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lunaxvx: Apu's having none of your shit today. No apologies. No...
Apu's having none of your shit today.
No apologies. No compromise. No more excuses.
"Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding..."
"Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you."- Dream Hampton (via yasodhara)
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veganpope: Hello tumblr vegan community, I am an Honours student at Griffith, Nathan in Queensland,...
Hello tumblr vegan community,
I am an Honours student at Griffith, Nathan in Queensland, Australia. My Honours dissertation is about people who have experienced being economically disadvantaged and being vegan at the same time. The aim of this thesis is to find out what people do in order to maintain their veganism in this situation. I am doing this study as part of my coursework.
As such, I am looking for people who are over 18 and consider themselves poor/struggling or are under the poverty line and who have been an ethical vegan for at least one year (12 months).
Please do not reblog/comment on this with information about yourself and/or your situation (but do feel free to reblog and share!). I need to keep things anonymous. If you reblog this with information about yourself and/or your situation (or even an expression of interest), I will NOT be contacting you about an interview and will not be including anything you say in my thesis. Any information that you add to this post is your own responsibility.
For those who are interested, please email me (at khuolohan AT yahoo DOT com DOT au) so that I can give you some more information and ask you some screening questions.
Thank you for your time,
Keira
5, 9, and 20
5. What's your favourite dairy-free milk?
i like chocolate soy milky, or sweetened almond breeze
9. Favourite farm animal and why?
done already
20. Was your transition to becoming Vegan/Vegetarian gradual or done in one go?
I was vegetarian for years, so i guess gradual?
1,4,6,7,9,13,18,19,26,29
1. How long have you been Vegan/Vegetarian?
I was vegetarian for 5 years and I've been vegan for two.
4. Be honest, did you enjoy the taste of meat and/or dairy before giving it up?
Yep, I had a cheese addiction when I was 17, stopped eating it at 18. Meat, I always loved chicken breast.. but you can get vegan schnitzels, popcorn chickn w/e so it's not an issue.
6. If you were to try and persuade someone to go Vegan/Vegetarian by showing them just 3 YouTube videos, what would you show them and why?
Gary Yourofsky's best speech you will ever hear
Earthlings
and 101 reasons to go vegan
I feel like they have lots of information and are things that everyone needs to see.
7. What's your favourite Vegan/Vegetarian meal and what's the recipe?
Haha I can't choose that! I guess pizza, but you don't really need a recipe for pizza :P
9. Favourite farm animal and why?
Cow, and because they are gentle and beautiful.
13. Top 5 favourite vegetables?
1) mushroom (wait, are mushrooms even vegetables?)
2) broccoli
3) spinach
4) peas
5) potato
18. Chickpeas or lentils?
Lentils
19. Haricot beans or kidney beans?
never heard of the first one, so kidney
26. Which question frustrates/annoys you the most regarding being Vegan/Vegetarian?
Where do you get your protein?
29. How do you feel about 'humane' farms eg. ones that genuinely allow their animals to roam freely until death?
I made a status about this the other day, so i'm just going to paste it here okay?
"Honestly, how can people believe that "humane slaughter" exists? Even if there were farms that treated the animals nicely, or even perhaps show them love how does that make it okay to cut their life short?
Yeah, they may have treated them nicely, for the few years up until they load them into a truck and send them to the same slaughterhouse as the other animals. The same knife slits their throat, they feel the same fear.. The only difference? It would be the equivalent to having a dog, treating them well, loving them, then killing and eating them. If you can see why that isn't humane, you can draw the line that it is NEVER humane to kill an animal, i don't care why they are bred or raised.
If i get a bunch of dogs and breed them for food, does it make it okay for me to then cut their throats? fuck no.
The truth is, even "free range" is a lie, they are kept in barns and still not allowed sunlight.
I don't care if you give me a massage before you slit my throat, i still wanted to live and it's still fucking wrong."
Questions for Vegans/Vegetarians. PLEASE ASK?!
1. How long have you been Vegan/Vegetarian?2. What turned you Vegan/Vegetarian?
3. What's your favourite meat substitute?
4. Be honest, did you enjoy the taste of meat and/or dairy before giving it up?
5. What's your favourite dairy-free milk?
6. If you were to try and persuade someone to go Vegan/Vegetarian by showing them just 3 YouTube videos, what would you show them and why?
7. What's your favourite Vegan/Vegetarian meal and what's the recipe?
8. Do you take any vitamin supplements and if so what?
9. Favourite farm animal and why?
10. Have you ever been to a farm sanctuary?
11. Do you sponsor any animals and if so what species and what organisation are they with?
15. Favourite Vegan/Vegetarian celebrity and why?
16. Are your family also Vegan/Vegetarian? Regardless of the answer, how does this impact you?
17. Put these in order of most important reasons to go Vegan/Vegetarian to least- For the sake of the animals, for the sake of the environment, for the sake of finance and for the sake of your health. Why did you choose this order?
20. Was your transition to becoming Vegan/Vegetarian gradual or done in one go?
21. Favourite animal activist and why?
25. What's the most common question/comment you receive regarding being Vegan/Vegetarian?
26. Which question frustrates/annoys you the most regarding being Vegan/Vegetarian?
27. What are your thoughts on the quote- The punishment should fit the crime with regards to animal cruelty?
28. Favourite cruelty free toiletries?
29. How do you feel about 'humane' farms eg. ones that genuinely allow their animals to roam freely until death?
30. If you had to persuade someone to become Vegan/Vegetarian in one short paragraph, what would you say?
fuckinadi: sadie—talks: infinitylooper: Something to think...
Something to think about:
Always reblog.
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I have so many thoughts that I shouldn’t ever say out loud to anyone, but I also have a...
I have so many thoughts that I shouldn’t ever say out loud to anyone, but I also have a partner who I can say them to and he gets it.
How amazing is that? that’s pretty amazing.
I hardly ever make appreciation posts, but damn it i am really lucky to have found someone like him.
angryinthebones: The Myth Of Complimenting Proteins The Myth Of Complimentary Protein By Jeff...
The Myth Of Complimenting Proteins
The Myth Of Complimentary Protein
By Jeff Novick, M.S., R.D.
(The following was written in 2003 and appeared in Health Science (the membership magazine of the National Health Association) and in Healthy Times (the newsletter of Dr Fuhrman).
Recently, I was teaching a nutrition class and describing the adequacy of plant-based diets to meet human nutritional needs. A woman raised her hand and stated, "I've read that because plant foods don't contain all the essential amino acids that humans need, to be healthy we must either eat animal protein or combine certain plant foods with others in order to ensure that we get complete proteins."
I was a little surprised to hear this, since this is one of the oldest myths related to vegetarianism and was disproved long ago. When I pointed this out, the woman identified herself as a medical resident and stated that her current textbook in human physiology states this and that in her classes, her professors have emphasized this point.
I was shocked. If myths like this not only abound in the general population, but also in the medical community, how can anyone ever learn how to eat healthfully? It is important to correct this misinformation because many people are afraid to follow healthful, plant-based, and/or total vegetarian (vegan) diets because they worry about "incomplete proteins" from plant sources.
How did this "incomplete protein" myth become so widespread?
No Small Misconception
The "incomplete protein" myth was inadvertently promoted and popularized in the 1971 book, Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe. In it, the author stated that plant foods are deficient in some of the essential amino acids so in order to be a healthy vegetarian, you needed to eat a combination of certain plant foods at the same time in order to get all of the essential amino acids in the right amounts. It was called the theory of "protein complementing."
Frances Moore Lappe certainly meant no harm, and her mistake was somewhat understandable. She was not a nutritionist, physiologist, or medical doctor. She was a sociologist trying to end world hunger. She realized that there was a lot of waste in converting vegetable protein into animal protein, and she calculated that if people just ate the plant protein, many more people could be fed. In a later edition of her book (1991), she retracted her statement and basically said that in trying to end one myth—the unsolvable inevitability of world hunger, she created a second one—the myth of the need for "protein complementing."
In these later editions, she corrects her earlier mistake and clearly states that all plant foods typically consumed as sources of protein contain all the essential amino acids, and that humans are virtually certain of getting enough protein from plant sources if they consume sufficient calories.
Amino Acid Requirements
Where did the concept of "essential amino acids" come from? In 1952, William Rose and his colleagues completed research that determined the human requirements for the eight essential amino acids. They set the "minimum amino acid requirement" by making it equal to the greatest amount required by any single person in their study. To set the "recommended amino acid requirement," they simply doubled the minimum requirements. This "recommended amino acid requirement" was considered a "definitely safe intake."
Today, if you calculate the amount of each essential amino acid provided by unprocessed plant foods and compare these values with those determined by Rose, you will find that any single one, or combination, of these whole natural plant foods provides all of the essential amino acids. Furthermore, these whole natural plant foods provide not just the "minimum requirements" but provide amounts far greater than the "recommended requirements."
Modern researchers know that it is virtually impossible to design a calorie-sufficient diet based on unprocessed whole natural plant foods that is deficient in any of the amino acids. (The only possible exception could be a diet based solely on fruit.)
Pride and Prejudice
Unfortunately, the "incomplete protein" myth seems unwilling to die. In an October 2001 article in the medical journal Circulation on the hazards of high-protein diets, the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association wrote, "Although plant proteins form a large part of the human diet, most are deficient in one or more essential amino acids and are therefore regarded as incomplete proteins."1 Oops!
Medical doctor and writer John McDougall wrote to the editor pointing out the mistake. But in a stunning example of avoiding science for convenience, instead of acknowledging their mistake, Barbara Howard, Ph.D., head of the Nutrition Committee, replied on June 25, 2002 to Dr. McDougall's letter and stated (without a single scientific reference) that the committee was right and "most (plant foods) are deficient in one or more essential amino acids." Clearly, the committee did not want to be confused by the facts.
Maybe you are not surprised by this misconception in the medical community. But what about the vegetarian community?
Behind the Times
Believe it or not, an article in the September 2002 issue of Vegetarian Times made the same mistake. In a story titled "Amazing Aminos," author Susan Belsinger incorrectly stated, "Incomplete proteins, which contain some but not all of the EAAs [essential amino acids], can be found in beans, legumes, grains, nuts and green leafy vegetables…. But because these foods do not contain all of the EAAs, vegetarians have to be smart about what they eat, consuming a combination of foods from the different food groups. This is called food combining."
A Dangerous Myth
To wrongly suggest people need to eat animal protein for nutrients will encourage them to add foods that are known to contribute to the incidence of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and many forms of cancer, to name just a few common problems.
In Health
JeffReferences:
1. Circulation 2001;104: 1869-74.
disquietingtruths: "People are locked into a box. They see the...
"People are locked into a box. They see the box around them; they see the leaks, and the holes, and the cracks. And they go up to the cracks, and they try to fix them - they try to patch the holes. But they don't stop to think that maybe there's something wrong with the box itself; maybe the integrity of the box that they exist in is inherently invalid; it's inherently void"
— Peter Joseph
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find-peace-within: Sign the petition...
Sign the petition here:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/monsanto_vs_mother_earth_loc/?cmUYVbb
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kalories: one of the greatest things ive seen in a long time
one of the greatest things ive seen in a long time
youarefuckingmajestic: QUICK REMINDER THAT SOME PEOPLE ARENT PHYSICALLY/MENTALLY ABLE TO DO THE...
QUICK REMINDER THAT SOME PEOPLE ARENT PHYSICALLY/MENTALLY ABLE TO DO THE FOLLOWING:
- GET OUT OF BED EVERY DAY
- CHANGE INTO 'REAL CLOTHES' EVERY MORNING
- ATTEND SCHOOL/WORK
- GO OUTSIDETHEY ARE STILL MAJESTIC. IF THIS APPLIES TO YOU THEN YOU ARE STILL FUCKING MAJESTIC. YOU ARE NOT DEFINED BY WHAT YOU ARE OR ARE NOT ABLE TO DO.
ANYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE YOU FEEL BAD BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO A CERTAIN THING CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES.
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