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Things food snobs are wrong about
- “Organic” isn’t better for you or for the environment. It actually means nothing of any significance at best and is sometimes even the more wasteful, more hazardous option.
- A shitload of “natural” food including a lot of imported produce is grown and harvested through slave labor in inhumane conditions.
- Pizza, fried chicken, french fries, fast food, candy bars and chips ARE nutritious. They are loaded with good things. Just because they have an abundance of excess fats and might not be healthy as a staple doesn’t mean they are “nutritionless” or that their calories are “empty.” Those are hokey buzzwords pushed by the people in charge of how much you pay for the alternatives.
- Eating healthier costs more. Much more. Looking down on people for their reliance on cheaper food is extremely classist and expecting everyone to be able to live off fresh veggies and cage-free meats is insultingly unrealistic in the modern world.
- “Processed” literally only means the food went through some kind of automated process. This can be literally the exact same thing a human being would have done to the food for it to be labeled “unprocessed.” Being processed does not make something less healthy.
- Chemicals with long, scary names are part of nature. An apple is full of compounds you probably can’t pronounce. A shorter ingredients label only means they didn’t bother listing all 300 things the product is actually made of and HAS to be made of.
- Preservatives, artificial flavors and other additives are not the devil. Most are harmless and in general they are part of the reason you haven’t already starved to death or died of a food borne illness.
- MSG is not bad for you at all.
- The fact that something might be made of “scrap” meats like pig snouts or chicken necks only means one thing: that we didn’t waste perfectly normal, edible meat.
- I DON’T KNOW HOW I FORGOT THIS IN MY FIRST VERSION OF THIS POST BUT GMO’S ARE NOT DANGEROUS TO EAT. GMO’S ARE SAVING LIVES. YOU’VE ALREADY EATEN GMO’S BEFORE YOU EVEN KNEW THE TERM. IT’S FINE. EAT THEM.
So I’ve literally done this twice before and so have several other people but here are sources on all of these, most of them fairly recent academic studies or otherwise the most up-to-date I could find:
- Organic food isn’t better for you: [1] [2] [3]
- Tracing food industry slave labor: [1]
- Healthier food is more expensive: [1] [2]
- Saturated fats (i.e. “junk food”) still provide needed energy, aren’t as bad as people thought: [1] [2]
- “Processed” isn’t synonymous with less healthy, because it means a lot of different things: [1]
- “Chemicals” also means a lot of things and many food components are misunderstood by the general public: [1]
- MSG is not harmful: [1] [2] [3]
- GMO’s are not dangerous to eat: [400 sources collected here]
The problem with forcibly seizing the assets of, say, Jeff Bezos is that his net worth of $161 billion does not mean he has that in cash. That’s the worth of everything he owns, including stock in his own company.
And the problem with seizing THAT is that it isn’t real. It’s based on confidence and what people might conceivably pay for it. And if you just seize it, that confidence tanks. And then that wealth evaporates.
The problem with capitalism isn’t that there’s a bunch of old dudes sitting on hoards of cash. It’s that they’ve collectively created a system by which they have ludicrous social and economic power based on the PROMISE of hoards of cash. That don’t exist. They have created a social stratum in which debt is money.
That’s why the exhortation is to SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, not GO GRAB ALL THE MONEY. Because the money isn’t real, and the need to go out and get it is blinding people to the fact that it doesn’t need to exist.
What if we kissed while i look deep into the abyss that are your eyes... u///u haha just kidding
Unless.........
That’s how we met. A bookshop in Paris. A woman introduces herself as Gertrude and tells me I do not want to purchase the book I’m perusing, as it’s impossibly bleak and, in the end, the protagonist is murdered! I spent my next decades hiding what I was reading, as she couldn’t help but spoil the ending of every novel or night at the theatre.
Anonymous asked:
Do you have any fantasy recs for wlw as well written as The Book of the Ancestor series (Red Sister, Grey Sister, Holy Sister) and Priory of the Orange Tree? Thanks so much for taking your time to do this!
lgbtqreads answered:
Oh yes - try Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar, Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear, and Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger, and keep an eye out for the upcoming Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton (January 7), Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (February 4), and Stormsong by C.L. Polk (February 11) in the next couple of months!
Also, if you’re open to stepping into YA, try Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan - I think it’s a good entry point. And whether or not you’re into YA at all, I cannot say enough about Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust, which comes out in May 2020 - I will not be shutting up about it, ever. I also highly recommend her Girls Made of Snow and Glass, which is also wlw, though the romance is a much smaller piece of the story.
Anonymous asked:
Hey! Could you recommend me f/f books about monsters/supernatural beings? Thank you.
lgbtqreads answered:
Sure! Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron has angels, In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard has dragons, Ash by Malinda Lo has fae, The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco has gods and goddesses, The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember, Moon-Bright Tides by RoAnna Sylver, and Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner have merfolk, all of these have shifters of some sort:
- Second Nature by Jae
- Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw
- Goldenseal by Gill McKnight
- Wild by Meghan O’Brien
- The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood
and these have vampires:
- The Ex-Wives of Dracula by Georgette Kaplan
- everafter by Nell Stark and Trinity Tram
- Carmilla by Kim Turrisi
- Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon
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