New vegan struggle just dropped
I'm not even vegan but am thoroughly looking forward to the meat and dairy industries crashing and burning over the next decade. Love me some farmer's tears.
Edit: "farmer's provide food" - that's the point - they won't be providing food much longer! They're about to go out of business.
Even if they don't - the farmers don't make the food - the people who are exploited by the farmers do - and I love them as much as any worker, and their skills I'm sure will be appreciated.
FWIW, farmer's in my country (owners, as opposed to farmworkers) are by and large fascist scum, petty small business owners, or major companies. They've spent much of the last year crying about policies designed to tackle climate change, spreading transphobia, and/or coming up with creative new misogynistic insults for our "communist" (actually a tragic lib) prime minister. I celebrate their demise. I hope their workers rise up against them. I hope they never make a cent of profit again.
https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahhbickerton/status/1415850447370215424
It's almost like vegetables and grain and shit are grown by farmers
Never heard someone refer to the impoverished, mostly immigrant underclass of landless, at-will, underpaid, often migrant workers on farms as "farmers"
Ehh, its a heavily consolidated field, thats heavily reliant on exploitative labour, and has been the wedge voting bloc in the coalition.
Im not shedding too many tears here. Rich get richer yada yada
and has been the wedge voting bloc in the coalition
What coalition?
ahh, a non australian i see. The conservative Liberals hold coalition with the even conservativer Nationals to form the Liberal National Party which has for the past... 10? years? has held power and still blamed the fuckups on everyone but themselves, if they even acknowledge the fuckup in the first place, if they havent already spun the fuckup as a win.
Oh, right. Not an aussie no.
But my point was that if we are going to build socialism it's probably not a good idea to alienate the people who provide us with food.
"Love me some farmer's tears" is just an objectively bad take that we should not be applauding. The vast majority of farmers on the planet are not corporate scum wading in money.
Idk like every LATAM revolution screws farmers by attempting to redistribute land away from them to the people actually working the land, the exploited. I'm fine with that.
You can use this logic to defend almost any business owner. Farmer = person who owns farm, exploits labour for profit.
Great take actually, fuck farmers - along with every other land and/or business owner. :marx-joker:
But at least in the US, farmers are literally landlords. Even relatively small farmers - I knew a guy who inherited his "small" family farm... he did some work on it but it was mostly exploited laborers. Dude owned like 4 SUVs and took 2-3 vacations a year to Europe or the South Pacific for weeks at a time.
Ag-gag laws are anti-whistleblower laws that apply within the agriculture industry. The term typically refers to state laws in the United States of America that forbid undercover filming or photography of activity on farms without the consent of their owner—particularly targeting whistleblowers of animal rights abuses at these facilities.[1] Although these laws originated in the United States, they have also begun to appear elsewhere, such as in Australia and France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
For Property Rights Australia, this represents a declaration of war
Lmao owned
:michael-laugh: they are complaining about "parasitism" they should be careful they sound like landlords :mao-aggro-shining:
Sap is plant blood, and you have to kill plants to harvest them completely
... Everyone wins, I guess
Animal offal macerated and processed beyond recognition into a patty shape = BURGER
Soy macerated and processed beyond recognition into a patty shape = NOT A BURGER
Such fucking cope from the blood mouths who know their sales are dropping and that in the coming years most people won’t even be able to afford beef
Also the fucking irony of people who raise and murder other living beings for profit calling ANYONE a parasite is just too much
There was a puff piece yesterday about beef industry 'joining the fight' in curbing emissions lmao
Meat products are so fucking expensive since 2020 and the vegan meats are now dirt cheap. Even bro types around here that want to save $ are buying vegan. The meat industry is toast without some neoliberal shitwad declaring the product can only be sold to qualifying low income WIC moms who live in economic opportunity zones
Meat products are so fucking expensive since 2020 and the vegan meats are now dirt cheap. Even bro types around here that want to save $ are buying vegan
Literally the exact opposite where I live.
I thought black bean burgers were better than meat burgers even before I went vegan.
Dominos had a huge scandal back in the 00s because it was using vegan soy cheese instead of the dairy stuff. It made the swap because soy cheese was less expensive. Now vegan cheese is on par if not more expensive... kinda sucks. At least actual tofu and beans are still pretty cheap.
Really? No vegan cheese I've had could really mimic dairy cheese. What kind were they using?
This is just so incredibly stupid. The selling point of vegan meat substitutes is that they're made from plants and consequently the labels scream that fact in the face of consumers: "Look at me! I'm like a schnitzel but I'm made entirely from soy!"
Noone is going to buy that, believing they're buying meat.
by farming groups they mean monsanto and farms with more square meters of conveyor belts than they have fields
