Activism Made Sweeter
Activism Begins At Home.
Little by little, torches and shovels were replaced by screens with accusatory images of animals being mistreated in the meat, egg and dairy industries. I'm talking about the activist group "Anonymous For The Voiceless". They're spread all over the world. I went to protest a few times with the group of my city.. All I did was hold the screen and take coffee breaks. I was aware that in some other way besides speaking, I would be acting though.
Eating is a political act. In the Polis of ancient Greece, politicians offered bread and circuses to alleviate social complaints. Queen Maria Antonieta, according to historians, told the common people to eat croissants while they claimed there was no bread on the table. African slaves used the pieces of beef that the sugar mill owners discarded and created the famous feijoada, a symbol of resistance and cultural value, today.After 1888, in the so-called old republic, there was a dynamic of changing presidents between São Paulo (coffee producer) and Minas Gerais (cow milk producer) known as the politics of coffee with milk.
《《《The results of the movements (with boycotts and social pressure) in the following texts 》》》
From oppression, like a flower sprouted from concrete, the Enlightenment Movement emerged with the French Revolution, which supported democracy and the abolition of colonialism in American countries (with revolts and food boycotts) and later, in 1888, after strong social pressure, a food boycott and a little common sense, the abolition of the slave regime in Brazil. Consecutively, the establishment of the Estado Novo with the populist politician Getúlio Vargas, who established labor and social rights for the population.
The historical squeak serves to exemplify how food and political life are correlated, however, currently, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, from the Indian to the Pacific, how sociopolitically important this is, is not realized, due to lack of information, a considerable portion of the population is alienated. As the modern industrial production system is criticized by Karl Marks, which illustrates how the final result of a product is seen without knowing the processes prior to its final result. Following this line of reasoning. The bread we buy at the bakery is made with GMO wheat, patented by companies like Monsanto, which is still responsible for socio-environmental crimes and abuses. And they don't even disclose what a GMO food means. The jam on the croissant you eat is made with fruits intoxicated by pesticides and fertilizers, which pollute the tributaries and the water that comes out of your tap. The milk you drink is, most of the time, made in conditions that do not respect humane treatment. Abusing female cattle from birth to premature death. And I finally got here... the daily coffee, that holy break from the day-to-day. As bad as it is to write this, I read an article that said that Nestlé's Nescafé sponsored conflicts in the Middle East.
When we boycott brands and companies, we are no longer sponsoring them, and it is a progressive path that is done in reverse. Change begins at home and then, more directly, takes to the streets. To protest against injustices that the food industry has cultivated for centuries and centuries, spreading misinformation. In short, it is not necessary only to participate in activist groups to be revolutionary. Just use GO-O-GLE (or in its meaning, go eat with your eyes) to gain knowledge and have that as a starting point of changing.
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