"Some of the [historic] strategies used by the system to exercise violence are sterilization, incarceration or even murder. These strategies have evolved as the capitalist system has evolved. These strategies arise from the need of capitalism to create and promote the idea of an efficient body, capable of producing maximum economic and social benefit. Since industrialization, what prevailed was the body understood as a source of labor. The efficiency of the body, linked to health standards set by medicine, looked for the body’s functionality. The medical standard defined the expected efficiency of the body, and thereby linked bodily health to economic productivity.
With consumer capitalism, production becomes so consumer-driven, that advertising, visual and aesthetic ideals take precedence. Social success, therefore, gets linked to the physical, and social ascent, will reflect how well your body conforms to aesthetic ideals, to the norm...Medicine under consumer capitalism will be responsible for promoting health linked to the aesthetic field, bodies that resemble the idea of consumer beauty will be considered healthy. Which in turn leads medicine to standardize bodies in order to achieve both health and beauty, creating the ideal of healthy, beautiful, good, slim bodies. Bodies will be adapted to fit this standard, which legitimizes the non-genuine."
- Itxi Guerra, The Fight Against Ableism, article from a fanzine, translated from Spanish 5/9/23.
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On top of everything else now, the stove in this house stopped working a few days ago. We can't cook anything. On Thursday someone is meant to be coming to look at it but who knows how much a repair will cost or if my landlady can pay? If not, I am dreading having to make another mutual aid post so soon, I always feel like people will think I'm taking the piss if I ask for too much help. We only have a microwave working right now, which means food is even more expensive now as I can only get things that need to be microwaved, like ready meals, or things that are already prepared and ready to eat like rotisserie food or pre-made sandwiches.
I have an idea that can work for short time like a month or so in long term will be difficult, you can ask someone, a neighbour or someone you know if you can cook there. Then you can cook a huge batch of beans, freeze them in ice tray and whenever you want food you put one in the oven. If you have electric rice cooker then you can use that for warm steamed rice otherwise you can freeze rice as well. Beans are quite nutritious so they'll keep you full for a whole meal on their own if you can eat them with a salad and yogurt. I hope it isn't anything major and your stove gets fixed soon.
But the oven doesn't work. Anyway i barely know my neighbours, i wouldn't feel comfortable asking for such a favour. I once locked myself out and stood outside in the rain for 6 hours rather than ask them for help.
Damn that sucks :( i hope your stove gets fixed enough. peanut on toasted bread seems like a good enough option for emergencies but I wouldn't recommend it for an entire meal however if you can afford some vegetables a salad with toasted bread with be filling as well sadly vegetables are so expensive right now, potatoes might be the only vegetable that can keep you full for a low enough cost.
I have so many food intolerances due to my cancer treatment i can't eat bread or peanuts. I can't really eat anything now other than chicken, carrots and spinach without getting very ill, which sucks as i wanted to be vegan.
That's sucks soo much, I am sorry that's happening to you. Only way to cook any meat is a grill or stove of some kind so I don't think there's any other way to cook some chicken and spinach with carrots don't make a complete alone :(
I just have to buy ready-cooked rotisserie chicken, which is more expensive and using up my gift cards quicker.
Meats are already so expensive on top of that you need ready-made yea I can imagine.