Teppichbrand

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey, just a quick note from a veteran vegan:
Words like genocide or Holocaust are not helping. I understand where this is coming from. I too was furious and in shock after taking an honest look at the horrors of global animal abuse. It's overwhelming. I still want to scream at every carnist meatflake to change their mind. But: The cognitive dissonance is strong and people love to get offended, so they can focus on you being an idiot instead of their despicable actions. You make it very easy for them if you use words like this.
No offense, there even might be a few people who need to be confronted like this. But most probably don't. So yeah, just a thought. All the best.

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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Legumes are the best! Let's share some easy meals. I eat pasta with canned baby broad beans once a week. Here's the recipe:

BABY BROAD BEANS SAUCE
Pasta sauce or spread
Servings: 4

Ingredients:

  • 2 tbsp neutral oil
  • 2 onions
  • 1 smoked tofu, diced
  • 1 jar of broad beans
  • 2 tablespoons of tahini
  • 1 dash of soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon vegetable stock powder
  • Optional: 1 teaspoon cumin
  • Optional: More vegetables, like strips of white cabbage, diced carrots or green bush beans

Instructions:

  1. Add oil, fry the onion well, add the smoked tofu. Add broad beans including the water and bring to boil.
  2. Maybe add more vegetables.
  3. Stir in the tahini, soy sauce and vegetable stock powder and you're done.
  4. You can blend everything into a paste or simply mash a few beans with a fork or masher to make the sauce even creamier. Then serve as a pasta sauce or even as a sandwich spread.

Shared with Broccoli

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think it's not that complicated. There is this quote from Jeremy Bentham:

The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Which they obviously can, right? Watch the videos.
Now let's not focus on them but on us, that's easier: We are at a point in history where we (you and me) don't need to kill animals anymore to survive. It is even harming us, clocking our arteries, destroying ecosystems. We live in a society where you can go buy plant-based alternatives that are cheaper and healthier, processed stuff like schnitzel and sausages, but also notorious superfoods like lentils and tofu. Happy Eat your Beans-day, by the way.
So we could solve like a quarter of the climate catastrophe, save millions on health care (I'm European) and human lifes by ditching saturated fat, slow down or even prevent further antibiotic resistance and free billions of sentient beings from short miserable lifes. But most of us choose not to, because they're accustomed to a taste.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

5 is great. Never stop donaldducking.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Opinion:
Chewing on lab grown tissue is not something I'm looking forward to. I don't need it in my life, I'll stay plant based. If it replaces a dead animal I'm fine with it. But I doubt it will. I feel like lab-grown meat is like hydrogen for Big Oil:
A thing that they're working on, it will be great in the future. But until then, we can continue burning oil/eating meat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Off-topic:
I'm always tempted to write it out. The word is in everybody's mind while we read the text. It gets so powerful if people decide to talk around it. But if the context is not hurtful, it's just a word. Nothing happens. It becomes an insult if the mind of the one who says it or the one who reads it decides to make it one.
Plus the assholes who use it as a slur will say it anyway. We're not achieving anything by erasing it from our bubble.
Well, that's what I think about it. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

What are you talking about? It says 40% are male and killed as veal within a week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think I made by point and presented enough sources. I'm obviously not going to change your mind at this time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

An example of what people accept as normal:

In 2020, 4.9 million dairy calves were born in New Zealand. Exact numbers are not collected on the outcome of each calf, but NZ dairy industry lobby organisation DairyNZ estimate that of those:

2 million (40%) were bobby calves, who are killed around a week after birth.

1.4 million (28%) were female cows kept by dairy farmers to replace the 20-30% of older cows who will be slaughtered every year when they are no longer deemed productive.

1.3 million (27%) were raised to maturity for beef. Beef animals are generally slaughtered when they reach maturity at around one and half years old.

196,000 (4%) were born dead or die shortly after birth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

It's not a byproduct. 80% of global soy is grown to feed animals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That's the spirit. Going vegan is a powerful personal Fuck You to the global suicide machine. Plus you'll probably live a longer, healthier life. I wish you all the best!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Udder Boys against the Oatification of Milk!"

Damn, I need to copyright that! :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Normal, natural and necessary are the three N's of Carnism. Also:

Vegan Bullshit Bingo #1:
Lions eat meat too

Yes, animals kill in the wild - to survive. We humans are, as opposed to predators or parasites, omnivores. We know how to grow crops, vegetables, etc. and cultivate fields. We have a choice, a conscience and we have ethics. Are you identifying with the intelligence and life situation of that of a lion or a tongue parasite? Do you also commonly ask yourself "What would a tongue parasite do in my place right now"? Are lions that kill newborns of other lions, for example, really good role models?

Vegan Bullshit Bingo #54
Well, humans just are on top of the food chain.

Shouldn't you take responsibility in the role of the stronger and be considerate with your power? Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you have to. Otherwise you could maltreat children, handicapped people and all other physically disabled people for fun. Of course we don't do that because it would be immoral. Why should this moral understanding suddenly no longer apply to other species? Wouldn't we also wish for mercy and compassion if tomorrow a species superior to us colonized the earth?

 

I didn't. What the fuck!

 

This is not even a competition anymore.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I use LineageOS with MicroG on my phone. If I quickly press the Power On/Off-button repeatedly it plays an alarm and dials a call for help. This is probably in all android versions, I don't know.
I know biometric unlocking is dangerous, because it can be forced. But it's incredible convenient 99,99% of the time. Wouldn't it be rather easy to implement an option to switch off biometric unlocking when doing the emergency clicking? Or is there already another option? I'm sure I'm not the first genius to think about it.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

So Google decided to swap out batteries for free on Pixel 4a phones. I have two of them running LineageOS without Google, but I'd really like some fresh batteries. But I don't know if Google will accept my phone. Did anyone already try to get the free replacement? How did you do it and how did it work?

 

I'm not going to write a full review here but I really enjoyed it. It looks incredible, had strong Solarpunk and Half-Earth implications. It's emotional yet honest and mature. Animals look and act great as well. You should watch it.

 

Ich habe gerade recht zufällig auf Wikipedia zu Beyond Meat gelesen und muss mich kurz aufgeregt. Denn da steht:

2019 hat Öko-Test den Beyond-Meat-Burger getestet. Während das Produkt gute Noten erhielt, was Geschmack und Konsistenz angeht, wurde die Verwendung von geschmacksverstärkenden Hefeextrakten kritisiert.

Diese Kritik ist absolut unwissenschaftlich und unseriös! Bleibt hier mal bei mir:
Hefeextrakt ist ein Naturprodukt, das Glutaminsäure und Nukleotide enthält. Beides kommt auch in Fleisch vor und sorgt für einen herzhaften Umami-Geschmack. Bei dem einen wird es als natürliche vegane Würze benutzt, bei dem anderen entsteht es natürlich im Muskelgewebe des Tieres. Auf welcher wissenschaftlichen Grundlage kritisiert die Öko Test die Verwendung?

Das Zeug ist außerdem in Pilzen, Tomatenmark, Hefeflocken, Sojasoße, Misopaste drin, Menschen stellen es seit hunderten Jahren her und benutzen es wie Essig, Zucker, Salz, weil es halt super lecker schmeckt. Aber hier wird es plötzlich zum GeScHmAcKsVeRsTäRkEr, und das ist schlecht, weil ... !?
Wollen die lieber keinen Umami-Geschmack in dem Produkt haben und dann kritisieren, dass es fad schmeckt?

Damit implizieren sie außerdem das Bullshit Bingo #9:
Vegane Produkte sind pure Chemie!

Denn am Ende landet man beim Thema "Geschmacksverstärker" dann bei dem künstlich hergestellten Mononatriumglutamat und dem "Chinarestaurant-Syndrom". Dieser Begriff aus einer Studie aus den 1960ern hat sich trotz fehlender Beweise stark in der Öffentlichkeit verankert. Wissenschaftlich gesehen gibt es aber keine bewiesenen Fälle, die Glutamat als Auslöser identifizieren. Warum argumentiert ein Magazin wie die Öko Test (dem große Teile der deutschen Bevölkerung vertrauen) auf Grundlage einer nicht reproduzierbaren Studie, die über 60 Jahre alt ist? Die verbreiten hier aktiv Desinformation, die es bis auf Wikipedia geschafft hat.
Können wir damit bitte aufhören und diesen Quatsch ab jetzt thematisieren, wenn er uns mal wieder über den Weg läuft?

EDIT: Ich habe der Öko Test soeben eine E-Mail mit Bitte um Stellungnahme und Löschung der Passage geschickt. Mal sehen was da kommt. :)

EDIT 2:

Sehr geehrter Teppichbrand,
vielen herzlichen Dank für Ihren Hinweis, Sie haben recht. Der Artikel hätte schon offline sein sollen, wir beheben das.
Das ist unser neuster Test bezüglich Veganer Burger: 
https://www.oekotest.de/essen-trinken/Vegane-Burger-im-Test-8-von-16-Patties-enthalten-Mineraloelbestandteile_13873_1.html
Mit freundlichen Grüßen

 

Keep posting them, but we should just copy the text and link to the source instead of screenshooting a couple of sentences like my mom, no? This would save some disk space and power consumption as well.

 

Ist keine Anbau-Frage, aber interessiert mich trotzdem. Hat schon mal jemand das ausgedampfte Cannabis aus dem Vaporizer als Tee aufgebrüht? Ist ja schön angeröstet und riecht lecker. Was wird mich da erwarten?

 

Hey fellow Bitwiggers, I'd love to sample from YouTube as easy as possible. I'm on Linux, what are my options?

 

Hallo liebe Ganja-Gärtner und Gärtnerinnen,
eine Freundin hat es irgendwie geschafft, im Zelt zuhause aus gekauften feminisierten Autos Zwitter zu züchten. Nun hat sie einige Samen in den Blüten. Was wird sie erwarten, wenn sie diese Samen einpflanzt? Männliche und weibliche Autos? Oder sind die steril? Ist das grundsätzlich eine gute Idee?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hallo an alle Ganja-Gärtner:innen,
ich bin neu im Anbau und auch Dampf-Geschäft. Meine Ernte ist üppig und nun geht es ans zurechtschneiden. Ich habe gelesen, dass die Zuckerblätter weg sollen, weil sie nicht genug THC haben und die Qualität der Blüte dann schlechter ist. Nun frage ich mich:

  • Ist es für den Eigengenuß im Verdampfer nicht völlig egal, wenn an der Blüte noch die kleinen Blättchen dran sind? Im Zweifelsfall dampfe ich einfach noch ein bisschen nach, wenns nicht genug knallt!
  • Wie sind eure Erfahrungen mit frischen, nassen Blüten im Verdampfer? Das Durchtrocken der Ernte ist ja auch eher für die Tüte wichtig (abgesehen von der Lagerung).
  • Bonusfrage: Trimmen vor oder nach dem Trocknen?
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