Wednesday, 15 January 2020
5x5
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
klimahysterie
missioners
catagories: ๐บ๐ธ, libraries and museums, religion
ps-752
catagories: ๐จ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ฆ, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, Middle East
whyy
Monday, 13 January 2020
flexitarian or opportunistic omnivory
While we think it’s a case of moral panic on the part of the beef and dairy producers to try to outlaw calling an item almond milk or a meatless burger and no one will be duped or harmed by it, we agree with Cynical-C in finding something insidious and dishonest in the label plant-based itself.
Marketing machines are creating a false dichotomy and are on the verge of forcing consumers to choose between health and animal-welfare and the environment when we can indeed have and ought to demand both. Butter from plants is after all just a much-maligned margarine re-branded and such a diet that might have been called vegan—or aspiring in that direction, is shunted under that all-encompassing (and therefore empty) รฆgis to avoid past conceptions and associations. Not all food substitutes for a carnivorous entree and we shouldn’t let contentious marketers convince us otherwise.
dansa ut julen
Literally dancing out Christmas, some Swedish communities are celebrating Knut’s Day (previously) as the end of the holiday season by “plundering” the tree of its ornaments and ceremoniously tossing it out on this twentieth day (imagine that carol) of Yule—Tjugondag jul—set aside as Knut’s name day (see also).
Sunday, 12 January 2020
lotr or there and back again
Via Kottke, we are invited to explore and rediscover the web presence of veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen, which includes among its deep linkages about his acting career and other projects the blog, journal he kept from 1999 through 2003 during the production of Lord of the Rings.
catagories: ๐ฌ, 1999, networking and blogging, Tolkien