Need a break from your family this Thanksgiving? Come celebrate Now It’s Ruined-style! Larkin busts the idyllic myth of the first Thanksgiving before giving a rundown of how nutritional standards were shaped by the military-industrial complex and horrific experiments on Indigenous Canadian children.
CW: Graphic Violence, Food Trauma, Medical Trauma
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References
History of nutrition science
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/361/bmj.k2392.full.pdf
Canada’s shameful history of nutrition research on residential school children: The need for strong medical ethics in Aboriginal health research
Noni E MacDonald, Richard Stanwick, Andrew Lynk
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3941673/
The dark history of Canada's Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy; Zoe Tennant 2021
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3787164/
https://gladue.usask.ca/sites/gladue1.usask.ca/files/gladue/resource559-2d380424.pdf
Military Influence on Modern American Nutrition
Hannah LeBlanc
The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue
Claire Bugos 2019
https://wampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/wampanoag-history
https://plimoth.org/for-students/homework-help/who-are-the-wampanoag
https://www.history.com/articles/squanto-pilgrims-help-plymouth-thanksgiving
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/resources/Cranberry-Day
https://www.rd.com/article/history-of-thanksgiving/
King Philip’s War
https://www.history.com/articles/king-philips-war
https://www.history.com/articles/turkey-thanksgiving-meal
Nutrition
https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/vitamins/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20805686/
https://www.britannica.com/science/amine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK216786/
Nuremberg Code
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-code
Hungerplan
https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/hitler-s-hungerplan
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34907689/
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