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Tomato Sandwiches are #AntiCapitalist
Today's post is about #communist breadlines. Kind of. Not really.
It's about how our current system destroys diversity and the health of ourselves, our worlds, and our planet. This is a product of multiple factors such as #capitalism, specialized labor, or democratized demand.
It even destroys our tomato sandwiches.
https://www.revoluciana.net/tomato-sandwiches-are-anti-capitalist/
Truth be told, this is technically last week's post, but I'm only now getting around to sharing it on Mastodon.
I'm still recovering, both mentally and physically, from emergency gallbladder surgery, but I'm doing quite a bit better and trying to take first steps to get back in the groove of writing and posting after a month-long break.
Wild how much a physical issue can drain your mental capacity even when you're ancy.
Excerpts:
"Whenever I go to the grocery store, I imagine the processes and events that have brought me each piece of food that I select. I'm not exaggerating– every single item, every single time. I imagine the vast amount of blood that has been spilled for my inexpensive bananas, and to make them consistently the most purchased item of all at retailers such as Walmart. We call bananas murder-fruit in our home."
"I remember that all the apples you and I have ever eaten are descended from two trees from the last wild apple forest in the world, near Almaty, Kazakhstan. In this forest, there are varieties of apples that are very different than what we consume, varieties that exist only the forest.
I imagine the Svalbard Seed Vault."
"I think about how all tomatoes used to have flavor."
"I think about how in the US, outside of a Thanksgiving turkey and the occasional seafood, there are essentially only three animals which are regularly consumed, all of which have been successfully domesticated over vast amounts of time:
* Chicken
* Pig
* Cow"
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