Pretty sure he does understand that slave labor is problematic, considering every other thing he said. He's talking about H&M using slave labor. H&M is not a lingerie or "sexy" retailer. The line would have meant the exact same thing if he said "you don't want your cute little cardigan to be made with slave labor?"

That was a much more reasonable comparison than I expected. It was an accurate examination of hypocrisy.

Agreed. This is the most senselessly biased piece I've read here in recent memory. Well, this week, but it's still appallingly biased.

Well, I didn't really say we all do. It is a standard of North American society at present, deviated from by choice. We also don't all use electric stoves and laundry machines.

Those people choose to work long hours for a defined benefit (the lucrative and respected career path they have waiting for them.)

Yup! I don't think most people have any comprehension of just how fucking easy our lives are. Pretty difficult to comprehend that it would take an entire day to wash your bedding, and hours to cook the sort of meal that takes us 30 minutes. Several days and weeks of planning to cook the sort of meal we spend "all day"…

Yes, people who choose to.

Yes, and none of these tasks take even a 10th of the amount of time they previously did. These drastic changes in labor required in the home allowed women to enter the work force.

Most adult men shave their faces every day or two days. Do you shave your legs every day? .Or wash your hair everyday? ... do you shave your legs when you shower at the gym?

SERIOUSLY. On another article today (the one about how we're too lazy to make po'corn) I read a half dozen comments about how we just don't have time to cook anymore! Because we're all just so much more pressed for time than EVER BEFORE.

I mean, I guess it's true, what with our grueling 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.…

Is it like a private car? I know former rail employees who had first class cabins across the country TWICE a year for free, which seems pretty ballin' but it's nothing like how people travelled in true luxury a century ago. A private train seems waaaay more ballin' than a private jet or yacht. Though I'd also like a…

Having worked near the port in Halifax for a few years, I cannot see how a cruise passenger would find it fun. They maybe venture a few blocks from the docks, very few make it up to anything beyond the pretty old buildings (which are not interesting besides being pretty and old) in the old downtown. So they're…

Great for lots of digestive issues since it's full of the same sort of bacterial culture found in yogurt, and it is essentially the same thing, from that perspective, as apple cidar vinegar. I was having weird digestion (i.e not digesting) issues from starting an anti-depressant a few months ago, and those have…

http://www.crudessence.com/en/services/my…

Crudessence is a vegan restaurant in Montreal and they produce the RISE line of Kombucha, which are very popular, though I find them to not be fermented enough and thus kinda just like iced tea. However, they have great directions for making it yourself. Herein you will find…

Truth! It is actually recommended that you be vigilant about consuming water and kombucha in a 1:1 ratio, because kombucha releases toxins in your body that need to be flushed out. If you don't, you could end up getting flu-ish symptoms from the expulsion of the toxins.

It tastes like whatever tea you use, whatever flavor you use, and however ferment-y you want it to taste (I find it to be like a cider flavor.) I have tasted some horrific store bought ones. I once accidentally bought mint flavor, and I will never forgive myself for deciding to try the blueberry maple flavor. However,…

Good thinking. It probably is a lighter, crispier dough than with croissants. And yeah, grapeseed oil couldn't possibly make a lick of difference to the actual success of the product, just the health and smoking point.

Sweet Jesus I'm hungry.

Kombucha is a great pop alternative, and cheaper than practically everything but water if you make it yourself!

-There is not much sugar in it, the sugar you put in is consumed by the fermenting process
-It is carbonated naturally, which, when you make it yourself, makes you feel like you're magic.
-It is actually good…

It couldn't possibly. There is no sugar or acid of any kind in it. It isn't the carbonation that's the problem in pop. Even with grapefruit Perrier, you're in the clear.

Judging on my limited knowledge of pastry baking and the image above, I can say with certainly that the recipe is something like:

1- make croissant dough.
2- instead of slicing it into triangles and rolling it into crescents, cut out circles as you would a shortbread cookie. Larger, though.
3- poke hole?
4- fry
5- frost
6…