Only the one at the 3-o-clock position is anarchism in the first place; exploiting other beings for what their bodies produce is not anarchy.

Enough B12? No, there is no easy way to know. The symptoms of deficiency are many and very diverse and overlap with symptoms of other health problems, and the blood test for vitamin B12 is not a reliable indicator. The most reliable test is urinary methylmalonic acid. If you have a B12 deficiency, the body’s ability to break down methylmalonic acid will be impaired, and the amount of that substance in your urine will be higher than normal.

Thanks for this response. I’m not involved with the telegram chat and have no contact with the people there; I heard about it from someone else online, and then I thought of your post and had this idea. Even if I were to get the Matrix equivalent up and running, someone else would need to contact the people on telegram to let them know about it.

I’ve heard of there being a “telegram” chat thing for the vegan communities in Ecuador, and I wonder if that could be moved to the Matrix space somehow. I’m not so familiar with how Matrix works, but if the vegan space could allow private or invite-only rooms, then it should work, right? I don’t have any contact with the people using the telegram chat, but if anyone else does, maybe suggest that they make the switch?

I obviously do not support or condone the activities of the “poor, local artisan fishermen” mentioned in this documentary, nor do I support or condone the activities of governments, police, military, or “environmentalist” organisations claiming to protect the ocean.

I posted this some time ago: https://slrpnk.net/post/20461336

Amazon Restore also has a Resources section and posts regularly on their Pixelfed account.

There are other projects listed here that may be of interest.

@iaudi@piefed.zip

I am NOT Jim West.

Grass is a pestilence that should be eradicated worldwide, but legumes can be excellent support species, and some even make tasty fruits. Dialium guineense is one that most people don’t seem to know, but apparently bonobos like it!

food forests

I would argue that growing your own food and NOT cooking it is even more revolutionary.

I’d be curious to know your strategy (if you have one) for moving toward food self-sufficiency. It seems as though your current situation is not serving you, and I wish you success in finding something that does.

As long as no sentient beings were used without their consent (e.g. to extract genetic material), then I see no ethical issue from a vegan point of view. I do have to question though, on a finite planet with an ever-worsening ecological catastrophe, whether developing such products is an irresponsible use of time and energy and material resources.

I can’t really disagree with you. It is possible, especially with community support. Rather than saying that not everyone can grow all of their own food, I should say that for the disabled poor living in urban environments in very cold or dry areas of the world, growing 100% of their own food would be much more difficult and/or require more innovative methods. Thank you for not backing down on this. We should never give up. Do you grow all of your own food now, or are you still in the process?

“ It’s difficult to accept, and not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, but if we can,” I totally disagree, seeds from food, even cheapest, can be grown to plants for food. Do not even need adults to learn & do this, super easily, the children can do it.

When I say that not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, I mean that some people may be trapped by poverty or disability in an urban environment in an inhospitable (desert/tundra) climate where they have limited space for growing food and the growing season is too short to have year-round production. For non-impoverished able-bodied people, yes, growing and foraging all of one’s own food is perfectly feasible.

I was not focused on bring-up awesome alternatives like this, more awareness, too as many people as possible. I did not think there were so many people that already knew this, like it seems you do. I hope everyone gets how bad this is for efforts to save our Living Earth & All Living Beings on it! Thank you!

I’m glad that you appreciate what I wrote and what those projects are doing. :)

Of course growing your own food or knowing the grower is the only way to ensure that something is vegan. Corporate- and carnist-controlled agricultural operations often use animals as fertiliser and eradicate wild animals not just on the farm itself but in the surrounding area as well as a pre-emptive measure. Everyone has a right to protect their food supply, but what you’re describing here seems like the active pre-emptive killing rather than a response to the non-humans’ actions.

It’s difficult to accept, and not everyone is in a position to grow all of their own food, but if we can, then of course growing our own food forests using veganic methods is the most peaceful and practical option. Amazon Restore and Pacha Libre are promoting this, and there are probably other committed ethical vegan food forest projects in the world of which I’m not aware. Community and local food production in harmony with the forest and native animals… I imagine that such is the solarpunk way.

I am a furry woodland creature, and I approve this meme.

EDIT: I am using “furry” as a synonym for “mammalian” here.

my bees

my goats and chickens and cows

A solarpunk culture would strive to dissolve every form of social hierarchy and domination – whether based on class, race, gender, sexuality, ability, or species – dispersing the power some individuals or groups wield over others and thus increasing the aggregate freedom of all; empowering the disempowered and including the excluded. It is rooted in the legacy of such liberatory movements as anti-authoritarian socialism, feminism, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, disability struggles, animal liberation, and digital freedom projects.

Owning other beings as property is not solarpunk.

Not to negate the points made in the article, but one could say “______s are amazing animals” about pretty much any species. Some animals have unique traits that humans have not yet learnt to appreciate, but that doesn’t make them any less of a marvel.

As a logical conclusion of this course of action of only consuming a diet of basically fruits and humans who died naturally, the hivemind acknowledges that they will eventually run out of food and starve to death

I’m not familiar with this fictional world, so I may be missing something obvious, but is there something preventing them from planting more fruit trees?

But they didn’t do it out of recognition of the rights of dogs and cats. Fuck these headline writers.

Not specific to Disroot, but since they are based in the Netherlands, you should be aware of Nine Eyes and always use end-to-end encryption. I know someone who avoids Disroot specifically but has not stated a reason for it… He uses envs.net though.