Posts Tagged ‘close but no cigar’
Posted by Irresponsibility It started off well, Tony Naylor’s Guardian blog about vegetarian restaurants. Yes, yes, I nodded, let’s recognise vegetarian food as its own taste experience, expand menus beyond gardenburgers and goats cheese salads. Then it went and spoiled it all by saying something stupid like This conflation of vegetarianism with healthy eating just [...]
Posted by Irresponsibilty Food poisoning from toxic strains of E. coli, mostly the O157:H7 variety, has become a recurring problem. The strain is responsible for an estimated 73,000 illnesses and 61 deaths across the country each year. – New York Times Good news carnivores! The Agriculture Department has given prelimary approval to an E. Coli [...]
The police will strike fast and strike hard at anyone who dares publicly question whatever foul nonsense the government plunges into next. The citizenry has been warned. The jackboots are being laced, the Tasers bulk-ordered.
Posted by Irresponsibility In Australia every year there is an all-woman awards show that hands out ‘Ernie’ awards for revoltingly sexist behaviour (presumably the spend the other 364.75 days of the year trying to whittle down the long list). Consciousness raising is important. Hurrah sisters. Except for this: “The good Ernie went to Wallaby [rugby] [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility Another to file under close but no cigar: Rape Crisis Scotland has a new ad campaign out that most laudably intends to challenge our victim-blaming rape culture. The pictures are eye-catching and on-message, the whole thing drips sincerity but why, for the love of peter paul and mary, did they have to [...]
Posted by Irresponsibility All for giving credit where credit is due but something about Female Impersonator Amelia’s post featuring young male feminists performing at a poetry slam creeps me out a bit. It’s super that the menz recognise women get the shitty end of the stick. It’s super that one of them raps about how [...]
Posted by irresponsibility Stumbled across a post on The Curvature which neatly articulates much of what underpinned my post Reporting Rape – A problem of Perception?. Women are still viewed “unrapeable” becaue they’re too drunk, too scantily clad, too out-on-their-own-on-a-dark-night, too promiscuous or, even, too young. Infuriatingly, blaming the victim is still the default stance [...]
Posted by irresponsibility There is something disturbingly fanciful about the (anonymous) Guardian feature titled ‘Now he can’t hurt anyone else’. It is about a rape – a particularly brutal, random, life-twisting attack. Really, though, it’s about the aftermath, urging us to see the silver lining; the sympathetic, efficient police; the capture of the perpetrator; his [...]
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Meatpacking Industry still a Jungle
6 February, 2010 in abuse, America, corporations, corruption, disease, economy, employment rights, food, health, human rights, industry, journalism, safety, U.S., work, worker's rights
Tags: America, capitalism, close but no cigar, food, immigration, journalism, literature, meatpacking, social commentary, socialism, The Jungle, working class
Posted by Irresponsibility Upton Sinclair’s masterwork The Jungle is essentially contemporary investigative journalism in period costume. It follows the misfortunes of a Lithuanian immigrant family as they are systematically cheated, exploited, and abused by the meatpacking industry. The grim expose didn’t have quite the impact Sinclair hoped for, however. Middle-America, with its penchant for “we’ll [...]