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Late post /:: #january8th As we bear witness to white supremacist insurrection and the unraveling of the U.S. empire, we remember the Rebellion of 1811. #OnThisDay in history, after years of planning, Charles Deslondes led more than 500 enslaved humans in a coordinated attack to take over New Orleans and make Louisiana a free state. WWW.BOYCOTTX.ORG #thesearethetimes #theboycotttimes #theboycottmovement #boycottx #louisiana #charlesdeslondes #neworleans #rebellion #revolt #rebel #revolution #boycott #thefuckery https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ1CT5Eh32e/?igshid=1an6wznixd06

"Oxford University is embroiled in an ethics row after scientists were accused of questionable conduct over a controversial trial of a new vaccine on African babies. Professor Peter Beverley, a former senior academic at the university, complained that scientists planned to test a new tuberculosis vaccine on more than a thousand infants without sharing data suggesting that monkeys given the immunisation had appeared to “die rapidly. 🌐 “Certainly here in this experiment there was no evidence whatsoever that this is an effective booster vaccine,” Prof Beverley said. He claimed the information was not given to regulators when an application to do the trial was initially submitted. 🌐 In the monkey study, five out of six of the animals infected with TB who were given the experimental vaccine had become “very unwell” and had to be put down. An information sheet given to families in South Africa participating in the trial said the vaccine had been tested on animals and humans and was “safe and effective” in animals. 🌐 Almost 1,500 babies in South Africa received the new jab and parents were paid for taking part. The South African regulator which approved the trial admitted to this newspaper that the information sheet given to parents “could be construed as misleading”, raising questions about whether families were sufficiently informed. 🌐 An inquiry was launched and concluded that although there had been no wrongdoing, it “would have been good practice for the potentially adverse reaction observed in the monkey experiment to be reported to the authorities in a more timely fashion.” Professor Helen McShane, one of the lead scientists who developed the new vaccine, has said that the purpose of the monkey study was to “test the aerosol delivery” to the animals, not to “yield safety information." 🌐 Source: telegraph.co.uk 🌐 #theboycottmovement #vaccine #vaccines #tuberculosis #disease #health #baby #babies #animaltesting #monkey #monkeys #testing #experiment #experimental #oxford

A critically important step in being a responsible consumer is knowing where your money goes. Ultimately, the products you purchase support the company who manufactured and/or sold them, but this does not always end at the company itself, as many companies are subsidiaries owned by a much larger corporation. While you may support the product itself, be sure you know where that money will end up and who it will ultimately support in the end. For example, you may support Honest Tea because it is organic, but that will end up in the pockets of The Coca Cola Company, who manufactures and sells products loaded with harmful chemicals. So, the support of Honest Tea means the support of many other companies you may not necessarily support. We urge everyone to ALWAYS research the parent companies before investing in a product. #theboycottmovement #boycott #cocacola #boycottcoke #boycottcocacola #boycottcokezero #boycottdietcoke #boycottpowerade #boycotthonesttea #boycottvitaminwater #boycottodwalla #boycottfanta #boycottsprite #boycottmelloyello #boycottsmartwater #boycottfresca #boycottsimplyorange #boycottdasani

What You’ll Need for Homemade Shampoo 🌐 Ingredients * ¼ cup coconut milk (homemade or canned) * 1/4 cup Liquid Castille Soap like Dr. Bronners * 20 drops of Essential Oils of choice(I’ve used peppermint, lavender, rosemary and orange or combinations of those) * For dry hair: add ½ tsp olive or almond oil (optional) 🌐 Combine all ingredients in an old shampoo bottle or jar of some kind (pump soap dispensers and even foaming dispensers work well for this. If you use a foaming dispenser, add 1/4 cup of distilled water) Shake well to mix. Keep in shower for up to a month. Shake before each use. Use about a teaspoon every time you shampoo. If you use a foaming dispenser, it also makes a great shaving cream- just dilute with 1/4 cup distilled water 🌐 Note: Some people find that a 50:50 mixture of apple cider vinegar and water used as a rinse helps get hair cleaner and increases shine. 🌐 Source: wellnessmama.com 🌐 #theboycottmovement #diy #diyshampoo #shampoo #allnatural #organic

"The “USDA Organic” label on your #produce aisle might not be as advertised. The inspector general released an audit yesterday that lights into agency officials tasked with overseeing organic standards. It investigated how good a job they’re doing with ostensibly “organic” #imports, and found that it’s way too lax. The report checked to see if imports sold domestically as organic were in fact compliant with the USDA’s clear-cut standard. 🌐 Unfortunately, it turns out, the agency’s #Agricultural #Marketing Service (the office that monitors compliance) can’t “provide reasonable assurance” that those items from abroad are actually “from #certified organic #foreign #farms and #business,” the report notes. The #inspector general’s office decided it should look into this mess after alarming reports surfacedback in May that some 21 million pounds of conventional soybeans, plus a few million more of #corn, had somehow entered American grocery stores carrying a #bogus certified-organic label. Results from this audit suggest that the USDA should find a way to wake its #food-monitoring department up. 🌐 The report says the AMS can’t, simply put, prove that foreign products are from suppliers that follow the USDA’s organic standards. In fact, monitoring is such a joke that auditors learned, in a bonus surprise, that there’s not even an effective procedure in place to prevent shipments of legit organic food from sometimes getting sprayed with extremely nonorganic #insecticides like aluminum phosphide upon arrival, alongside the conventional produce. The report acknowledges that these failures increase “the risk that non-organic products may be imported as organic into the United States,” before adding that it can also “create an unfair #economic #environment for U.S. organic producers." 🌐 Several members of #Congress wasted no time in blasting the agency. The USDA failed to say in its report how widespread it thinks this problem is." 🌐 Source: grubstreet.com 🌐 #theboycottmovement #tbmnews #usda #organic @usdagov

Don't eat this crap!!! @Regrann from @the_boycott_movement ・・・ Know what's in your food. It turns out that there are 17 ingredients in McDonald's french fries 🍟 -Potatoes 🍟 -Canola oil: most canola oil is now genetically-modified 🍟 Tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ): a petroleum-based, butane-like ingredient used as a preservative. It has been linked to asthma, skin conditions, hormone disruption, and in long-term animal studies to cancer and damage to DNA. 🍟 -Hydrogenated soybean oil: most soybean oil is now extracted from genetically-modified soybeans. Plus the hydrogenation process makes the oil more saturated than it would be in its natural form, and unhealthy 🍟 -Safflower oil: believed to be a healthier cooking oil, most safflower is unfortunately heated to high temperatures long before it is ever used for cooking, causing it to be chemically-altered from the heat, and a source of inflammation in the body when that is the case 🍟 -”Natural flavor”—McDonald’s natural flavor is apparently obtained from a vegetable source, but the “natural” moniker means nothing since it can even potentially contain the nerve- and brain-toxin monosodium glutamate (MSG) 🍟 -Dextrose: a type of sugar 🍟 -Sodium acid pyrophosphate—This ingredient is used to maintain the color of the fries. On the chemical industry’s own safety data sheets it is listed as hazardous for ingestion, which is exactly what you’ll be doing when eating these French fries 🍟 -Citric acid: used as a preservative 🍟 -Dimethylpolysiloxane: used as an anti-foaming agent, this industrial chemical is typically used in caulking and sealants and comes with a list of safety concerns 🍟 -Vegetable oil for frying, which is a blend of 7 ingredients, including: canola oil, corn oil (gmo), soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), citric acid, and dimethylpolysiloxane 🍟 Source: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/shocking-ingredients-in-mcdonalds-french-fries.html 🌐 #theboycottmovement #boycott #mcdonalds #boycottmcdonalds #frenchfries #gmo #toxic #chemicals #Regrann

#Repost @the_boycott_movement ・・・ "It’s a big week for Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla. The Palo Alta, Cali-based firm is expected to unveil its latest car model at an event on March 31. After years of putting out expensive, high-end luxury electric cars, Tesla is finally arriving at its long-stated goal of selling a more affordable version, dubbed the Model 3. 🌐 Tesla’s first three cars, the Roadster, Model S and Model X, were or are priced way above the average consumer’s reach. But the Model 3 is set to start at a not-unreasonable $35,000, in the same zone as electrics from GM, BMW, and Nissan. That’s before federal and state tax incentives that further drive down the cost of electric cars. Depending on the state, it’s possible to bring the base price as low as $28,000. 🌐 It will cost $1,000 to get a spot in line when reservations for the Model 3 open on March 31. Doing so at a Tesla showroom will improve your spot in the queue. 🌐 Tesla is expecting to start delivering the first Model 3 cars to customers late next year. The company has experienced production delays in the past. The Model X SUV, for instance, arrived nearly two years late. 🌐 Tesla says the Model 3 will travel about 200 miles on a single charge. That’s enough for most people’s daily commute. The company’s nationwide charger network promises to make longer roadtrips possible. 🌐 Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long dreamed of a future filled with affordable, mass-market electric vehicles. If successful, the Model 3 could help realize that vision. Other companies, notably GM which plans to sell its Chevy Bolt electric this year, have the same idea. That means a lot of competition." 🌐 Source: time.com/4274916/tesla-model-3-what-we-know 🌐 #theboycottmovement #tbmnews #tesla #electriccar #sustainable #environment #green