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by sjwalter 5y ago
Eh, regardless of what you think of the source, it's backed by hard, verifiable evidence. Peak Prosperity was not about prepping much at all until Covid, as far as I know. Dr. Martenson started pushing home gardening and stocking up wh
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One real great reason to care one way or the other is that the lab leak vs. natural origins debate heavily informs whether or not GoF research makes sense at all, as in, whether it should be pursued or globally & aggressively banned. Th
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This whole narrative was revealed ages ago by internet reporters, particularly by Dr. Chris Martenson of peakprosperity.com. What's not being reported even in this Intercept article is that Fauci and the Eco Health Alliance are heavily
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by sjwalter 5y ago
Calling the investigatory and experiential evidence of thousands of highly-trained doctors (some of whom pioneered the standard of care for covid) as "weak evidence" is something that only somebody carrying water for large pharmac
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And in the meantime, if you buy into the crazed insanity of "pandemic! pandemic! omg we'll all die", then it makes tonnes of sense to treat people with a highly-available, incredibly safe medication that frontline clinicians
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> The major paper that drove most of this situation, and the meta analysis, appears to have been a straight up fraud. Umm, wat?! The vast majority of the studies about Ivermectin have been observational, run by front-line clinicians. Pri
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There's a certain large detail elided by this, which is basically the experience of opening up a container from China. When you're doing any kind of non-trivial amount of manufacturing in China, you've got a chain of exporter
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I dunno, I mostly agree with you, but I think lately, at least with my family and friends, the coronavirus political response has made many more people much more skeptical about centralized authority figures. The narrative that is commonly
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You should read Euell Gibbons, one of the finest Americans to ever live, gourmand, gatherer, hunter, and writer of Stalking the Wild Asparagus. We are all much closer to edible food in our natural surroundings than you are making it seem. S
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> ... we can certainly replicate them in a lab... Well, maybe we can. But, for instance, a cow that is finished entirely on pasture--a good deal of its nutritive quality comes from the grasses it eats. Where does that nutrition come from
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The goal of my farm is kind of like a principle espoused by Ben Hunt of https://epsilontheory.com . He said we should create a tax regime based on the principle that 1000 millionaires is preferable to 1 billionaire. (The tax regi
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This is only partly true. One of the problems with almost all cattle pastures, even those that do 100% pasture-raised beef, is that cattle are like all animals and they have habits and preferences, so they tend to congregate in the same are
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These, I've learned upthread, are not "lab-grown meat" producers, at least not yet. They're in the factory-produced GMO soy-based, highly-processed meatlike substance business, currently.
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This is a great point. One of the things several of our customers who hail from India have told us is that our chickens remind them of the chickens they got back home, and can still get back home, but are aside from small producers like us,
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by sjwalter 5y ago
This is Season 1 of my farm and we literally are turning customers away, despite our meat being ~2x more expensive than grocery store meat. I am not in the slightest bit afraid of factory/lab-grown meat supplanting my little farm. Rega
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We've tried many times to make in labs and factories foods that are "better" than what Nature provides, however we've failed every single time, though we have created a number of large agribusinesses and marketing conglo
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I think the notion of "lab-grown meat" is laughable. As mentioned in another reply, it seems to be based on this idea that we can somehow grow in a lab something that requires an incredibly complex environment to grow into healthy
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It is currently an outlier, but my goal with the farm is to be riding the currently-growing wave of small farms directly marketing to consumers, who care deeply about their land, the local ecology, and the welfare of their animals. Our cust
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I have no ethical qualms with killing animals. I do all my own slaughter and processing and exclusively eat meat that I either killed myself (pigs & chickens on my farm), or that I traded with farmer friends for (sheep & beef) who h
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by sjwalter 5y ago
That argument falls apart quite quickly with just a little thought. The taste and nutritive quality of meat has many, many factors going into it, and the genes are only one tiny part. For example, the amount of omega-3s in pasture-raised ch
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by sjwalter 5y ago
You're making "consuming meat" equivalent to "consuming factory farmed meat". I agree with you on the horrors of factory farms, but farms like mine ( https://mulligan.farm ), wherein we raise our chickens
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I raise chickens on my pasture on my small farm. I assure you, they are not anything like you described. And across breeds, they have wildly different cognitive capacities, so a broad-stroke description like this is inherently inaccurate.
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"Lab grown" is a marketing term that actually means "highly-processed plant-based food-like substance created in a factory". Anybody claiming that highly-processed things like this will have anything close to the same he
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by sjwalter 5y ago
I'm a farmer, not a teacher, so I can't answer this question as asked. But I would speculate that of the set of people who bombed the class, they could fall into a number of buckets. E.g., one bucket is people who were mentally ca
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> Saying that "some people just can't learn" so-called "advanced" math such as college algebra and calculus, or programming for that matter, is just pointless speculation with zero evidence to back it. What abou
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Yes, different environments exclude and include some people, those who may be on the border of capability seem likeliest to be impacted here. That still doesn't mean that ALL people can learn calculus, given enough attempts to find the
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Obviously there are people who couldn't learn a given topic under one type of educational regime but who could under a different regime. But that doesn't eliminate the obvious: Some people can't learn a given topic at all, un
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The thing is, the nutrient content of the resulting food plays close to zero role in the creation and marketing of food. Consumers, broadly, shop on looks, and even the health-conscious consumers who eat raw, whole, organic foods might be e
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Not to mention, Toronto's housing stock is full to the brim of extremely cheaply-built condos. I have family that work in various levels of the construction industry there, and the story is the same everywhere: Buildings thrown up with
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> a world free of covid isn't on anyone's best interest LOL!

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