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by slothtrop 2y ago
> diabetes This scales principally with excess weight gain. > The fact is meat is often the central peace of the dish, second the carbs and then salads, cabbages and roots. This is one meal, dinner, and the fact that it is more protei
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by slothtrop 2y ago
I did not say small farms are inherently kosher. Please engage in good faith or don't engage at all.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> They don’t oppose slaughter because they don’t think there’s an alternative That's clearly not true, and a projection. They don't oppose slaughter because they find no objection with killing an animal for nourishment, "n
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by slothtrop 2y ago
> we don’t observe a sufficient fiber intake for most human omnivore. This has no bearing on the argument. That is just as true of vegans who purchase boxed products. It's also fairly US-centric. If you observe countries with the lo
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by slothtrop 2y ago
You mentioned it, so I addressed it. Personally I am just choosy about where I purchase my animal products. You can visit some farms yourself. Of course if you're of a certain disposition, you won't want to do that anyway.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Judging from the headline (I'm not going to read PETA), this is about the issues pertaining to the wellbeing of chickens, not the other externalities I actually mentioned. Land use for animal agriculture has shrunk over time in the U
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Hint: the answer to the headline is "no", which means it should not have been the headline, but that's clickbait for you. Growing your own food costs time and resources. People are attached to the (copious) amount of leisure
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by slothtrop 2y ago
I imagine this scales with size. By comparison, if you own a dog, you have to clean that too. And pick up it's excrement every day.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Why would it be, when you consider that countries with far less condensed supply chain (e.g. Canada) have not been impacted? If we blame commercial agricultural practices for exacerbating the risk then it makes no sense to frame backyard ch
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Bugs are all over your average yard.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Modest egg consumption has a negligible impact on cholesterol. Most blood cholesterol is produced by your liver, impacted far more by other variables. Eggs are also not that high in fat.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Eggs have obvious health benefits. Land encroachment + emissions is modest, and notwithstanding, that's just something to manage, not avoid altogether. Everything we demand for ourselves encroaches on land.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
1 a day
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by slothtrop 2y ago
You skipped a step. Immoral acts are immoral because we deem them so. Animal slaughter in itself is not generally thought as such. Unless you think aboriginal / hunter-gatherer tribes who maintain their traditions are immoral for not m
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by slothtrop 2y ago
It's not that simple. High consumption of animal saturated fat can raise total blood cholesterol, but animal consumption in and of itself does not necessitate that. Notwithstanding, with a balanced diet high in vegetables and fiber, om
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Morality is arrived at through value judgement. We have a social contract with each other, not animals. People generally dislike gratuitous pain and cruelty, hence we're seeing a push for cage-free hens and the like. They don't op
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by slothtrop 2y ago
* gestures to most of recorded history * Before the industrial revolution, 80% of us worked the land, most familiar with animal agriculture.
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China's Plateauing Fuel Use Is Without Precedent IEA Says(bloomberg.com)
10 points by slothtrop 2y ago|2 comments
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by slothtrop 2y ago
captured on archive dot is
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Always been more concerned with data siphoning/spying on the part of Corporations. It's the most egregious and difficult to avoid.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Following their real estate bubble, I'm not sure how much more of that we'll see. Xi seems to want to double-down on manufacturing. They're technically the global leader in solar, scaling up faster than everyone else.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
It's not a long list, and among them is pumping sulfur in the stratosphere. It stops sounding so absurd compared to what's viable, nevermind politically.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
The rest of east Asia is currently developing at a faster pace (e.g. Vietnam), with increasing demand for goods and services. China provides, therefore their output is increasing.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
You can talk about the inefficiency of CC, but this is nonsensical. It's a woefully inefficient means to retrieve carbon in terms of cost. It only makes sense as a means, under development, to reduce prevent buildup in the atmosphere.
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Probably for electricity, but that doesn't represent the vast majority of fossil fuel use. Those are not yet abated.
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The Post-Neoliberal Delusion(foreignaffairs.com)
2 points by slothtrop 2y ago|0 comments
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Right, you can't keep a culture in stasis. It always changes. There's something to be said for protectionism though (e.g. language laws), with varying degrees of success (Japan quashed Christianity quite well, brutally). There&#x2
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Obviously since I brought up the topic, I'm not referring to behavior in the thread I had just then created. > Nobody is disagreeing with this Perhaps, but they obtusely cling on to the idea that there's no possible way that
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by slothtrop 2y ago
Eggs are just signaled out as part of a whole. Inflation impacts many food products, as you well have noticed. Did you grocery bill go up since 2020, or did it not?
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by slothtrop 2y ago
I mean if the avalanche of responses to me doesn't tell you that this was "a thing", there's nothing to say.

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