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🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼🍼Despite years of propaganda and media manipulation, here is a list of reasons why you do NOT need to drink milk. 

1. Cows have to be pregnant to produce milk, their babies are forcefully taken from them at birth, so that the milk meant for the baby calve can be sold for human consumption. Cows have stronger maternal instincts than humans do and they cry for days after this separation. This cycle is repeated yearly until the grieving mother cow is sent to slaughter after about 4 years of being forcefully artificially inseminated and can no longer produce milk. A cows natural life span would normally be about 20 years. Veganism is also feminism. You cannot be a feminist, yet support the dairy industry. 

2. The idea that you need to drink milk from a cow to have strong bones is a complete lie told by the dairy industry, which is a multi billion dollar corporation. in order for your body to neutralize the acidity in milk, it actually takes calcium out of your bones to do this. The countries with the highest consumption of dairy have the highest rates of osteoporosis. There is a reason why 1/3 of the population is lactose intolerant. 

3. If people are offended by women breastfeeding their own child in public, why is it then considered normal for humans to drink the milk of another species in public?  

4. When you are drinking milk you are also drinking millions of pus cells and antibiotics. 

5. “Free range” is another lie to make you feel better about yourself as a consumer. 

6. You do not need milk from a cow any more than you need milk from a dog, a zebra or an elephant.

7. Cows are beautiful and gentle souls and they did nothing to deserve this shit. 

8. Choosing to think for yourself is empowering and liberating and everyone has the choice not to believe everything they are told. 

🐮🌈🐮🌈🐮🌈🐮🌈🐮 #realtalk #compassion #kindness #sustainability #healthy #saynotomilk #animalsarefriends #feminism #veganism #vegan #plantbased #dairy #dairyindustry #evilcorporations #trewworldorder #cows #milk #govegan #goveg #plantbased #veganmeme #notyourmomnotyourmilk #moo

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“you don’t get the protein from being a vegan/vegetarian”

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The perfect response to “Where do you get your protein?” 

Vegetables, bitch.

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Even environmentalist agencies hide one of the easiest solutions for combating climate change. I can change, you can change, everyone can change. That’s what makes us human.

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A collection of powerful videos you might want to check out.

Philip Wollen: Animals Should Be Off The Menu Debate Earthlings* Skin Trade* Meet Your Meat* Bold Native* The Cove* Sharkwater* Forks Over Knives Vegucated Fat Sick and Nearly Dead Films for Action Holocaust on a Conveyor Belt What a Difference a Day Makes (music by Moby) Speciesism: The Movie* The Ghosts in our Machine* Blackfish ~Edit: I’ve added your suggestions below: The Gerson Miracle Food Inc. River of Waste Food Matters Gary Yourofsky’s Inspirational Speech at Georgia Tech Peaceable Kingdom More than Honey Death on a Factory Farm Hungry for Change The Beautiful Truth The Meatrix Maximum Tolerated Dose Behind the Mask* Frankensteer Revolution Cowspiracy

*Some of these videos contain graphic material. I’ve marked the ones I know of.

Do you have any favourites you’d like to add?

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Added Philip Wollen’s incredible speech. ^^

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I’ve only seen Cowspiracy and Gary Yourofsky’s speech from this list. But I stay up on most of Dr. McDougall, Dr. McGregor, Dr. Lisle, and Dr. Campbell’s speeches. I’m a big psychology fan so Dr. Lisle is my personal favorite to listen to, even though all of his speeches are the same. Alan Goldhamer, the man he coauthored his book, the Pleasure Trap, with  is a very charismatic individual who speaks more like a cult leader and while I appreciate his enthusiasm and perspective, I don’t like that sort of fanaticism. I find Lisle much more reasonable and a friendlier, more relatable speaker. For me veganism was a logical choice before an emotional choice, so I like those types of spokespeople. 

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Whole Wheat Burger Buns | Holy Cow! Vegan Bread Recipes

A fool-proof recipe for whole wheat burger buns to cradle that perfect burger. Try this with my quinoa and bean burger for a perfect grilled treat.

I am going to make my first veggie burgers this weekend. Personally, I’m a bit shocked it’s taken this long, but I know exactly why. There’s an on campus burger place that sells veg burgers and sweet potato fries and I used to get my veg fix going there every Tuesday evening with my best friend. So that’s how I got my fix. Although I recently read an article discussing exactly what vegetable oil IS (I’ll talk about that in another post) I really didn’t mind the fattening oils they used to make the food, although I probably should have been repulsed by the fact that the same grill my veg burger was cooked on had seen more meat in that day than my dinner plate in the 19 years before veganism. Sometimes if you don’t want to acknowledge that you’re doing something wrong, your brain just ignores those “what ifs”, justifies, and lets you move on with your life.

But now I’m legitimately trying to improve my health and follow the Starch Solution as closely as possible, so I want to get away from the processed foods and make my own. Plus the home made version not only makes you feel good about yourself, it’s a feather in your cap for that accomplishment, but also ensures no nasty preservatives are in your bread. 

So I’m going to make the bread dough, y’know let it rise while the yeast bacterias eat the sugar and all that, and pop the bread in the oven with the burgers. I think it’s absurdly difficult to sit there and smell the delicious fresh yumminess of the first half of your recipe while the other half is still half an hour away. I try to time everything so it comes out at the same time, and am skilled enough to do that sort of juggling in the kitchen. (Thanks mom.)

The recipe consists of what is in my fridge right now (assuming everything stays good. I might make this sooner if my cilantro starts wilting):

1. block firm tofu

2. 1 cup pinto beans

3. half yellow onion

4. probably a cup of cilantro (why not make it a GREEN veggie burger? I made guac for a party this weekend and had a ton of cilantro left over)

5. flax seed + water (I’ve read you should use silken tofu as a binding agent, but I don’t have that, so I’m using flax seed and water instead which is an egg substitute so it should work. I hope.)

6. 1 head garlic. (I fucking love garlic. Don’t care what anybody says.)

7. a couple carrots. (I had a party and have left over carrots from hummus dipping.)

Spices: Salt, cumin, oregano, paprika, black pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic powder (as needed, did I say I love garlic?)

I use this spice combination on most things. Light on the salt though because, well, I’m supposed to be following the starch solution plan and all.

So I’m going to soak the beans and all that, mash them up, throw everything in my blender (I’ve made those flax-oat-cacao-date balls in there, so I know its lowest setting is good enough for food processing), then I’ll spray olive oil pam on everything and a cookie sheet and pop these suckers in the oven at 375 degrees for twenty five minutes. I’ll let you know how it turns out and what changes I make, I’m writing the recipe down so if I need to I can take a look at it later.

I’ll probably sautee some jalapenos and spinach, chop up tomatoes and the remaining quarter of onion, with mustard and ketchup to top the burger.

Good luck to anyone reading this that tries it, my mouth is watering an hour after breakfast while writing this.

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James Hansen Spells Out Climate Danger Of The ‘Hyper-Anthropocene’ Age

James Hansen and 16 leading climate experts have written a must-read discussion paper on what humanity risks if it can’t keep total global warming below 2°C (3.6°F). The greatest risk they identify is “that multi-meter sea level rise would become practically unavoidable.”

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Go fucking vegan because the meat and dairy industries produce more methane than all of transportation combined. Your tastebuds aren’t worth the end of our world. You can’t be an environmentalist and eat meat.

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Plant-Based Diet for Fitness | Vegan Recipes & Nutrition | Vegan Fitness & Running

I just found this blog, and I love it. I have been making the vegan change since January, so it’s close to the beginning of my 8th month as a “vegan”. I’ve taken a few weeks off of veganism when I went home, and each time I returned feeling guilty and all around like crap for making bad decisions, thus renewing my motivation to stick with veganism. Finally it boiled down to “alright when I go out to eat on weekends with friends, I won’t be vegan.” and a brownie addiction wherein I’d eat a box of brownies over a week thus making that whole week not vegan. Some time last week I was eating meat at JimmyJohn’s with a friend and I looked down and was horrified that I hadn’t even stopped to think at the register. I had thought, I am going out, I can eat meat, it’s okay. 

I stopped. Then, after getting a stomach bug and being chained to my bed by nausea I watched this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJvrlwnEqbs and my resolve doubled. I also committed to running a marathon in April 2016. So now I’m looking at buying better running shoes, and at how my nutrition might have to change, because I sure as hell am not running a marathon 40lbs overweight. So I have to lose weight and start training. I suppose some people might say it’s too much change at once, but hey, different things work for different people.

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Fight Club

So the other night I was watching fight club and talking about it with a coworker at work. I have a temporary job as an intern somewhere I will never work again, but is a good learning experience and provides a pay check for the summer. I have no interest in ever having a boring desk job again, I can’t handle working at a desk for eight hours straight. I like moving too much. And I fidget constantly. But he and I were talking and he said, I wonder what my Tyler Durden is like. I said you don’t know? 

People today are repressed because the modern world has changed what is required. It demands that people sit down like little pea pods and do work. In reality, we could probably write computer programs to do their boring desk jobs. Let the machines take over so you can sit and drool in front of a computer screen watching Netflix for five hours at a time, you pathetic sea cucumber. If you don’t understand why that’s an insult, look up sea cucumbers. The US isn’t what it used to be, it is a fat, lazy nation of people fucked over by the government who work hard making nothing, doing nothing, just flipping burgers because the service industry employs millions. We have more people serving than making. You know what happens down the road? We become Greece. We become Spain. We get soft, we become complacent with our technological luxuries and these things become normal, expected, ingrained in our society. Herodotus’ a History addresses this. You know why the Persians failed? Because Xerxes saw Greek luxury and said that’s cool, let’s do that. And it made them soft and weak, and open to attack, and susceptible to the mental disease of the wealthy called stupidity and insanity. You get disconnected from reality if you have too much money, too much comfort. You need manual labor, you need sweat and exertion, and most of all you need fear. Because if you live your life without ever feeling adrenaline, you turn to destructive, illegal habits because you can’t get that feeling anywhere else. 

Tyler Durden had a purpose and no inhibitions. He could do what it took to achieve his goals. You want to be like that? There’s no switch that automatically resolves your problems. You build confidence by making small steps, most of the time. (I’m a fan of just straight up jumping out of the comfort zone but that requires money most of the time.) You just see what you want your life to be and start making changes to get there. You want to be like a person? Then start acting like them. 

Most people are too bound up by society, their internal world governed by society’s rules instead of their own. They’re scared of what might happen if they let things fall by the way side. Because they’re programmed to care about stuff they don’t actually care about. Take a look at your life and evaluate what you need, what you don’t. My experience with this is my three bitchy roommates who hate their lives and what they’re doing right now. They’ve never had to actually study before and now they’re in a masters level gross anatomy class so they have to study now. So the growing pains are making them extra grumpy and mean, and they take it out on our fifth roommate. They approach studying like it’s something they have to do to pass this class to get their degree. They’re looking at it wrong. Anyone would be miserable to have to work for the sake of working. One thing I like about the Punk movement is that they get people to see things differently, shake them up and out of their box. Society is trying to force you into this mould but if you decide to push back and make your own space, you can do it. That’s why I love One Piece. It emphasizes willpower to pursue what you want when the world tells you you’re wrong, and how freeing it can be to follow your decisions to do that.

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Teens Make Film In Broken English To Explain Why They'll Fail English

Three high schoolers in Zanzibar have won a prize for a film tackling a fierce debate in African classrooms: Should the teacher instruct in English or the mother tongue?

So I fundamentally believe that one should clean your own house before cleaning another, because you’ll just be tracking your mud into the other house to help. But I also think that when it comes to sustainability, the entire world has to advance to succeed. I want everyone to succeed, and since first world countries are destroying the planet and these people don’t even know about it, they should be given a voice. Giving them a voice might prove even more effective because creating dead zones in the ocean has a life or death impact on fishing communities like this one. There is no way our toxic waste dumping has a positive effect on them, and they have no power to do anything about it because of a language barrier so high they can only dream about the other side. This is the part where I am telling you that this far off village matters to you, and I am appealing to your self-interested bubble if you are not empathetic enough for the video to make an impact.

Immersion is a valid teaching tool. I learned French in a classroom where only French was spoken, with only French text books. I learned Spanish with only Spanish speaking teachers in Spain, and lived with an elderly crazy cat lady (I love her) who only spoke Spanish. So I think immersion is important. The difference is that while, yes, English qualifies as a Germanic language, it has many similarities in terms of word placement and root words. Plus French and Spanish are very easy languages to learn. I also had teachers who had taught for many years and had PhDs in education. I am very lucky.

They are short on teachers. How can you supply teachers if you do not have a working education system? The best way to learn a language is from a native speaker, however if the native speaker doesn’t speak your language it also poses problems. When teaching a language you must understand the cultural background of the ones learning in order to communicate effectively. You have to be on the same wavelength. So shipping in English speakers isn’t a good idea either. No one writes textbooks in Swahili, do they? They would probably be too expensive to mass distribute. You need education to build infrastructure, money to educate, and infrastructure to make money. I don’t know enough about history to say how America became as influential as it did, but I know advancements in Europe and speaking the same language to effectively collaborate, in many ways via competition, and ultimately advance. The people of Zanzibar and African countries like them are in a different place, where the other countries are so far ahead and they don’t have the tools to keep up yet. I make no claims about intelligence or desire or any characteristic of the people, only about opportunities we’ve been given because of our public education system because we were lucky to be born where we are. Does anyone have any ideas? The ultimate question is:

How can they deliver an effective English education?

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WOMEN OF POWER is a series of 29 portraits and interviews of modern-day Polish witches, healers, enchantresses, visionaries and spiritual leaders.

So I saw an article about this on Facebook and went, wow, you know, I don’t remember the last time I thought about my Spirituality. Even Plato discussed the fact that a person has spiritual needs, in addition to emotional and physical ones. The fact that every population in the world has some form of religion entwined with their culture proves that. 

I act according to my morals and reflect upon them daily. I feel like my morals have been slapped awake through my becoming “vegan”. I don’t know if spirituality and morality are the same thing, but if you define spirituality as a communication between yourself and your idealistic beliefs, whether it be in a deity, capitalism, or marijuana, then I guess I’d call your moral stance the path you set before yourself. You make decisions based on this path you’ve set for yourself, and the spiritual component is looking ahead to see that end goal and reflecting upon how you feel about that. But I’m also a terribly practical person, so my mindset is that you should always be moving forward towards something, which some people might define as having nothing to do with spirituality. Get over it, I’m all about forward momentum, personal growth, and enlightenment. But don’t worry, I know I’m ignorant and that I’ll never be anything but ignorant, because there will always be more to learn than I could know in a lifetime. That’s a tangent, though.

Are we out of touch, as women, with our spirituality?

If you answered no to that question, you are a man. I live in a first world country and know that women are tragically repressed. I have to put on a bra every day, and shave my armpits, and deal with being catcalled constantly. Ever think I want to just walk down the street without a line of creepy middle aged working men staring at my ass? I know I am fabulous, but please, at least make some attempt to disguise your panting, slobbering libido. Yet at the same time if I went and fucked the whole neighborhood I’d be “damaged goods”. I’d be dirty, unclean, diseased, immoral. If I stand up for my rights and tell you to fuck off when you cat call, I become a FemiNazi. (As a German I really don’t like that label). My body, my rights hasn’t been around long enough to permeate the majority mentality. You still have that knee-jerk reaction to someone who walks around in just a bandeau and high heels while laughing loudly with men. You can’t help it. 

We still have those archaic morals, but when is the last time you went to Church? God is vilified in pop culture. Being a “good christian” is no longer the ideal image. Now I know not everyone is Christian but most people used to be. Nowadays the time you could have spent thinking about God was spent thinking about how fat you are, how no one loves you, how Kim’s ass is unattainable, how XYZ posted something stupid on facebook, or about funny cat videos. Your social media devours your time, with your chances of spiritual reflection adding that slightly sweet, smoked flavour, sort of like Paprika. If you spend time by yourself, disconnected, you’re infinitely more likely to have an opinion that matters, and more likely to know how you feel about things. If you know you’re unfulfilled you can go embrace whatever deity floats your boat. Personally, I think I want to go learn something about Wicca. That sounds cool. We threw the baby out with the bathwater when we decided Christian morals were oppressive and we didn’t like God. We lost an important social structure and spiritual outlet.

You have fear of harm, sexual repression, and entertainment clamouring for your attention. The world is coming to an end, I recommend disconnecting and embracing nature because it won’t be there for long. We’re so out of touch we think being fit, young and beautiful is the end-all be-all. Or maybe your family is your focus, if that’s your cup of coffee. Well whatever you are doing I recommend attempting to commune with your higher power for true satiation in life, because when people lack satiety they become perverted. They change, and become constantly hungry, looking for new distractions and things to make them full. You get some truly messed up people in those situations. It’s almost the same as being a zealot. Which is never good. Who wants to be a zealot?

So go hug some trees, light a smudge stick, do your sun salutations, have great sex, drink a mimosa, read the Qur’an. Just don’t eat any animals or bring your phone.

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More Than an Apple a Day: Combating Common Diseases | NutritionFacts.org

Dr. Greger has scoured the world's scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this brand-new live presentation on the latest in cutting-edge research on how a healthy diet can affect some of our most common medical conditions.

I love his sarcasm, and note that if anyone is put off by his sass the reason he is so incredulous is likely the bureaucracy he has to put up with in his line of work. All the red tape our government has because money is tied up with your health so they legally cannot say what is good for you. Even if you don’t believe in veganism or vegetarianism, can’t you imagine that our messed up legal system would create the perfect environment for these circumstances?

I’ll also remind you that our way of life is not sustainable. If you don’t care about the animals, you don’t care about your heart health, at least make changes because you care about whether or not you’ll live to eighty.

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Profiling in St. Louis

Today, the Department of Public Safety was informed about an incident that occurred around 3:50 a.m. on Sunday June 21, 2015 on the Scott Hall parking lot at XXXX Olive in downtown St. Louis.

A XXX student and her companion were approached by two unknown suspects on the parking lot. The suspects both brandished a weapon and demanded the student’s companion's wallet. The student's companion complied, and the suspects fled north on 13th Street. The student and her companion were not injured.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department was called and is investigating.

Both suspects are described as black males, 17-20 years old.  One subject is 5'11"-6' tall and the second subject is 6'2" tall.  Both are dark complected, wearing dark colored basketball shorts and one subject was carrying a drawstring backpack.  

In light of this incident, DPS would like to share some important safety tips.

Before an incident occurs:  

·         Walk with others whenever possible, especially at night.

·         Remain alert and aware of your surroundings.

·         Scan parking lots, sidewalks and streets for suspicious persons or activity.

·         Look confident and purposeful when you walk.

·         Report any suspicious activity or persons on campus to DPS by calling XXX-XXX-XXXX.

I took out the addresses and phone numbers, but I received this email this morning. Generally, during the school year, we get a few of these notifications a month. The description of the suspects is always the same. Young adult males, tall, and dark complected. Generally depending on the weather they’re wearing a hoodie or basketball shorts. 

Now, in downtown St. Louis we do have a crime problem, some of it is linked to heroine. Also, if you look at the statistical demographics as of 2013 the white alone population percentage was 43.5% (not including latino or hispanics) vs. the black population of 47.9%. Statistically that means there are more people with dark skin, so if you took the crime statistics of any city and mapped them according to race obviously you’ll have more blacks committing crimes than in other regions because more black people live here. This is ignoring cultural patterns, the event of white flight, and the poverty line in the city. 

Suspect description consistency has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with location and demographics, and also has nothing to do with police bias. Do you think if I went to school in New York they would always be white males?

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Do We Need Philosophers?

In response to NPR’s most recent article:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/06/22/416368227/why-we-need-philosophers-engaged-in-public-life

As someone who was raised in a liberal arts curriculum where Socrates and Descartes were regarded as gods, I have this deeply rooted love of philosophy. The same high school perpetuated the notion that if you don’t interact with the ancient ideas and haven’t read the major and most influential texts of history you cannot properly discuss philosophy. 

While logic is fundamentally the same, the way we distribute ideas and the way criticism works has entirely changed. Thanks to the internet one's honor is not staked with their opinion, but at the same time the world is your public forum. Also, unlike word of mouth oratory, there is a permanent record of your opinions in video or text stored forever in the recesses of the internet. Voicing your opinions could impact your future job opportunities. That said, if you've read the five dialogues, or have any notion of history, you know that great minds have always been in danger. Socrates was put to death for his attempts to educate. I think that most people would rather not read, myself included. It takes more effort to read than to listen to a youtube video. Which is stupid, because I grew up as a bookworm who read every book in the school library, then every book in the children's section of the library, then the young adult's section. Reading is easy! Listening is easier, because you can do other things at the same time. You don't have to actually put forth any effort to selectively hear. Moreover, very few have a desire to educate themselves. I didn't start actively reading or listening to the news until I was able to dial NPR into my morning schedule. Then there's the problem of my generation (the teens and 20somethings) knowing that our news sources are unreliable, and with the lack of trust in journalism comes the excuse not to exert effort to stay current. That's another problem for another post, though.

Philosophy is important. Thinking for yourself is important. Critical thinking is a skill, and you have to get in the habit of doing it to be any good at it. It's a lot easier to solve a problem if you do it regularly. Like, if you're doing a math problem, and you took calculus in high school but it's been five years since you took the derivative of anything. The highschool kid still taking calculus will solve it faster because the connections are there, and used regularly.

In the spirit of thinking about things, I'll respond to the issues mentioned in the article. 1. The woman pretending to be black was "outed" as white. We have a bill on transgender bathrooms up for debate for people who "pretend" to be a man or a woman when they aren't, and while many people dislike the idea of a man or woman being something they're not, how is this any different? The woman identifies as black, let her be black. You can't call for one standard, and then apply a completely different way of thinking. That's why legal precidents are so important when a lawyer preps for court. Consistency in the legal system is necessary. The reason we are a democratic republic is to establish some sort of consistency in thought for the nation to create laws.

Personally, I'm a firm believer in being whoever I want to be. Not to mention that whether I identify as white, Mexican, black, rainbow, grimm reaper unicorn fairy, if it's not hurting you it doesn't matter. I still pay taxes. Probably more than you.

2. White supremacist shooting in a church. I live in St. Louis. My best friend lives and works in Fergueson. I'm from Arizona and went to a highschool with five black kids out of a hundred. And two of them were Nigerian, and definitively "not black", according to them. White, black, it doesn’t matter what your skin colour is to me, although I can appreciate it as beautiful and unique. Oh, the duality. Your culture and skin colour have no correlation, quit mixing them up. All lives matter up until they start harming the lives of others. 

Would you like to be a slave? No. Right, slavery is wrong. We've established that. In the US, African slaves are no longer imported and sold. They fought for their equal rights and received them. Now they're subject to profiling by the police, and social media has cooked up a hot bed of ignorance and rage. Gee, I really wish we knew how social change occured. Oh wait, we do. It's this new-fangled idea called education. The government is obligated to provide free education because our forefathers knew it was vital for innovation, expansion, and success of the nation. Due to demographics, money, and our culture it is no longer valued. Our people cannot afford college educations, and we pay for it with our hopeful futures. Capitolism epitomizes the belief that the one who can make the best decision about what to do with your money is you. However, when the government comes in and says "you need car insurance, health insurance, and to pay for the roads you drive on," and you say, "I make $7.80 an hour, if I alot my money according to your demands I will watch my children starve," then Capitolism is broken and so is our legal system, and when you have entire impoverished areas that are one race, one culture people correlate poverty with race and start thinking things like "they're lazy," "they're poor," "they're dirty." You can't fight that kind of bigotry with reason. Unreasonable people generally have little to no first hand experience. It's a conditioned gut reaction. The only way you can solve that is by making that gut reaction socially unacceptable.

Are bras comfortable? No. Do you still wear one? If you're female you probably do. Why? Because it's socially unacceptable for you to flop around like a free fish and have your nipples say hello. Go a day without a bra. You'll feel dirty, slutty, wrong. You'll hope no one you know sees you.

That is social change at its finest. You want to solve this problem? Raise your expectations of others' morals. And don't back down. Rape shouldn't be a joke, suicide shouldn't be gossip, and racism shouldn't be a thought. And any defenses regarding being scientifically and genetically different are baseless because there's no physical reason to wear a bra. The fact of physical difference has no bearing.

3. I’m a vegan 98% of the time because climate change is LITERALLY EVERYTHING YOU KNOW. You will not live to be eighty if we do not change. It’s that important. Get your facts together and think with your self preservation skills. This should be priority number one. Sustainable energy is important, but if everyone cut down meat consumption by 10%, particularly beef, we could end world hunger and add at least fifty years to the planet’s lifespan. It’s that important. Change now or die.