Fellow eat to live partner Aura also has laid it down in the blogsphere at Raw Vibrations. It gets the Green Gangsta stamp of approval. (And a free ill smoothie if you catch me between 4pm-5pm EST today only).
People that know me know that I ain't no PetaPet. I rarely roll with the term vegan only because it has been co-opted by white anorexic women in recovery (or on the down low). And frankly Peta be slipping too close to bestiality for me to really be feeling them. All in all I see an over emphasis on the welfare of animals vs the effects of post-colonialism/racism/genocide/slavery that plagues original people so rolling with PetaPets oftentimes makes me nauseous.
I generally have a plant-centric diet and I am into environmental racism. I mean..maker, owner of the planet it's my duty (blog search "Her Fullest Ecology" my 5% environmental perspective that I wrote). By doing the above the little animals in the long run are going to be saved anyway.
With all of that said I came across this piece that paired animal treatment by whites with racism. I'm kinda feeling it and it may just lighten up my feelings on those who are a little on the 'animal rights' side if they are in tune and aware of this perspective.
Animal subordination lays the groundwork for racism. The ideology of animal subordination requires that a thick line be drawn between human animals and other animals. Animals on one side of the line are considered to have rights while animals on the other side of the line are treated as objects that can be owned. Starting from this position, it is easy to shift the line a little bit, so that some humans are grouped with the animals and also treated as lesser beings. Indeed, it was specifically among the keepers of "livestock" (living beings treated like objects) that the practice of human slavery began. As long as some living beings are considered property, no group of people is safe from the possibility of also being deemed to be without rights.
Just as racism is shaped by animal exploitation, animal exploitation is sometimes patterned by racism or deployed in racist ways. Dangerous and environmentally destructive factory farms and processing plants are often located in communities of color. Local citizens must live with the pollution while working at dangerous and degrading jobs. The products of these industries are often marketed to communities of color, regardless of the impact on physical health or cultural welfare.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and other organizations have begun to focus on the issue of dietary racism. According to Dr. Milton Mills, "the U.S. Dietary Guidelines as they exist are really a fundamental form of institutionalized racism in a rather destructive and insidious format." Those guidelines recommend heavy consumption of milk products even though up to 95 percent of adult Asians, 74 percent of Native Americans, 70 percent of African Americans, and 53 percent of Mexican Americans are lactose intolerant. Recommendations concerning meat consumption ignore the high rates of heart disease and cancer among African Americans.
The school meal programs upon which so many children of color depend are constructed on the basis of these biased guidelines. Wealthy corporations profit from those programs. But what about the children? Do stomach aches, bloating, and other results of inappropriate dairy consumption impede their academic performance and enjoyment of school activities?
The link between animal exploitation and racism has an international component. During the era of European imperialism, colonized nations in Africa, Asia, and the Americas were forced to grow vast tracts of cash crops for export on lands previously devoted to sustainable production of food crops for local and regional consumption. In the immediate post-colonial era, Europe and USA continued to wield economic power over the now impoverished former colonies. That power was used to promote the continuation of cash crop agriculture and also to promote specific agricultural practices, such as the heavy use of fertilizers and pesticides. The result was further impoverishment, hunger, and the depletion of soil and water resources. Today, the latest phase of agricultural colonialism has begun. Facing shrinking markets and expanding regulations at home, agribusiness corporations want to relocate factory farming operations in low-income nations in Asia and Africa. They also hope to convince the citizens of those nations to give up their healthy traditional diets in order to increase their own consumption of meat and other animal products.
http://www.bravebirds.org/racism.html
Yeah I get it. Stew some cut strawberries in some agave nectar over night and then blend them with almond milk in the morning..sip, sigh, repeat.
It makes sense that one of the centers of eco-technology would be Nippon (Japan) in that they were devastated by the nuclear bomb plus basically after the U.S. disarmed them they are a damn technological penal colony. Also, being an island they have had to think of different ways of conservation in terms of useful land vs their total population.
.....I mean wash your food. I picked this up from my peeps Aura over at soulveg.
(NaturalNews) Watching the FDA trip over its own clumsy self while groping for answers on Salmonella is a sad affair. Following the FDA-encouraged destruction of tens of millions of dollars of perfectly good tomatoes, this confused, bewildered agency admits that tomatoes may not have been the problem after all, and it has now set its sights on destroying the peppers industry. Is there no vegetable safe from the destruction of the FDA?
Tomatoes don't harbor salmonella, by the way. Neither do peppers, onions, cilantro or spinach. Salmonella only festers in factory-farmed animals, folks, and that means the real source of contamination is no doubt some animal factory upstream from the vegetable processing centers. So why isn't the FDA going after the animal factories that likely caused this whole fiasco? Because making Americans scared of their vegetables is a great way to advance the FDA's food irradiation agenda which would destroy virtually all the medicinal phytonutrients in plants.
As intelligent, informed consumers are now discovering to their own dismay, the FDA appears to be purposely dragging its feet on this food safety crisis, milking the fear for political gain just like President Bush after 9/11. Fear is a powerful tactic for pushing an agenda that the People would otherwise refuse to accept, and since most Americans are strongly opposed to food irradiation, the FDA is more than happy to drag out this salmonella issue as a way to make American consumers increasingly afraid of fresh vegetables.
This accomplishes three things the FDA supports:
1) It advances the FDA's pro-irradiation agenda where ALL fresh produce might someday be irradiated without your knowledge.
2) It makes consumers buy more processed, dead foods, which produces profits for the very same junk food companies that have strong influence at the FDA.
3) If food irradiation is put in place, it will destroy the medicinal properties of fresh produce, thereby blocking the prevention of diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, etc. This, in turn, has the effect of creating a windfall of sick people that will fill the coffers of drug companies (who are, of course, the FDA's clients).
But would the FDA play politics with the safety of American lives? Sure it would...
Wait a sec. Am I saying the FDA would purposely put American lives at risk in order to play politics with food safety?
Well, gee, if you haven't noticed, the FDA has been putting American lives at risk for well over a decade, pushing dangerous pharmaceuticals that were recalled by other nations, colluding with drug companies to bury negative information about the drugs, outlawing safe, natural alternatives to dangerous pharmaceuticals and even going so far as to threaten its own top scientists who attempt to speak out against dangerous drugs.
Want to know the truth about the FDA? Read the shocking facts, if you dare, at www.NaturalNews.com/the_FDA.html
This salmonella scare, you see, isn't about tomatoes, peppers or cilantro. It's about creating a state of fear in the minds of consumers -- a state that can be invoked to further the FDA's pro-irradiation agenda.
These scare stories, in other words, are a lot like false flag operations in the military, where conflicts are staged against one's own nation in order to blame the enemy and declare war. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
So as it turns out, the FDA isn't fumbling around so much after all. It only acts like it's clueless about these salmonella outbreaks in order to prolong the problem, generate more fearful press coverage, and then appear as the hero when it calls for widespread food irradiation.
Don't be afraid of fresh food, folks. Be outraged at the FDA's use of fear as a manipulation tactic to invoke a backlash against fresh food.
Vegetables are not the problem, and food irradiation would make them LESS safe for consumers, not more.
Reference:
Adams, M. (2008). FDA's Wheel of Salmonella Comic. Retrieved July 31, 2008 from http://www.naturalnews.com/023681.html.
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Why I blog. Why I DIY. Cause I read 1984 in 1984 and already knew that we'd be living in 1984. That filthy dollar (the dollar is filthy..yeah..mad people's grimy hands has been on it yet gold kinda sparkles) is utilized by the rich slave makers of the poor to control what they see and hear. I already knew that their agenda was to tell lies on the 5%/poor righteous teachers.
Why I blog. Why I DIY.
Cause ain't nobody going to love you like God(awww..you don't know my resume THIS Blackman is God). Ain't nobody going to tell you the truth like your brother.
Why I DIY.
Cause I hate corporations that are nothing except the modern day incarnations of the same groups of old white men who financed slavery (yeah...I said it...those insurance firms founded on slave blood money). They also teach the poor lies that they cannot be the makers and owners of their own destiny. They actually have people believing that they need to buy name brand toothpaste, soap,PAPER TOWELS, etc. How crazy is that?
I was Building with my father (cause we do stuff like that..sorry..i got a good relationship with the Old man...no fodder for a 'dad not in my life' story there) about solar energy. We were Building on how important it is for people on the ground level to learn how to do this stuff theirselves because when that oil runs out WHO THE FUNK DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO OWN ALL OF THE ALTERNATIVE ENERGY CORPORATIONS? The same robber barons who are funking up the world now. I ain't down with them. I am the Sun (of Man). I ain't going through no intermediary to build with myself.
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