, so they're considered fair game. "If you
were inclined to eat a reptile on Friday," Foley tells The Salt,
"you could do that, too."
Alas, Christendom never really developed a hankering for snake.
But fish — well, they'd been associated with sacred holidays
even in pre-Christian times. And as the number of meatless days
piled up on the medieval Christian calendar — not just Fridays
but Wednesdays and Saturdays, Advent and Lent, and other holy
days — the hunger for fish grew. Indeed, fish fasting days
became central to the growth of the global fishing industry.
...
The Vikings were ace at preserving cod — they "used dried and
salted cod as a form of beef jerky on their ocean passages,"
Fagan says. And the route the Vikings took at the end of the
first millennium — Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland — matches up
with the natural range of the Atlantic cod.
It's possible that others may have followed the cod trail to
Canada before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Clues suggest that
English fishermen from Bristol may have made the voyage by
around 1480 but kept mum on the location lest the competition
rush in. By some accounts, both Columbus and John Cabot had
heard of these adventures when they set off on their own epic
journeys west.[/quote]
As I keep saying, every element of Western civilization sooner
or later ends up assisting some other element of Western
civilization.
Also from your link:
[quote]cold cuts, sausages, salamis, mortadelas, ham... This is
also something that people exclude from their imaginary of meat.
It's pretty common to ask for some baked goods and ask for an
option without meat and people respond "there's no meat, we have
only cheese and ham".[/quote]
Again, how often do you imagine this happening in non-Western
countries?
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True, although there are similar attitudes in non Western
countries as well:
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[Quote]
GSBs eat non veg, GSB Gaud Saraswat Brahmins
"We do not consider Fish as non vegetarian, off late even
Chicken Mutton also"
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[/Quote]
Although this attitude would be considered absurd in mainstream
Indian circles, unlike in the West.
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: April 25, 2024, 1:49 pm
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Only in the West is vegan food more expensive than meat for the
consumer due to supply and demand. I myself don't mind paying
extra as I make a good amount of money, and I am willing to use
it if it means a reduction in initiated violence.
However, I should note that many of the ingredients are foreign,
due to local soil being monopolized for feed crops, which means
they would have had to have been shipped across the ocean, which
means there may have been violence involved as the ship may have
killed some fish.
This is why freeganism is the best..
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: June 2, 2024, 7:30 pm
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HTML https://chatelaine.com/food/soy-milk/
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 2, 2024, 8:05 pm
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HTML https://plantbasednews.org/culture/ethics/soy-boy-everything-you-need-to-know/
[quote]It’s thought that the term “soy boy” first emerged from
the depths of the far-right internet in 2017. Broadly, it is
meant as an insult to men perceived to be too feminine due to
their liberal beliefs, such as vegans. It has been adopted by
climate denial groups such as The Heartland Institute in the US.
It was used by a man in a threatening email to his MP, Tory
health minister Will Quince, in 2022.
Some vegans are taking the meanness out of the term by
proclaiming themselves to be soy boys. A vegan burger restaurant
in Toronto, Canada, is called Soy Boys, as the owner decided he
might as well “just own” the term. The restaurant is so popular
that he now sells merchandise with Soy Boys branding.[/quote]
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:)
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: June 14, 2024, 7:37 pm
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HTML https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZKfifBAAACEAfZEg
[Quote]
Dairy consumption in India can be traced as far back as the
Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE), where it was an
essential part of the diet. Elsewhere in the world, humans first
started consuming milk around 7,400 years ago, during the
Neolithic period, when agriculture, and domestication of
animals, plants and crops emerged.
Even if the story of dairy goes back millennia, our ability to
digest it starts with mother’s milk. Infant digestive systems
secrete lactase, the enzyme required to break down the lactose
present in milk. After weaning, lactase production usually
plummets, and eventually stops. Lactose intolerance is therefore
common among most adults. Only a third of humans have evolved to
digest milk and most have Northern European ancestry, in which a
certain genetic mutation results in high lactase persistence.
India’s dairy culture is far-reaching even if lactase
persistence is low: the uses, traditions, and history of yoghurt
in India are wide-ranging, finding mentions in traditional
Indian Ayurvedic medicine, the early 12th-century Sanskrit text
‘Manasollasa’, and early Tamil literature. Ghee (made from
clarified butter or yoghurt) too has been consumed for
centuries, and is considered an important fat in cooking, ritual
and medicine.
Notably, both yoghurt and ghee have low lactose content, as they
are made from fermented dairy. Today’s commercially processed
cheese, though popular at street-food stalls, is comparatively
new within India’s dairy history, probably due to taboos
attached to rennet, an animal product used in the manufacturing
process.
Milk for progress
It was in colonial India that drinking cow’s milk became
considered “life-giving”, according to historian William Gould
in his 2004 book ‘Hindu Nationalism and the Language of Politics
in Late Colonial India’, associating the bovine beverage with
the strength of the nation. Following India’s independence in
1947, a contemporary nationalist project developed to promote
milk consumption as a ‘pure’ health food: milk was instrumental
in not only building individual bodies, families and culture,
but also in establishing a nation-state.
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 28, 2024, 5:05 pm
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Mainstream academia beginning to get a clue:
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13560881/Now-experts-asking-milk-racist-tax-payer-funded-research-project-connections-milk-colonialism.html
[quote]Academics at an Oxford museum will research the
'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies'.
One of the experts involved has previously argued that milk is a
'Northern European obsession' that has been imposed on other
parts of the world.
Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp said the assumption that milk was a
key part of the human diet 'may be understood as a white
supremacist one', as many populations outside Europe and North
America have high levels of lactose intolerance in adulthood.
...
Dr Zetterstrom-Sharp took part in a talk titled Milk and
Whiteness during a Wellcome Trust exhibition on milk in 2022.
In the panel discussion, she said a 'Northern European obsession
with milk' had led to the assumption that it was a vital part of
any human diet, and should be produced and provided on a vast
scale.
The Wellcome Trust exhibition highlighted the imposition of
dairy economies by colonial powers, including in regions where
populations had high levels of lactose intolerance.
Dr Zetterstrom-Sharp also highlighted issues with the way local
milk production in Africa may have been quashed in favour of
industrial methods aimed at producing greater volume, and how
milk has been distributed by aid organisations.[/quote]
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: September 6, 2024, 6:36 pm
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Western degeneracy:
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[quote]
Fancy chicken served at the 3-Michelin star Epicure restaurant
in Paris, France.
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: September 6, 2024, 7:14 pm
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnuVykT0CT4
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Re: Dietary decolonization
By: rp Date: September 22, 2024, 2:43 pm
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[quote]
Another disgraceful example of businesses in Japan not being
welcoming to tourists.
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