#western diets

[feckcops]

Hot air: five climate myths pushed by the US beef industry

“While fossil fuel consumption has done the most to put us on our dangerous path to climate catastrophe, a widely cited 2020 study in the journal Science argued that we can no longer avoid the worst of the climate crisis by cutting fossil fuels alone. Staying below the average global temperature rise of 2C – a threshold that scientists say will lead to systems collapse, mass extinctions, fatal heat waves, drought and famine, water shortages and flooded cities – will require ‘rapid and ambitious’ changes to food systems.

“The single most impactful food-related change we can make, according to their findings, is not increasing yields, ramping up agricultural efficiency or cutting food waste, though those approaches all would help. It’s adopting a plant-rich diet.

“While building out energy infrastructure can take years, changing our diet is something we can work toward today.”

[kazifatagar]

Malaysians Say No Need to Glorify Western Diets as Asian Diets are Efficient too

The trending topic on social media nowadays is mostly about one’s diet. A healthy diet is now considered as a luxury, a stark contrast to what it was 50 years ago as children would reject green vegetables. X users say that we don’t need to glorify western diets.  Malaysians say no need to glorify western diets  https://twitter.com/MudDNo1/status/1897538124504543669 One user on X suggests that…

[keywestlolita]

[havencoast]

[heloixe-m]

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[stellabellapookibear]

I only receive serotonin by making collages on pinterest :)

[vegan-heterotroph]

Been reading “Decolonizing Our Diets by Recovering Our Ancestors’ Garden”- by  Devon A. Mihesuah-a Choctaw citizen- and I’m learning even more about Indigenous Americans as well as the impact western diet/food has on Indigenous American communities. 

“...it is estimated that 75 percent of American Indian adults have lactose intolerance. Yet the Dietary Guidelines advises that everyone eat two or three servings of dairy foods, despite the reality that other foods, such as green, leafy vegetables and beans, also supply calcium.”

There is also a video on YouTube about decolonizing diets:

Not Native myself, but it sucks hearing about how much damage western diets has negatively impacted Native cultures and communities. 

[bananonbinary]

my favorite stupid joke with all my chronically disabled friends and family is roleplaying as a white anti-medicine suburban mom whenever anyone has an obviously-real medical problem. like suggesting yoga or a random fad diet to fix a nasty flu or sore muscle. or broken leg. or autism.

[ovaruling]

weird no one ever talks about how like ~60%+ of the world is lactose intolerant and how deeply a dairy-dominant world disadvantages the health of people of color, particularly in the West

[gothseparatist]

BG3 tactician difficulty is child's play compared to a BG3 vegan run

[scolek]

i was thinking about the wisconsin incident* in the shower today so ive spent the afternoon doing geography quizzes on sporcle

[kingofdorkville]

dude showing up from the 1880s could be very funny

[psalmsofpsychosis]

literally what is it about japanese artists and japanese philosophy that has me turning to them every other month just to find myself so utterly and completely at home!!!!!

[doliibon]

[tutunare]

Also, whoever decided healthy food should taste bad doesn't know how to cook them or has never seen spices/would die by merely being in the same room as a bit of saffron and paprika, unable to handle a single piece of garlic.

A bowl of rice and chicken is boring until it has garlic, onions, pepper and curry in it, lettuce and tomato is sad until there's oregano, olive oil, lime and salt... Beans can be very boring up until you throw some bay leaves, bone broth and turmeric. You don't even need extra butter and salt sometimes, you just need spices.

I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

[wherenightmaresroost]

im a bit tilted over the topic of food and nutrition atm esp since i fucking know the processes behind it and my mom has been spiralling into diet bullshit misinfo