Consuming Consciousnees
Food, politics, science and social activism...
- Last build:
- Language:
- en
- Feed URL:
- http://www.yay-food.com/?feed=rss2
RSS FEED IDEMS: Consuming Consciousnees
- We’re Looking for Writers!
If you have stories to tell, recipes to share, or news to report, we’d like to hear from you. We’re looking for progressive, antiracist and profeminist writers who are interested in the intersections between food, health, and politics. Help build a community that will support us in our efforts to both be politically active [...]
Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:50:01 +0000 - Education Can Save Your Life: Higher Education, Lower Cancer Risk
A new survey shows that education is linked to cancer death rates. Those with more education had lower death rates from cancer, across race and gender groups. The groups that benefit most in this regard are black men and white women, whose risk of getting cancer was cut 76% at the highest [...]
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:55:39 +0000 - Home-Made Garam Masala
“Garam Masala” is like “Chili Powder” or “Curry Powder.” They’re all names for spice combinations that one is often called to used in recipes, but they vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, so you never quite know what you’re getting. I’m pretty picky about my spices, so I grind my mixtures myself. It’s not [...]
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:16:29 +0000 - Grape Pseudosoda
Since childhood I’ve had an inexplicable emotional attachment to grape soda. Unfortunately, like other sodas, the commercial brands are unbelievably high in sugar, as well as low on natural grape juice. Some studies came out in the last couple of years, though, suggesting drinking grape juice lowers your risk of heart disease. Apparently, it [...]
Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:41:25 +0000 - Hardees Boycott — Sexist Advertising
If you eat fast food, you might want to avoid Hardees for their sexist advertising, and for their inability to understand that it’s a problem to sexualize the student/teacher relationship. Here’s the offensive ad: Tennessee Guerrilla Women has an extensive article on the commercial and the campaign against it.
Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:31:27 +0000 - More Stupid Evolutionary Psych Tricks: Choosing “Mates”
Feminist blogs have been bashing evolutionary psych lately, and for good reason. The pseudoscientific evolutionary psych findings reported and promoted in the mass media provide a seemingly endless series of “just so” stories to support the Status Quo, and they have been particularly bad in the area of gender. Lately pop evolutionary psych proponents [...]
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:21:06 +0000 - White People Sleep Better
The results of a sleep study surveying over 30,000 people reveal that African-American respondents have an increased risk of being short and long sleepers (less than or equal to six hours and greater than or equal to nine hours, respectively) relative to white respondents. Hispanics, excluding Mexican-Americans, are also associated with increased risk of short [...]
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:42:27 +0000 - Why I Am Not An Animal Rights Advocate
This post was inspired by a continuing discussion about feminism and animal rights on the Feministe blog by Jill. It’s human rights that concern me, and it concerns me that many “animal rights” advocates are more willing to spend their time making things better for puppies and kittens and cows and harp seals than they are [...]
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:01:10 +0000 - PETA and the “Pet Question”
I just read a sharp-tongued article on zuzu’s blog that criticizes PETA’s proclivity for comparing animal “holocausts” to human genocides. The comments were pretty interesting, in large part because they reflected a division in feminist thought, with one side clearly placing human rights at the center, and the other side (more fuzzily) supporting “animal rights.” [...]
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:45:19 +0000 - Smoked Trout with Veggie Salad
I love smoked fish, but it’s usually too expensive for me to buy. However, lately I’ve been seeing packages of smoked fish in the deli sections of many of the less up-scale supermarkets, and I’ve been buying smoked trout this way. In my part of the world it costs about a dollar an ounce. [...]
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:44:35 +0000
