BooksAndLetters

I’m in penne

Actually sad I only discovered Obsidian a few months ago

I am using a shortcut to open a list of my preferred multireddits in Safari. I have the Noir dark mode app and old Reddit. only way it is bearable for me. Hard to abandon certain niche communities, but I realise in time, Reddit will become worse, and I will have to abandon it all together.

Economic forces are always going to welfare wash and treat these poor sentient beings solely based on the bottom line instead of their actual wellbeing. Please don’t increase demand for their childrens and grandchildrens suffering.

It is very actionable to vote with their wallet and mouth and not eat meat. The “can’t save them all, so why bother”-argument is really sad. I don’t think most people would apply that logic, if they saw a child in distress, because so many children die every day of preventable causes. Every sentient being matter.

If people aren’t buying factory farmed animal products, the agricultural industry wouldn’t still be using awful practices. The supply and demand chain is complicated and the agricultural industry can choose different levers than lowering production, but those different levers would result in lower profit either for example by higher advertisement spending or lowering prices. Over time with a sustained vegan effect, the market would correct itself, since companies hate losing money and will pursue more profitable alternatives, and fewer animals would be slaughtered.

Your own wallet is a very large vote. But voting in elections or advocating for change in other ways are of course also very important. They shouldn’t exclude each other.

People are allowed to do with their body as it pleases, as long as they don’t hurt anyone. There are quite a few scenarios, where I don’t think you would agree with your own statement.

Yeah, this is fucking good

I’ll take the most irrelevant ads in the world, please. I don’t want to be manipulated.

Breathtaking. What I would pay to visit a café from that time.

I usually make this to imitate the traditional Danish Christmas food:

Boil potatoes and carrots and use the stock to make a brown sauce: https://gastrofun.dk/opskrift/vegansk-brun-sovs/ (use Google Translate or similar)

You would have to make some kind of meat substitute. You can make a nutty pie or maybe some Seitan-based meat.

Serve with salty crisps (to dip into the brown sauce), pickled cucumber salad and red kale salad (either raw with oranges or cooked in vinegar and sugar. Maybe look up a recipe).

Also I tend to make some brown potatoes. Heat sugar in a pan, add lots of vegan butter and toss and turn the cooked potatoes into the mix.

Merry Christmas ;)