Citazione
“Quanto dev’essere distruttiva una preferenza culinaria prima di decidere di mangiare qualcos’altro? Se contribuire alle sofferenze di miliardi di animali che vivono vite raccapriccianti e (spessissimo) muoiono in modi altrettanto raccapriccianti non è motivo d’ispirazione, che cosa può esserlo?”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Se Niente Importa. Perchè Mangiamo Gli Animali?
Media
… Continua a leggereA plantation is a hierarchical, exploitative monoculture. In agriculture, it’s “an .. estate, generally centred on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop”. Google’s interlinked extractive systems are plantations whose single crop is data for ads. They’re designed environments; their parent company, Alphabet, a conurbation of control. Amazon’s warehouses and proprietary, spyware-based web services arm are plantations, with all the connotations of colonialism and coerced labour the metaphor carries. Its marketplace for sellers binds them into literal share-cropping, an exploitative type of tenancy that binds farmers to land