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The main source of protein for intensively farmed animals is soy, which is also a complete protein source for humans. The whole edifice of factory farming is nutritionally pointless - essentially a highly inefficient soy laundering operation.

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something

submitted 29 days ago • 106 comments

Before we hurtle to the next stage of Gaza’s calamity, we owe it to them, and ourselves, whatever our politics, to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away. Goodbye to the children of Gaza. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

86 people survived 468 days of one of the most brutal campaigns of mass extermination in human history to finally hear news of a ceasefire. Then Israel killed them. Unforgivable.

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Just for the record, my position is "Free Palestine" not "Say They'll Stop Bombing Palestine For A Bit But Continue To Regardless Because Nobody Will Face Accountability For The Genocide"

submitted 48 days ago • 19 comments

If your economic system is risking biological reproduction — such that people feel unable to have children — perhaps, just perhaps, it might be time to change that system?

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks left to apply for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the philosophy of inequality!

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

People in Jersey are having to undergo bloodletting to reduce their levels of forever chemicals, and the big US firm that made the chemicals is allowed to block the state from offering a health screening programme in case it leads to a class action lawsuit. What a fucking world.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

"By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented."

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Would anyone like to come and do a fully-funded (fees + stipend) PhD in the philosophy of inequality with me and some lovely, brilliant colleagues? The project is entitled "Rethinking moral status in light of global health inequality" and the ad is here: shorturl.at/53G67 Apply by 31/1/25

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

It would be awkward for someone who bragged about making the US the biggest fossil-fuel producer to acknowledge that part of his legacy is worsening climate change.

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

From this event, the most important thing I learned was that perhaps the IPC famine classification system is not appropriate for siege-famines, where it has been easily manipulated by the Israeli occupation forces, keeping Gaza permanently starving but not quite enough for the system to say “famine”

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

Huge, detailed new analysis of Mckinsey's fossil fuel clients - I know you already think it's bad but trust me, it is worse than that -->> www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 106 days ago • 21 comments

If these deaths were accidental, the Israeli army needs to be forcibly dismantled without further delay. And if these deaths were intentional, but seen as 'collateral', the Israeli army needs to be forcibly dismantled without further delay.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, this from @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social in @londonreview.bsky.social: "The Tories are now lurching right . . . under a Black leader whose moral cover will allow them to unlock new levels of hostility." #UKPoli www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/no...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

submitted 107 days ago • 254 comments

several attacks on hospitals, aid seekers and aid workers later: still don't

submitted 338 days ago • 5 comments

“82% of all U.S.-based respondents, including almost all assistant professors (98%), said they self-censor when they speak professionally about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. 81% of those said they primarily held back their criticism of Israel.” abuaardvark.substack.com/p/gaza-and-a...

submitted 456 days ago • 3 comments

It’s hard not to notice that the pro-Israel side relies almost exclusively on generalized statements — “Israel has a right to defend itself,” “Israel must remove Hamas” etc — that are utterly irrelevant to the specific ways the IDF has carried out its bombing campaign.

submitted 457 days ago • 24 comments

If you begin by arguing that the term 'genocide' doesn't apply to Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians on some technicality or another, you have to end by arguing that the definition should be revised, or that there are other acts as bad as genocide. That's how morality works.

submitted 456 days ago • 0 comments

There's nothing uglier or more underhand than strategic subservience to bullies. Much better for Sunak, Biden etc to just be honest: 'we've wronged almost everyone in the Middle East with theft and bombs, so we're now scared of them and have to help this country to commit genocide.'

submitted 504 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a letter from a group of us at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, calling for the protection of civilians and health infrastructure, and extending solidarity to those doing jobs like ours under the cruellest of circumstances shorturl.at/ltC16

submitted 505 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine your own fucking outlet, the one you literally died working for, passive voicing your own murder.

submitted 509 days ago • 28 comments

The struggle is to see what's occurring in Gaza as a truly singular catastrophe and as a diagram of what's to come, of a future of increasingly securitized/militarized states and increasingly dispossessed/displaced peoples. Everything depends on siding with the latter.

submitted 510 days ago • 0 comments

Hypocrisy, thy name is Ursula.

submitted 511 days ago • 0 comments

This Guardian 'explainer' explains next to nothing. Two lines, buried midway, mention the 'hardship' caused by the blockade. No engagement with history, no mention of the occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing etc. This is strategic obfuscation, and it's a form of propaganda.

submitted 514 days ago • 0 comments

If you never give an oppressed people a chance to organize in normal politics, it shouldn’t be surprising if they resort to violence. As true among Kurds, whose political opening appears to be closing, as it is Palestinians, whose opening arguably never existed.

submitted 514 days ago • 1 comment

Most common question I get asked as a vegetarian is how can I possibly, possibly be getting enough protein. @arianneshahvisi.bsky.social breaks down just how saturated we are in meat protein, and some of the politics behind this. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/se...

submitted 519 days ago • 1 comment

If you've ever shied away from offering solidarity to Palestinians because you don't feel sufficiently informed, this website, run by Palestinians in the West Bank, offers an accessible but rigorous history decolonizepalestine.com

submitted 514 days ago • 0 comments