• Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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    10 hours ago

    If Brian Thompson was the CEO of Coca-Cola, I’m sure they’d try and justify his murder by pointing to obesity rates, plastic waste, and evil chemicals like HFCS.

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      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        8 hours ago

        One of the most haunting photographs I’ve seen was a black dude whose skin was covered in scars because of stirring boiling sugar pots to make molasses by hand and gobs of molten sugar would stick to his skin and burn the fuck out of him. The misery around the sugar industry goes back centuries.