it’s saturday and i’m here to remind y’all that calling latinxs “hispanics” is
1) prioritizing a label created by gringxs instead of the identity that latinxs built for ourselves.
2) conflating us with the spanish, who are colonizers.
3) erasing non-spanish speaking latinxs –both those who don’t speak spanish due to assimilation and those who aren’t even linked to it, like, for example, all of brasil/brazil.
Hello!! Here is a post to remind you that vegetarians and vegans do not have a higher rate of iron deficiency or anaemia, and you can still eat an iron rich diet without eating animals! The foods listed above are just a handful of ways to get your recommended daily intake of iron; for vegetarians/vegans who menstruate, that’s 32.4mg a day, and for those who do not - 19.8mg a day. Some other cruelty free iron sources include bread, pasta, potatoes, cashews, dark chocolate, kidney beans and fortified cereals. If you eat vitamin C rich foods alongside these, your body will absorb the iron up to five times more efficiently! So basically, if you are eating a variety of wholegrains, legumes, nuts, seeds, dried fruits, iron-fortified cereals and green leafy vegetables, your iron levels will be beautiful, no murder necessary 🌟
when i wrote this i stated the recommended daily intakes for vegans based on the premise that vegetarians and vegans need 1.8 times the normal RDI - but actually the study that founded that idea gave a group of people meals with iron inhibiting foods and drinks, and another group a meal full of iron rich and vitamin c rich foods, and then they based the recommendation on the former??? also the study is 25 years old???? anyways the point is the more accurate RDI for people who menstruate is 18mg a day and people who dont is 8mg a day thank you ~