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Veganism as Anti-Colonial Praxis: A Collection of Indigenous Vegan Perspectives in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is there an option to read the zines in page order on screen, instead of in a format meant for printing?

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Anesthetics and plants: no pain, no brain, and therefore no consciousness (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
 

"... plants lack the neural anatomy and all behaviors that would indicate pain. By explaining the ubiquitous and diverse effects of anesthetics, we discuss whether these substances provide any empirical or logical evidence for 'plant consciousness' and whether it makes sense to study the effects of anesthetics on plants for this purpose. In both cases, the answer is a resounding no."

[Activism] How To Use Reddit to Reach More People Than Earthling Ed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm subscribed to vegan communities on other instances, but I'm not on a big instance myself.

[Activism] How To Use Reddit to Reach More People Than Earthling Ed in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I'm finding it a bit hard to figure out how lemmy works, to be honest. There are some links I've posted to vegantheoryclub and I would like to share them on other vegan instances too, but I don't want to fill everyone's feed with spam.

Race, Poverty, and Potential Exposure of Middle-School Students to Air Emissions from Confined Swine Feeding Operations in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I went to school near one for a while, and the smell was just awful and haunting.

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Race, Poverty, and Potential Exposure of Middle-School Students to Air Emissions from Confined Swine Feeding Operations (europepmc.org)
 

"Previous research about the presence of swine CAFOs shows a disproportionately high concentration of the industry in communities of color despite the declining number of black farmers in the southeastern United States."

"... swine CAFO emissions and any inhalable exposures, including odorant and nonodorant chemicals and respirable organic dusts, that correlate with odor disproportionately affect a population of children and adults who, regardless of their livestock-related exposures, may be predisposed to asthma-related health outcomes and other illnesses for reasons largely attributable to their economic disadvantage."

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America’s Dairyland: Risking Workers' Lives for the Milk We Drink (www.propublica.org)
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A series of articles about worker exploitation in the American dairy industry

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Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay (www.theguardian.com)
 

The world can't afford the rise in global beef consumption that experts predict - while wealthier nations, whose residents have the most emissions-intensive diets, could make rapid climate gains by choosing to eat less.

This narrative is one that industry-aligned interests badly want to extinguish. Through blog posts, videos, educational assets, op-eds, TV ads, social media campaigns, trained influencers and other channels - many described here for the first time - the industry is trying to convince us all of what the science definitely doesn't show: that dietary change has no role in climate strategy.

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Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient (www.nbcnews.com)
 

Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus.

(Of course there's someone at the end of the article still trying to rationalize murder as "humane")

Like chicken but tastier: Plant-based nuggets outperform chicken nuggets in world's largest blind tasting in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean, I have been known to do meat. It’s just so sexy, all juicy and with the myoglobin dripping. Who wouldn’t do it?

The sexual politics of meat strikes again

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A fire killed 18,000 cows in Texas. It’s a horrifyingly normal disaster. (www.vox.com)
 

Fires on large-scale animal farms, or factory farms, are surprisingly common. Over the last decade, at least 6.5 million farmed animals, mostly chickens, perished in barn fires in the US, according to Washington, DC-based nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute (AWI).