#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.”

[keywestlolita]

[saint-ambrosef]

wild to me that the Mediterranean diet is supposed to be based on research regarding the naturally healthy diet and lifestyle of those living in southern Europe.

but then you look at suggested eating guides and suggested meals and they always have weird crap like "put soy milk in your coffee" or "use only fat-free greek yogurt"

like bruh, have you ever been to the Mediterranean?? they consume dairy in moderation, but when they do, it's the full fat stuff! why model a lifestyle diet off these people's traditional diets because they're naturally healthy, but then ignore that it also includes full fat dairy products?

[coochiewaterfall]

Low key such a coquette queen

[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

[dudeshusband]

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]

[dollhousefor4na]

✭ feeling very patriot this week ✟

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[ardentpoop]

im feeling. really really unwell.

[ashvsevil]

Call me a horse girl, I dare you.

[lapeaudelamemoire]

Gonna scream. All my books are wank. My bookshelves, which I so eagerly filled and went out spending hundreds of dollars on books on, are filled to the brim with stuffy white-authored 'Western' philosophical treatises.

Agh! I merely wish for that DiscWorld novel I thought I had but cannot seem to find! And now I discover that actually my house is full of non-fiction because I bloody fancied myself an intellectual. And a fucking 'refined' and ~cultured~ one that I was hankering to become.

And my dismay at discovering I have an Anaïs Nin book in my library like I'm still a teenager and obsessed with black and white academic artsy lit dark emo, along with a Vita Sackville-West book because sensuality and passion, I suppose, or something? Ack! I wanted to be a whitewashed approved intellectual with European sensibilities so bad.

And I have no little fantasy fiction novels!