spoofball

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by spoofball 10y ago
> This is not an obvious jump or foregone conclusion. You said it yourself it's unavoidable. I'm not advocating for withholding, I'm just baffled by the call for sustainability when it isn't. You can't grow 50kg
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by spoofball 10y ago
But that is a hundred year old story. I can't see what is so insightful about that. (small scale is efficient for local needs) What he's not mentioning at all is that the Africans and Indians will get conditioned by meat. Their cu
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by spoofball 10y ago
The way chickens are raised today, you'd be insane to raise chickens. Chickens of the old, roamed the grass, picking little shits that no one could find or eat, growing slowly but steadily, surviving and mating. Today, they gorge on so
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by spoofball 10y ago
and people think technology will solve global warming, but floods, fires and tornados still unmatched by human ingenuity. 2060 - year when rainforests disappear 2049 - year when oceans get empty tech, solve that!
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by spoofball 10y ago
I'm not saying it is the same. It's just that our reactions to the cognitive dissonance are the same. For example, you had attempts at laws of humane handling of slaves during the US slavery period. Slaves were disposable creature
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by spoofball 10y ago
Well, an argument of taste comes into mind. If my life is based on daily enjoyment in my meals then giving up flesh is lowering my happiness. The enjoyment, the participation in a carnivorous human culture is integral to my existence. Food
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by spoofball 10y ago
You mean, microorganisms allow better deconstruction of cellulose which then frees the protein and makes it digestable? Yeah, ruminants are amazing with their cyclic puking and eating :)
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by spoofball 10y ago
Cognitive dissonance is everywhere. It was massive during the slavery period of the USA. Or now, when billions of non-human animals pollute the planet and trillions dying every year. Cognitive dissonance makes life bearable. If I were to kn
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by spoofball 10y ago
No one is talking about standards. I'm talking about food that might make your dog sick or malnourished. But to each his own.
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by spoofball 10y ago
usda when measuring cooked or raw beans, for example, measures them differently. for example cooking 100g of beans in 500g of water would result in, let's say, 450g of beanwater (beans + water). usda takes 100g of that beanwater and sa
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by spoofball 10y ago
same thing is for protein present in grass but indigestible for humans. cows can extract "enormous" amounts of protein from foods that humans wouldn't ever. it's very hard measuring how much digestible protein something
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by spoofball 10y ago
the majority of pet food is meat not fit for human consumption. [1] if you aren't feeding your pet meat that you eat, it's living on extreme crap. [1]: http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-industry-exposed/u
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by spoofball 10y ago
Self awareness is present in many mammals. Not just humans. I'm not really sure how we can think of giant leaps in cognition when evolution never works like that.
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Ripple is a Silicon Valley-based startup making milk from peas(techcrunch.com)
6 points by spoofball 10y ago|2 comments
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by spoofball 10y ago
Biggest problem is animal agriculture. The use of extremely aggressive antibiotics increases muscle growth, improves health and eventually leads to larger profit. 150 billion land animals raised yearly are a big evolutionary pool of bacteri