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☆ A food fight is raging over what we can and can't call 'meat'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Morten Toft Bech, the founder of a startup that makes plant-based meat alternatives, brought the animals in protest. Meat lobbies argue that plant-based products have stolen the concept of meat without matching its taste and nutrition standards, tarnishing the integrity and cultural importance of meat. It tends to argue that plant-based meat alternatives shouldn't be allowed to use meaty terms at all because, put simply, they aren't meat. Meat bodies want startups to come up with new terms for plant-based food that imitates meat. Both meat organizations and plant-based companies told Insider they encouraged a healthy, balanced diet.

☆ These recently elected trans lawmakers say anti-LGBTQ bills inspired them to run
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Julie Moreau | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

Zooey Zephyr, the first out transgender woman elected to the Montana Legislature, was inspired to run after her state passed three pieces of legislation targeting the LGBTQ community. 'Real, tangible effects on trans people'State legislatures have increasingly become battlegrounds over LGBTQ rights. Republicans began introducing legislation targeting queer rights at an increased clip in the wake of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell vs. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationally. In 2017, Republicans introduced 129 bills targeting LGBTQ rights, many of which focused on issues of religious freedom. However, she believes bills targeting LGBTQ rights are ultimately a losing strategy.

☆ ‘Slumberland’ strands Jason Momoa in a nightmare of a movie
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Review Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A movie about dreams becomes the stuff of nightmares in Netflix’s utterly misguided “Slumberland,” an attempt to build a sprawling fantasy adventure from the bones of the early-20th-century newspaper comic strip. Most notable as a vehicle for Jason Momoa, this wannabe spectacle from “The Hunger Games” director Francis Lawrence serves up lots of special effects desperately in search of a story. The realm of dreams is described as “a world with no consequence,” but as constructed, that comes in a movie with no clear creative compass, proving more mystifying than magical. Along the way, they run afoul of something called the Bureau of Subconscious Activities, a surreal bureaucracy that sees Flip as an outlaw. Those attributes feel wasted, however, in the surreal confines of “Slumberland,” which, as amusement-park-type names go, doesn’t even qualify as a nice place to visit.

☆ Minnesota candidate on coming out as queer midcampaign: 'I felt it was important'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Julie Moreau | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Moriarty, a candidate for Hennepin County attorney — whose jurisdiction includes Minneapolis — came out as queer on the campaign trail in January. “It could be a risky thing, coming out publicly during the campaign, but I felt it was important,” Moriarty told NBC News. She spent over three decades as a public defender in Hennepin County, and in 2014 she became the county’s first female chief public defender. “I had been talking about race and the policies of the current public attorney. I got accused of calling a justice partner a racist in public.”Moriarty wasn’t reappointed as chief public defender after that, she said.

☆ In a political first, two gay candidates face off in congressional election
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Julie Moreau | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

A historic number of LGBTQ candidates will appear on ballots across the country in November. It is one of 16 competitive races in which LGBTQ candidates appear, and which may decide control of the U.S. House, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund. 'It was going to happen sooner of later'The odds of a faceoff between two gay candidates have gone up in recent years, because there’s been an increase in LGBTQ candidates at all levels of government. Santos is the only openly LGBTQ Republican running for Congress this fall, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund. “The issue is not that both of us are gay,” Zimmerman said.

☆ Top marca FineWine. 10 cele mai bune vinuri moldovenești ale anului 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-15 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +7 min

Pentru al cincilea an la rând, Andrei Cibotaru de la FineWine face un top 10 al celor mai bune vinuri ale anului. Este vorba de vinuri care au fost lansate în acest an (a nu se confunda cu roada anului 2020). Linia include mai multe spumante de calitate, produse după metoda Charmat, dar și vinuri liniștite. Cupaj de Cabernet Sauvignon și Pinot Noir (50:50 %), doar 2.5 g/dm3 de zahăr natural și doar 12.0 % vol. Crama Equinox produce doar vinuri din strugurii proprii, iar Echinoctius adună în sine doar ce-i mai bun.

Persons: Andrei Cibotaru, Andrei, Aurelius, Aurelius Winery Aurelius, ., Arcadie Foșnea, Autorul, Cantemir, Prisăcaru, Seguin Moreau, Ștefan Vodă, Oleg Boboc, Gogu Winery, Gogu, Berliner, Negru, Constantin Stratan Organizations: Blanca, International Wine & Barrel, Bar Locations: FineWine, Moldova, Leova, Crama Mircești, Mircești, Republica Moldova, Mosel, Minis, Haragîș, Bugeac, Olănești, american, California, Oregon, Căușeni, Neagră, Negru de Purcari, Purcari, degustat, Republicii Moldova, Bruxelles, Equinox

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