“There is much more to branding than a logo or style. It is a manifestation of power.” –Rodney Abbot, Caps Lock, pg. 131 “It is important to understand the violent part of the history of branding, not just the exceptionally barbarous acts from long ago, but as a fundamental capitalist strategy. The transatlantic slave trade…
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What We Eat is Nothing if Not Political
“To threaten the primacy of meat in the American diet is to threaten a pillar of what it means to be a free American.” The above quote comes from a great article in The Nation by Eamon Whalen titled How Red Meat Became the Red Pill for the Alt-Right. The article gives a fantastic history…
Every Seed Is Awakened: Why I’m Not Vegan or Vegetarian (Yet)
“If you are a feminist and are not a vegan, you are ignoring the exploitation of female nonhumans and the commodification of their reproductive processes, as well as the destruction of their relationship with their babies; If you are an environmentalist and not a vegan, you are ignoring the undeniable fact that animal agriculture is…