vegans make peace with honey
no shut up do it
vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects
This is the link from the video. It’s important that we try to take action. Don’t buy chocolate that may be connected with slavery. In the link there’s also information about slavery free chocolate.
On chocolate, coffee, tea, other products coming from the global south: if you can afford it, buy only products with some kind of a certificate that demonstrates the product has been ethically produced (and this has been verified by an outside agency), such as the Fairtrade, UTZ or Rainforest Alliance certificate.
But also beware that some producers have made up their own certificates, with no outside oversight. These essentially fake certificates include Cocoa Life, the certificate invented by Mondelez – one of the companies listed behind the link for using slave labour, who stopped using Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa and switched to their own certificate instead.
here’s a list of companies who use fair trade chocolate:
and a list of companies who knowingly use slave labor to make their chocolate:
btw—the website writes the email FOR YOU if you click to send an email; it takes literally two seconds
Starbuck's chocolate might be ethically sourced but their coffee is not as of 2020.
heads up to anyone reading the allegations and current evidence regarding a*mie h*mmer and more importantly the plight of his victims as you should be emotionally prepared and be aware of the trigger warnings that include but are not limited to r*pe and sexual violence more broadly, psychological abuse, gore, blood, slavery, amputation, cannibalism, drunk driving, child neglect, possible animal abuse and animal death and a lot of misogyny and victim blaming from the public. after extensively viewing all the messages, screenshots, videos of past interviews, etc., I honestly felt that I needed a shower after being consumed by this rabbit hole of sexual abuse and violence... but it was the victim blaming and defending abusers that was additional triggering for victims (and anyone who supports victims) to endure as they become better informed about this heinous excuse for a human being.
Titus Kaphar took a painting that used to be on the wall of Yale’s Corporation room, showing Eliyu Yale with two other wealthy white men & an enslaved Black child in the background. Hr repainted it, crumpling it up. It’s called “Enough about You”. h/t Fipi Lele
i hope this makes sense but i always get kinda uncomfortable when people talk about colonization and put a huge emphasis on the accomplishments of the people who were colonized as if that’s the reason they shouldn’t have been subject to colonization. like when talking about sustainable farming practices or gender equality some folks still have this gross mindset, kind of like “these people shouldn’t have been colonized because they meet MY standard of a progressive society”. there are always people who won’t meet that standard and while it is important to talk about the history and culture of precolonial societies its so uncomfortable to see us to zero in on the ways these societies are “better”. like maybe my ancestors weren’t kings, maybe they weren’t agriculturally savvy, maybe their accomplishments wouldn’t impress an outside audience but no matter what they did not deserve to be enslaved and have their nations and land decimated. yall get me??
How does the US respond to a crisis? With slavery, of course!
ABSOLUTELY WHAT IS YOUR POINT????
Voluntary? Fuck that shit. Prisons charge prisoners for everything. Phone calls, internet access, toiletries. Some have gotten rid of physical books so they can charge inmates by the minute to read ebooks. They intentionally serve disgusting food so prisoners will buy snack foods from the prison store. The pads they provide women are too small and too few INTENTIONALLY, so female prisoners will buy their own. They create an atmosphere of deprevation and misery that drives prisoners to “voluntarily” work for pennies just so they can eat food that won’t make them puke and actually communicate with their loved ones.
his father is rolling in his grave
there’s the fake merchandising holiday today that makes people depressed and theres also the other really good holiday
I genuinely do not understand this unrelenting insistence that we compare every horrendous thing the United States does to the Holocaust, when there are much better comparisons to be made to…well, the United fucking States.
The United States has a long, sordid history of separating families: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the families impacted by slavery for generations after being stolen from their homes and sold to the highest bidder, for one. The Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools, where Native children were ripped from their families in order to have their language, culture, and beliefs stamped out of them through forced assimilation and conversion to Christianity, for another.
The United States has an awful history of putting people in detention centres: Japanese and Native Alaskan internment camps during WWII, Fort Cass, Fort Snell, and other Native American internment camps that Indigenous Peoples were forced into throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, not even to mention Guantanamo Bay, and the camps so-called dissidents in the places like the Philippines, Vietnam, and other nations Americans had occupied were put into.
The United States has always been horrible to its immigrants, specifically non-white and/or non-Christian refugees. My own grandfather, an immigrant form India, couldn’t become a citizen of the United States despite being a college lecturer and the spouse of a US citizen due to Asian Exclusion, and had to continuously enrol in university courses he never actually took despite the fact that he was teaching them, just to stay in the country on a student visa. The one truly valid comparison to the Holocaust era you could make would be to the United States turning away Jewish refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe aboard the St Louis and sending them back to their deaths because that same law used to keep my grandfather from becoming a citizen had been put in place specifically to keep more Jews and Asians from coming into the country.
Like, the United States is not “becoming Nazi Germany” all of a sudden. This is not some aberrant “UnAmerican” behaviour. This is the United States being the United States, doing what the U.S. has always done from the moment of its inception.
Also, as one of my FB friends said on this topic recently: “Nazi Germany was not famous for cruelty toward asylum seekers, it was famous for making millions of asylum seekers and then murdering millions including many from my family.”
There is no good reason to constantly trot out bad Holocaust comparisons when we know damn well this is the same inhumane bullshit America was fucking built on. Hitler, Nazis, and The Holocaust are not just shorthand for “the government being really bad.” It was a specific atrocity that devastated the Jewish and Romani communities of this world, and you don’t need to constantly devalue it and re-traumatise Jews and Roma over and over again when you can just as easily condemn the heinous way asylum seekers at the US border are being treated by saying the United States is still in the business of systematic oppression and has not learnt anything from its own appalling history.
ELECTRIC CARS WON’T FIX SHIT
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WON’T SAVE ANYBODY
But we’re always told to “get over it, it happened centuries ago, get over it.” Yeah, uh-huh. SHUT UP.
From the same company that said water isn’t a basic human right comes an open admission that they are LITERALLY SLAVE TRADERS
Boycott Nestle
It is impossible to boycott Nestlé. They have such a tangled network of wholey owned subsidiaries that they make something like half the processed food sold in American grocery stores under varions other brand names.
Practically the only way to boycott Nestlé is to be a subsistence farmer or not buy any food that isn’t locally produced.
I usually try to avoid Nestle, mainly only when products blatantly say “Nestle” on them because as you said they own a ton of brands you wouldn’t even know they own.
although it feels overwhelming, these are some companies that you can start boycotting or trying to drastically limit your purchases with these brands if you have the financial ability or means to do so. our power as consumers is enormous but these large corporations want you to give up the idea of boycotting before you even try. we cannot be complacent in the face of human rights abuse.
I’m having an aneurism
Wow just wow.
What the fuck man
Sources in case y’all want/ need em: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-42038451
please bring awareness to these crimes against humanity and see how we are contributing to the slave trade by better understanding how many slaves are working for you: http://slaveryfootprint.org/mobile2.html
@allthecanadianpolitics Some flag/symbol information so you can know the racists.
Thanks for the heads up, and before anyone goes ‘There’s no nazi’s in Canada!”, yes, yes there are:
Know your enemy
So real quick before people say it’s a right thing. The gadsen flag or “don’t tread on me flag” is also the war flag for anti terrorism. The navy uses it as our Union Jack and some people have it on their vehicles to symbolize that. Not necessarily racism. Just my two cents. Everything else is spot on though!
this is brilliantly informative! thank you so much!
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Read this 👆🏾
Historically they have been just as involved in upholding white supremacy and racism as their male counterparts.
Theres an article about MODERN alt right women
Many of these women came into the alt-right initially as anti-feminists. “They were people who felt that the feminist progressive agenda was not serving them — in some cases they felt like it was actively disregarding them because they wanted more traditional things: home, family, etc.,” she says. “And they came into the movement through that channel and then ultimately adopted more pro-white and white nationalist views.”
This is an archived link https://archive.is/Y6eJC
it’s so easy to just put everything on white men but white women has never been innocent bystanders of white supremacy either
