gay people arent real. go back to sleep

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[xtec]

This is what the average YouTube thumbnail looks like now

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

friend of mine recommended a video essay that's like 5 hours long about why it's currently a whole Thing for fascists to claim they only eat meat and demonize vegetables etc etc, and it's genuinely quite well researched in many places and contains some fascinating history and has made me feel very weird about my status as an adult who enjoys drinking milk. but I've not finished it and I genuinely don't know if I will because at one point the ol' "you can't say you care about animals and also eat animals" chestnut got dropped by the white vegan essayist and it put such a bad taste in my mouth that I had to leave instantly

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

like idk man it just feels genuinely parodic to dedicate hours to analyzing how foodways have frequently been used as white supremacist propaganda and then casually toss out an argument that pretty invariably demonizes indigenous hunting practices with 0 regard for traditional knowledge and land stewardship guiding those practices

[tut557]

Their defense of veganism not being anti-indigenous cultures was, as a whole, kinda bad. Also, they try to imply peta isn't a cesspit and that people dislike it due to psyops. Ridiculous.

Different critique, but that's for like 90% of texts in english about the topic: Meat consumption isn't correlated with Brazil cutting down forests. What do I mean by that? Most of the land we gain by cutting the forest sits unused for YEARS, because its primary use isn't soy or meat production; it's speculation.

Let me repeat it: they don't cut the trees because people are eating more meat and need more space for cows; they cut it down so they can have that land as an asset to sell later. Of course, if the world stopped eating meat, the dynamic would change, and maybe the cutting would stop(doubtful, because it's also for the wood), but what I meant to say is that how much meat we eat isn't directly correlated with how much forest is cut, those too things are uncupled from one another, the meat consumption may go down and the deforestation may still go up.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I was genuinely gagged about the PETA thing like. okay. I'm with you about shady corporate image laundering! that's real! but PETA has also for real done shit like compare eating meat to slavery and the Holocaust, dress up like the KKK, and blatantly suggested that drinking milk causes autism. that's not a psyop that's just PETA being a shitshow.

[pmamtraveller]

The Pearl With The Girl Earring by Olaf Falafel

[wayneradiotv]

this needs its own post

[bananonbinary]

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

[bananonbinary]

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

[closet-keys]

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

[aloofraven]

I think it should be noted that the Food Empowerment Project specifically only lists companies making "at least one vegan chocolate product" and that they only ask about the companies' vegan chocolates specifically. Their list is not an exhaustive resource for every type of chocolate.

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

Before I found that link I was curious as to why I didn't see any Norwegian manufacturers on their list(which makes sense now, as their chocolates are almost exclusively milk chocolate) and looked up where our companies source their chocolate from and found Nidar gets theirs from the Rainforest Alliance and Freia from Cocoa Life, both of which have been under scrutiny for not preventing child labour and not paying farmers a living wage among other things. So it appears Norwegian chocolate is out of the ethical picture.

[roninnozlo]

I stated this in the comments of the post already, but it’d probably be better to add it as a reblog, so it’s more visible and doesn’t need to be restated by anyone else in the future.

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa.  Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are ea

And it doesn’t have the vegan product restriction the other list has, which solves @aloofraven’s issue.

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[depsidase]

[theaceofwords]

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

[itsmissing]

[punkitt-is-here]

oh my god look at these unused susie sprites. she looks so gentle and friendly here wtf

[wholefamilydeadringerforsimpsons]

has this video made its way over here yet

[dragamation]

New Si Land chapter very good

[punkitt-is-here]

NO MORE MANLY TANK x WAIFISH BOTTOM HEALER WE ARE MAKING THAT TWINK DRAW AGGRO

[actualized-animal]

every chapter of deltarune has a secret npc who only appears if you leave and re-enter the room 1225 times while you have a bagel in your seventh inventory slot and the npc is a sentient doorknob and when you talk to them the music cuts out and they’re like “who’s that whispering in the trees, it’s two sailors and they’re on leave, pipes and chains and swinging hands, who’s your daddy, yes i am” and then within four hours there’s a thirty minute long video on youtube titled “ASGORE IS FRIEND??? DADDY THEORY EXPLAINED” and it already has 100,000 views and then a year later people call the next chapter disappointing because it was focusing too much on developing the main characters instead of explaining the doorknob guy

[tatzelwurming]

not now thrall there’s a hurricane

[playwrongs]

Stephen King’s Fujo

[kungfunurse]

yeah @sunderwight these tags are gold

[coughloop]

why are people submitting asks with skulls? to be scary? 👣

...can you put your shoes back on

[elumish]

My take for the day is that the straight romance novel "evil annoying mean-girl fashionable shrew who is trying to get the male love interest" and the slash fiction "canon female love interest turned evil shrew who is trying to get her canon male love interest" are exactly the same type of misogyny.

[elumish]

At the same time, straight romance novel "sycophantic female best friend whose main characterization is being not quite as good at anything as the main character and being there to cheerlead the main character's romantic and/or other pursuits" and slash fiction "canon female love interest or other female character turned overly invested sassy best friend who is primarily there to cheerlead or orchestrate the main character's romantic relationship" are exactly the same type of misogyny.

[elumish]

On the other hand, straight romance novel "I'm the only girl around because no other girl has been *special* enough to make it" and slash fiction "there are no women" are different types of misogyny.

[elumish]

Anyway neither fanfiction nor original fiction inherently have any sort of special misogyny or lack thereof, and both spaces have a lot of opportunities to work on writing women better.