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My favorite blog, The Vegan Ideal is still online! I didn't know this until today, so I'm posting the link in case anyone else is having trouble finding it. http://veganideal.mayfirst.org/

#ida hammer #the vegan ideal #veganism

Much of the rhetoric around gun control reminds me of the rhetoric around animal 'welfare'. Just as welfare takes veganism off the table, gun control -- in the sense of gun regulation -- takes the abolition of firearms off the table as a topic of discussion. Guns were built for exactly two purposes. One is to kill other-than-human animals. And the other purpose is to threaten, intimidate, and when deemed necessary, kill, human animals. It's dismaying to see so many progressives and radicals who accept that the gun will always be with us. No, guns won't go away overnight. But they won't go away at all unless we start to work for their abolition now. Gun ownership, no matter how 'responsible', feeds an industry built on paranoia, institutionalized oppression, and speciesism.

#intersectionality #gun abolition #veganism

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“… Many people say that the only foods which contain vitamin B12 are animal-derived foods. This also is untrue. No foods naturally contain vitamin B12 - neither animal or plant foods. Vitamin B12 is a microbe - a bacteria - it is produced by microorganisms. Vitamin B12 is the only vitamin that contains a trace element - cobalt - which gives this vitamin its chemical name - cobalamin - which is at the centre of its molecular structure. (…) there is B12 in any food that contains quantities of the B vitamin complex (…) vitamin B12 can be destroyed by highly alkaline and highly acid conditions. This assumes that the B12 in meat would be easily destroyed because the hydrochloric acid in our stomachs during the digestion of meat is highly acidic. This may explain why meat-eaters are just as likely to have a B12 deficiency as vegans (…) another problem for meat-eaters is that there are normally antiobiotics in meat plus the fact that many meat-eaters destroy their friendly bacteria in their intestines by constant putrefaction and the putrefactive bacteria naturally present in meat will give the body a hard time.”

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Where I'm coming from: 8 years eschewing all B-12 fortified processed foods (soy milk, nutritional yeast, energy bars, ect). 18 years vegan. No B-12 supplements in my 32 years of life. Not a hardcore health purist -- I eat cooked food, sometimes processed food, and use spices on occasion -- but I like to keep my diet relatively clean. Mine may not be the right lifestyle for everyone. I would never make that claim. And I don't expect a merit badge. But I'm not alone in thriving without supplements or fortification; in the fruitarian/811/natural hygiene community, it's fairly common. Meanwhile, mainstream vegan orgs and vegan nutritionists like to say that /everyone/ needs a B-12 supplement. This is a problem. It's a problem because not everyone wants to supplement; because not everyone can access supplements or fortified foods; and most importantly, because it isn't true. It's a game of telephone: in the popular literature and advocacy websites, 'many' becomes 'all'. 'recommended' becomes 'required'. 'what we've measured' becomes 'all there is'. As a result, there's a gap between the model and the reality. And into that gap falls, well, me, along with several of my friends and acquaintances. Yes, your concerns about modern soil quality and the effects of antibiotics on intrinsic factor are worth looking into. But those concerns, and whatever hypotheses you draw from them, do not override my lived experience. You'd be a better advocate for veganism if you acknowledged the real plurality and complexity of vegan nutrition, rather than attempting to stuff us all into one homogenized, vitamin-fortified box.

John Sanbonmatsu on the trouble w/locavore politics

http://www.zcommunications.org/blood-and-soil-lierre-keith-michael-pollan-and-the-trouble-with-locavore-politics-by-john-sanbonmatsu I don't like his whorephobia, but otherwise this article rocks my world.

#speciesism #vegan #ecology #socialism #capitalism #permaculture #locavore #globalism

Open letter to Dreamwidth News.

As a long-time supporter of dreamwidth.org, I'm troubled by their decision to give to Heifer International as part of their year-end charitable giving. Heifer is the wrong choice in terms of animal ethics, ecology, food security, and cultural sensitivity. See: http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-s-Wrong-With-the-Heif-by-Rev-Gary-Kowalski-091204-421.html http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/07/1/livestockgiftcharities1_07.html http://awellfedworld.org/heifer http://www.veganideal.org/content/heifer-international-more-hype-hope Additionally, Johanna @ Vegans Of Color writes: It’s not just about the environmental toll of meat, and the inefficiency of meat-based agriculture in addressing hunger, but also about the fact that many people of color (such as those in countries the Heifer Project focuses on) are lactose-intolerant. So pushing dairy cows on them is a stupid thing to do. In Heifer's place, please consider giving to organizations like Sustainable Harvest, VegFam, Plenty International, or A Well Fed World that fight hunger and food insecurity without using animals.

#animal rights #intersectionality

Awesome recreation of Goa Trance circa 1990 (but with better mixing). This is what I imagine 'back in the day' to sound like.

#goa trance #604 #old school goa

Time to go.

#san francisco

*hums Boney M*

I largely use discogs (and the absolutely cavernous Amoeba Records in L.A.) for my music shopping, but I have to admit that Rasputin is pretty cool. I didn't end up going into this one, but I did go into the San Francisco location, where I scored a rare compil (Goa Head 2) and a few other nice finds.

OTOH, the Berkeley Amoeba was disappointing. The original, and for some reason, the smallest of the three.

#berkeley #rekkids

I like reflections, did you know?

#berkeley

Charming passageway in Berkeley. We domestic primates like our fruit colored lights, yes we do.

#berkeley

And now we're in Berkeley.

Don't let the relative niceness of the image fool you... it was cold, windy, grey, and overall nasty when I was there. But the pizza, macaroons, and fruit kanten at Green Earth Cafe made it all worthwhile. Give them your business!

http://greenearthcafeandbakery.com/

#berkeley #dumb travel slides #vegan

This futuristic building was part of the view from my hotel room window.

#san francisco #nightscapes

Yet another reflection.

#san francisco #japantown

#san francisco #makes sense

#san francisco #dumb travel slides

#san francisco

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