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everyone living in EU - please support the citizens initiative for safe and accessible abortion!!

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Caponata

This is a vegan-friendly/plant-based adaptation of the recipe "Caponata" from the 1993 cookbook Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook.

Ingredients:

1 medium onion, chopped

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 Tbsp olive oil

2 medium eggplants, peeled and chopped

1 large tomato, chopped

2 Tbsp chopped fresh basil (or 2 tsp dried basil)

2 Tbsp red wine vinegar

1/8 tsp salt

1/4 tsp ground black pepper

Instructions:

Cook onion and garlic in the olive oil in a large skillet/pot over medium heat for about 3 minutes, until the onion is tender. Stir in the eggplant and tomato. Cook uncovered for about 10 minutes, until the eggplant is tender. Stir in the basil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Serve with crackers or toasted bread.

Crocker, Betty. "Caponata." Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook. New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. 37. Print.

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Artichokes with Basil Sauce

This is a vegan-friendly/plant-based adaptation of the recipe "Chilled Artichokes with Basil Sauce" from the 1993 cookbook Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook.

Ingredients:

1/2 of a 12.3 oz block of firm silken tofu*

juice of half a small lemon

1/2 cup fresh basil

3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

4 oz dairy-free cream cheese*

1 medium red bell pepper, chopped

2 large globe artichokes, steamed and chilled

Instructions:

Place all ingredients except red bell pepper and artichokes in a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Remove blades (or put sauce in a bowl if your blades aren't detachable) and stir in the red bell pepper. Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

Place a steamer basket insert in a large pot and fill it with water up to a little under the basket. Cut off the bottom quarter of the artichoke stems and peel the remainder. Cut off the tops of the artichokes, about a 1/4 to 1/3 of the way down, and trim off any spikey bits on the remaining leaves. Steam the artichokes until tender and the leaves start pulling away from the body of the chokes, about 30-40 minutes. Allow to cool before peeling off leaves. Discard the chokes (the fuzzy bit inside) and place the leaves, stems, and artichoke hearts in the fridge to chill. Serve chilled artichokes with the basil sauce.

Notes:

Silken Tofu - I used the shelf-stable Morinaga brand silken tofu, which comes in 12.3 oz blocks. It's okay if the amount of tofu you use isn't the same as mine. I didn't weigh or measure it; I just eyeballed the block and cut about half off. A little more or less won't hurt anything.

Cream Cheese - You can use whatever recipe or store-bought vegan cream cheese you want, but I've only used Violife as a cream cheese substitute, so use something else at your discretion. Like with the silken tofu, I didn't measure or weigh the cream cheese block to exactly 4 oz; I just eyeballed an 8 oz block and cut about half off. A little more or less won't hurt anything.

Crocker, Betty. "Chilled Artichokes with Basil Sauce." Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook. New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. 37. Print.

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Savory Mushroom Strata

This is a vegan-friendly/plant-based adaptation of the recipe "Savory Mushroom Strata" from the 1993 cookbook Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook.

Ingredients:

1 cup chopped mushrooms

1 cup dairy-free cottage cheese *

1/4 cup chopped green onions

1 tsp chopped fresh rosemary (or 1/2 tsp dried rosemary)

1 garlic clove, finely chopped

12 slices hard bread (such as sourdough or ciabatta)

1 batch of the "egg" mixture in this recipe from From My Bowl *

1/2 cup shredded mild dairy-free cheese *

Instructions:

Lightly grease 9x9 inch baking dish.

In a bowl, mix the mushrooms, cottage cheese, green onions, rosemary, and garlic.

Place 4 slices of bread in the baking dish. Spread half of the mushroom mixture on the bread. Pour 1/3 of the "egg" mixture on top. Layer 4 more slices topped with the other half of the mushroom mixture in the dish. Pour another 1/3 of the "egg" mixture on top. Place the last 4 slices of bread on the previous layer, add the rest of the "egg" mixture, and top with the shredded cheese. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake uncovered 1 hour, until "egg" has thickened. Let set at least 10 minutes before serving.

Notes:

Cottage Cheese - I used this recipe from It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken, but you can use whatever recipe you like or purchase pre-made vegan-friendly cottage cheese if it's available in your area.

"Egg" mixture - The original recipe calls for "1 1/2 cups low-fat milk" and "1 cup cholesterol-free egg product or 6 egg whites." If you don't want to use the recipe I linked in the ingredients list, you could try using 1 1/2 cups plant-based milk and 1 cup store-bought plant-based liquid "egg." Just whisk the two ingredients together and use the mixture the same way as the recipe above says.

Shredded Cheese - I used Violife Colby Jack shreds, but feel free to use whatever mild, vegan-friendly cheese substitute you prefer.

Crocker, Betty. "Savory Mushroom Strata." Betty Crocker's New Choices Cookbook. Ed. Karen Couné. New York: Prentice Hall, 1993. 315. Print.

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My veganism is about non-humans, but it’s not the only facet of my activism and morality and if you honestly believe that caring about other species means you can’t also care about humanity, your scope of empathy must be very small, and I’m so sorry.

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Non vegan leftists will stand with activists against corporations on just about every issue but when animal rights activists come into the picture they’re defending animal agriculture against other activists.

Could you explain to me how this one industry is ethical even though we know the rest of them is doing some pretty shady stuff. How did the killing animals and using their bodies for money industry get to be so humane and exploitation free, enlighten me.

It’s all workers rights until you need someone to spend hours a day killing animals. Very workers rights until yet another farmer gets trampled by a cow and we have to turn a blind eye to it. Because cheese.

I’m just saying since most people can be healthy on a vegan diet, I don’t think it’s ethical to support factory farming (which 90% of farm animals are on factory farms) and animal and human exploitation. If we can avoid harming animals, and putting humans in dangerous situations, we should.

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Vegans are fundamentally against exploitation and cruelty towards animals, which includes killing and eating them.

So when carnists ask us to respect their choice to eat meat, they’re asking us to respect animal cruelty.

Which is, y'know, what we’re fundamentally against. Really, this isn’t that difficult.

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Like "veganism is good for the environment" and "we should all be vegans" are generalisations. Sure, there are going to be cases wherein someone should not be vegan or in which all their food is magically super sustainable because they grow it all on their own farm and just eat 1 egg a day from their tiny little chicken coop because they need protein and absolutely can't get beans etc.

And frankly I'm kinda feeling right now like...deal with the generalisation? When I see "running is good for you" stuff or "we should all be exercising more" I don't go on a long rant about how omg I can't run and not everyone should be exercising so this article is bad actually. I accept it's not about me and move on.

When someone says "murder is bad" I assume they don't think it's bad if in self-defence. I don't need them to clarify when they think murder isn't awful, because yeah, most of the time murder is not good lol.

Pretty much every social justice movement makes generalisations. It's primarily because going "X is good unless..." waters down what you're saying and distracts from the point. For example look at all the people who bring up why some people can't be vegan despite not being in those groups themselves. It's a distraction so they don't need to think about their own motives.

(I've literally had people living on over 5k a month telling me about how veganism is bad because not everyone can afford fake meat, for example. Like mate that's extremely unrelated to why you are not going vegan.)

I just get tired of being expected to clarify every single exception to veganism. I don't care to argue over the "nuance" of "veganism is good for the environment" just as I don't care to argue the "nuance" of "running is a good form of exercise". Would eating vegan for you personally genuinely be worse for the environment? Okay, cool. Don't care, too busy trying to explain to everyone else why their beef burger is shit for our planet.

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I’ve been practicing veganism since I was a teenager & I’m now in my 30s so I’ve seen a lot of discourses on veganism come and go and recirculate and that’s worthy of analysis probably,

but one thing that has been a constant the whole time is this bizarre exchange where people will ask me if I’m vegan “for ethical or health reasons” where there is a subtextual and preloaded expectation that answering “ethical” is incorrect and worse.

but, like it’s easy to spot that mainstream rhetorics of “health” when the subject is food (even though veganism is not a diet, that’s what people hear when I say “vegan” so this is the immediate lens through which they filter everything I say) are just dogwhistling fatphobia. Like we all can acknowledge this, yes?

so the underlying question is really:

“do you abstain from this food out of political boycott within a particular ethical framework, or are you just on a diet to Get Skinny?” and if you refuse the implicit fatphobia/healthism then people immediately assume you’re a bad person.

like they can sympathize with diet culture and fatphobic discourses, but you’re completely alien if you have more complex political goals.

it’s just wild to me how often this interaction plays out, and how uncomfortable people are when I refuse to play the role of the “health concerned plant based dieter who eats exclusively ‘unprocessed’ foods and raw produce”

like nah, I want to abolish capitalism actually! I want systems of large scale food production to be freed from imperialism and colonialism. I think it’s fucked up that we have socially constructed the concept of “animality” to have the properties of “can be bought, owned, and sold” and “outside of moral concern”— especially when the entire existence of this construct has been a history littered with various human groups being sorted into this category! Animality is a central logic of enslavement, colonization, and genocide. It’s not a coincidence that populations being subject to these violent forces are always compared to an animal— that’s the logic of the construct. It exists to justify routine normalized death and cruelty. eugenics as a practice can’t be separated from animal agriculture and the mechanized controlling of bodies to be useful to capitalism. foundational eugenic texts are full of direct references to these comparisons with agriculture. eugenic ideas continue to rest in our ideas about animals, ready to be applied to human populations whenever it benefits capital.

but you don’t want to hear that. you want reassurance that I hate fat people instead. that’s the preferable answer to you. right. sure.

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I just think that 'animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected' and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there's nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products' are concepts that very much can and should coexist

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The US Military in Hawaii

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i feel like i'm watching a car crash in slow motion

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I want more people to know that while the Palestine Olympic team consists of only 8 athletes, at least 69 Palestinian Olympic athletes have been killed since October 2023. This includes athletes who were going to compete in these games and retired athletes such as Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, who died of kidney failure in a refugee camp product of lack of medical treatment.

Remember them during these games.

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Some people will really pretend their hatred of vegans is for social justice reasons rather than admit they like cheese. They will defend a system built on animal abuse, human exploitation and environmental destruction rather than admit it’s scary to change their diet and that they really like KFC.

Like bro please-

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Someone just told me being vegan was unethical because of all the deforestation to grow soy crops. Like do people really believe the amazon was destroyed so vegans could eat tofu lmao