Evil Dead II
Directed by Sam Raimi (1987)
Four companies own nearly 80% of the plant-based meat market.
“Plant-based meat brands are hardly an alternative to the current system if they continue to entrench corporate power,” concludes the Food & Water Watch report. “It shows the futility of voting with your dollar,” Starbuck said.
It’s a concern echoed in the IPES-Food report, which says corporate control threatens to undermine gains from reducing reliance on animals by replicating some of the problems of the traditional meat industry, including mass-produced, monocultured ingredients and energy-consuming methods. Increases in meat alternatives could “reinforce the power relations that keep current systems in place, and fail to address the question of how systemic changes will be achieved,” notes the report.
The flamingo tongue snail (Cyphoma gibbosum) lives along coral reefs in the Caribbean and parts of the tropical Atlantic.🦩👅🐚
It feeds on gorgonian corals, which have toxic soft tissue. But the snail isn’t put off by the coral’s toxicity—it repurposes the chemicals for itself! Its bright color and pattern are aposematic, meaning they act as a warning sign to potential foes to keep their distance. But even its unpleasant taste doesn’t stop some predators, like the pufferfish or hogfish, from making a meal of it!
Photo: fideodeloeste, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
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