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[A kamayan feast using some of the recipes from veganfilipinofood.com! Kamayan (Tagalog for “by hand”) is a traditional Filipinx form of eating].

 Filipinx people have a long history of fighting for farm worker justice, such as the Delano Grape Strike started by Larry Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz, and other Manongs. Most foods that we all eat are picked by farm workers who often suffer and are treated unfairly, so we must recognize just how important it is to support these workers whenever possible.

Before being colonized and named “the Philippines,” the archipelago was diverse in distinct cultures and languages. Prior to 300 years of Spanish colonization, Japanese occupation, and (ongoing) U.S. imperialism, the islands had already been trading with merchants from all over Asia, and over thousands of years, the Philippines was forever changed by foreign influence. Modern Filipinx identity, traditions, and diet have thus developed to be both fiercely resilient as well as open to adaptation. Filipinx culture places a high value on caring for our community and for the land that sustains us. By bringing a vegan spotlight to Filipinx cuisine, we hope to carry our traditions of growth, compassion, and respect for the environment into the 21st century.

Vegan foods do not contain animal ingredients, including “meat,” sea life, eggs, dairy, and honey, all of which are products of suffering and exploitation. Many Filipinx dishes are naturally vegan, like lugaw, taho, and turon, while others are easily made vegan, like lumpia, afritada, and pinakbet. For those dishes that may contain animal ingredients, we have included delicious vegan recipes so that you don’t have to miss out on any of your favorites.

Every time some non-vegan talks about everyone just buying “sustainable, ethical, locally-sourced, humane, free-range, grass-fed, whatever” animal products I think of this video.

Where are we going to get all the land and resources for these hypothetical “nice” farms while feeding people the same (or greater) amount of animal products? We gonna start bulldozing our national parks now to treat the cows a little nicer? We gonna give all our money to Elon so he can build a space colony on Mars and cover it in chickens? Might need to put some grain and soy farms on Jupiter’s moons to feed them all too.

We can’t have both sustainable and ““ethical”“ farms. In the end, the animals are still bred into existence only to be exploited and slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifespan.

[Image: A screenshot of a chat thread.

John: “Did you see the video of Fairlife staff beating baby cows?”

Carnie: “No I did not. My friend a local farmer supplies milk. And dont care to. If ita true thats sad. Try living ur life buddy. Im a meat eater and always will be. I dont drink milk nor do i buy from big pharma. I eat wild game these days

Be very careful john 👍”

John: “I never said anything baout you eating meat, I just asked if you had a seen the video of the company you’re promoting beating baby calfs.”]

[Image: a screenshot of a reddit post with the title: “After a year of dedication, perseverance, and the sound advice of my financial advisor, Pat, I was finally able to afford this can of beans. Veganism may only be for the ultra wealthy but don’t let anything hold you back from your goals. #dreamsdocometrue #thankspat #unsecuredpersonalloans“

[Image: the blood orange meme. “It’s like, that kind of leather” “Leather, she’s so pretentious.” “shut up it’s fucking skin” “Leather”]

Neither is:

Quinoa

Kale

Soy

Nuts

Agave

Wheat

Chocolate

Strawberries

Gluten-free food

Organic food

Diet food

Ultra-healthy superfoods

Food flown from the other side of the world

Pleather (still less environmentally damaging than animal skins anyway)

The only requirement for being vegan is avoiding animal exploitation and products as far as is possible and practicable to you.

That’s it. That’s the definition.

my venmo is @str-ngeloop.

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Israel has once again cut off all aid to Gaza and closed all crossings into the strip, intensifying its genocidal blockade as the population faces widespread disease and malnutrition.

The move, announced by the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat), comes after Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in retaliation for its strikes against Lebanon.

Israel has repeatedly violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas and Hezbollah, killing hundreds in both Gaza and Lebanon in recent months as it seizes control of more land.

The apartheid state last cut off all entry to Gaza in late February following the outbreak of the US and Israel’s illegal war on Iran.

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Cogat said in a post on X on Monday that crossings into Gaza would be closed “until further notice”. It falsely claimed the move “will not affect the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.

people are being Very Normal about a black person* taking ownership of her identity and participating as a figurehead of the community, clearly. which is honestly unsurprising, but still really weird because there's several mainstream queer flags that were created by 1 white person on tumblr with no community feedback whatsoever, and most people love those. one would think that people would be happy about her being so open to feedback and wanting it to be a community conversation.

It is true that money and power enables abuse on a grand scale, but the converse is not true— having no money and no power does not make abuse less likely. I think many of us know this from experience. There is no special moral quality to being poor or being oppressed. Oppressed people abuse each other all the fucking time, in families and relationships and friendships. People of color abuse each other. Women abuse each other. Gay people and trans people abuse each other.

Cesar Chavez raped the women and girls of the labor rights movement throughout his career, using worker solidarity as a bludgeoning tool to ensure their silence.

If you say “people in my group don’t do this, it’s the powerful men that do it” then you harm yourself in several ways.

1. You signal to your social circle that you do not hold them to any standard of behavior. You have preemptively pledged loyalty, which means that if they behave objectionably, any objection on your part will mean a betrayal of your community.

2. You mark yourself as socially permissive. People in your social group know that you are, at baseline, unwilling to accept or act on allegations against them. To be frank, this makes you very easy to take advantage of, whether in service of abusing someone else or abusing you directly.

And you harm other people by telling a lie. What about all of the people who have been abused by a person within this oppressed group? They have it reiterated that their abuse cannot be spoken about, for the sake of solidarity.