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But did it count as deception if it was done in the name of self-protection? Withholding vulnerable information was a habit born of survival. I’d been lulled into letting my guard down before, only to later regret it, the admissions used
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“Flavor was and is secondary to symbolism when it comes to eating meat or rejecting it.”
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
“In contrast, black nationalist eaters saw their food practices as an aspect of nation-building. They wanted to create a black nation that operated in lockstep, unified by ideological and cultural goals. Black culinary radicals used ideas about food as a means to opt out of white U.S. culture and into a black cultural nation.”
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
“And there are those companies that—though well-intentioned—want to mold veganism and vegetarianism into capitalism’s image rather than use it to end oppression in all forms.”
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
“That is why the idea of the “plant-based diet”—whether vegan, vegetarian, or flexible—needs to be reinvigorated and understood as a political stance that rejects efficient but profit-driven industrialized agriculture as much as it abhors the slaughter of confined animals.”
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
“I feel … that decolonizing your lifestyle is literally just going back to your roots, asking a lot of questions and asking where your food came from as well,” she said.”
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
― No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating
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