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I'm so confused these days. We can't use compost. We can't use wood because that's bad. We can't use plastic or metal. We shouldn't eat meat or processed food (
by sam345 3y ago
I'm so confused these days. We can't use compost. We can't use wood because that's bad. We can't use plastic or metal. We shouldn't eat meat or processed food (and definition of process takes care of most things outside of the produce aisle). A lot of plant foods apparently are poisoned with contaminants or are full of carbs, etc. If someone finds a way to live in this modern age and survive please let me know.
- netsharc 3y agoFish are full of mercury, there's even plastic in fruit[1]... we've poisoned our environment so much that nothing is "clean" any more. I suppose your comment is more of a moan against what you perceive to be "the elite"'s (the rich, the media, the Davos class, etc) fearmongering, but hey, we're not designed to survive infinitely anyway... [1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-getting-into-our-food https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-g...
- lazide 3y agoI take it more as frustration. All available information sources are full of bullshit and conflicting information too, so good luck quantifying any of the available information on hazards. Frankly, ignoring it all and just living a reasonable life with reasonably low processed foods seems about right though.
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- belorn 3y agoThere are ways to live that can tick all the boxes except for one: It does not scale. If we accept non-scaleable methods then household chickens are great. They keep pets away from gardens, it reduce the need to cut grass, and they are much better than composts. Naturally this method is limited to people who own a house and have garden/outdoor area that is suitable, and where local government allows it. An other great but non-scalable method is to eat anything that is invasive or which population is a major threat to bio diversity, assuming one do not cultivate or raise it. There are some obvious risk of perverse incentives, but it can be utilized to benefit the environment when done right.
- Ferret7446 3y agoNot possible, studies have shown that living is harmful to your health. Life has a 100% death rate. Our ability to identify things that might shorten our lifespan has far outpaced our ability to apply that knowledge usefully. For most of human history you ate what you could and hoped it didn't kill you in a few weeks. It was only relatively recently we even had the capability of discussing things like long term cancer risk or what not.
- mercer 3y agowell and also relatively recently that we've had the capability of fucking things up on global eco-system scales.
- delfinom 3y agoTo be fair, for most of history, food didn't have cancer risks attached.
- nightowl_games 3y agoHistory is a dark place where most of us didn't live long enough to get cancer.
- tmikaeld 3y ago“Living has a 100% death rate” There’s a tshirt idea
- theNJR 3y agoOur food system is pretty well poisoned. You have to be incredibly intentional, and even then it’s hard to escape all of the negative effects.
- dkasper 3y agoI think you can use compost, you should just test it if you don’t know what was put into it.