3 ms·

I find your idea attractive, but centrally planning agriculture has a hideous track record. Market forces have made a mess too, but in the form of destroying pu

I find your idea attractive, but centrally planning agriculture has a hideous track record. Market forces have made a mess too, but in the form of destroying public resources like aquifers, soil, and the climate. Both lead to famine, just on different timelines. "We can do better" makes me think of the weight loss new years resolutions people make. We won't do better, because we haven't changed. The failure isn't a lack of knowledge, but human nature. I agree that if we are to centrally plan it, we'd want to have things like roots, leaves, and the most sustainable animal proteins we can find. Eggs are great, but allergies are relatively common. Milk is the same. Farmed fish can be done well, but that also has allergies among those who also have shellfish allergies. Plant proteins work well for people who don't have legume allergies, but they aren't that sustainable for rice or soy. Pea is ok... maybe just egg chickens and the old hens go to those allergic to eggs?

LinuxBender 3y ago
I think allergies should also be addressed at the root of the problem rather than trying to side-step it for everyone that has allergies. Rather I would like to see functional medicine focus on finding all the root causes of a persons ailment and cure the root causes not just allergies. There is already a lot of progress being made in this area in big part by understanding the gut, gut health and gut bacteria both beneficial and detrimental. While I am not a fan of fecal transplants as that seems very unscientific to me, I have personally had great success by by-passing the stomach for advanced cultures of probiotics with with MCT oil, several trillion CFU per dose.
- galangalalgol 3y ago
  I think money will get put into autoimmune research due to long covid, which might help with allergies too, and yeah, gut biome will almost certainly be part of that. We should acknowledge too that different genotypes need different diets.
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

LinuxBender 3y ago

I think allergies should also be addressed at the root of the problem rather than trying to side-step it for everyone that has allergies. Rather I would like to see functional medicine focus on finding all the root causes of a persons ailment and cure the root causes not just allergies. There is already a lot of progress being made in this area in big part by understanding the gut, gut health and gut bacteria both beneficial and detrimental. While I am not a fan of fecal transplants as that seems very unscientific to me, I have personally had great success by by-passing the stomach for advanced cultures of probiotics with with MCT oil, several trillion CFU per dose.

galangalalgol 3y ago
I think money will get put into autoimmune research due to long covid, which might help with allergies too, and yeah, gut biome will almost certainly be part of that. We should acknowledge too that different genotypes need different diets.

deleted 3y ago

[deleted]