This may be a new study, but it’s confirming what was known already.

Of course, CNN is trying to dilute the message and claim some magical middle ground:

“The goal shouldn’t be perfection but rather a healthy and sensible dietary pattern that allows room for enjoyment,” Kuhnle said.

From the abstract:

We conservatively estimated that—relative to zero consumption—consuming processed meat (at 0.6–57 g d−1) was associated with at least an 11% average increase in type 2 diabetes risk and a 7% (at 0.78–55 g d−1) increase in colorectal cancer risk. SSB intake (at 1.5–390 g d−1) was associated with at least an 8% average increase in type 2 diabetes risk and a 2% (at 0–365 g d−1) increase in IHD risk. TFA consumption (at 0.25–2.56% of daily energy intake) was associated with at least a 3% average increase in IHD risk.

emphasis added.

Eradicate the cow farming sector and the fly problem goes away.

quick calories: sweet fruits, dried fruits

slower calories: pretzels and crackers

better calories: a fresh fruit and a whole grain sandwich with some spread, some condiments, some leaves.

classic low effort: the mix of nuts and dried fruits (like raisins)

Nuts and seeds alone are obvious, but they also have a lot of calories and may not provide calories that fast, so you can end up overeating. That’s why I go for more starchy snacks from cereals, if any. Try to eat dense calories with more fiber, especially fat.

It also helps to have a bigger breakfast. Speaking of a nice porridge, there are all sorts of portable “oat bars” and similar things. Those can pack a lot of calories too, often too much. (You can make them at home, it’s not that difficult.) If you can’t find those, try looking for “work-out bars” that are plant-based.

And watch your weight. The need for snacks can be a sign that your breakfast was too small.

The Pale Blue Bean

is piefed social down?

RIP Amazon people, forest and climate tipping point.

Only applies to artists who can no longer enjoy the spoils.

Add the else branches to the nested version and log the failed conditions (to make it more obvious).

China banned the farming and trading of most wildlife species for food in 2020, but these practices have simply gone underground. “We are back to business as usual,” says Vincent Nijman, a conservation biologist at Oxford Brookes University, UK, with “millions and millions of animals being traded on a daily basis”.

So much for “individual action is pointless, the government should make the big changes”.

1. “Owning” pets isn’t vegan. Hosting rescued animals, sure.

2. If you kill a pig to feed a cat, it’s like a “zero-sum game”. This means that you need a secondary criteria to make the decision, if you don’t want to play favorites (make a biased decision over who lives). This is the bloody chaos created by animal breeders.

In this situation, you are the “death panel”. Just ask people who work in animal shelters how they make the decisions, that may be a better guide than rolling dice or flipping a coin.

Like with other domestic animals who’ve been genetically sabotaged by humans, the goal is their extinction. “Pets” also include exotic animals, in which case sanctuaries and returning them to the wild are worthy goals.

Dogs can make it, cats are an issue and it would be good to have some of that non-animal-based “lab meat” for cats. And people who want these non-human animals to be like fitness models - pictures of ideal health or “platonic forms” of pets - are not serious people, they live in privileged fantasies and should be ignored.

I always forget if I’ve already signed one of those. So I checked the folder I keep the receipts in.

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This infographic is for people who cook. Most of these substitutions are for baking.

Not just land use. Arable land (not “marginal”) can be considered as an input to production, a variable in the outcome. It is not the only variable. As we’re talking about industrial agriculture, the other inputs are machinery, seeds, agrochemicals, and fuels (and labor if you want to count it here).

The animal farming sector competes on all these in one way or another, raising demand and pricing out poorer farmers around the world. This isn’t necessarily a rule, but it’s common and it matters; not all inputs are near scarcity. The most important one is probably fertilizers: Savings in fertilizer requirements from plant-based diets - ScienceDirect

Ex. from 2021 Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks | Reuters

This is made worse by the fact that the rich “developed” countries dedicate a lot of resources to animal farming, including feed crops, and they bring in loads of ag. subsidies for that. Poorer countries can’t afford meaningful subsidies, so they can’t compete to buy the expensive inputs as easily. Effectively, subsidies for eating animals in rich countries translates, through the invisible hand of the global ag. inputs market, into food insecurity in poor countries. I’m not the first to point that out: https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/0a8bd248-025d-49fd-99e2-d8ae972fa124/content

And marginal land competes with forests, wetlands, biodiversity. “Marginal land” is a poisoned concept: https://tabledebates.org/blog/marginal-lands-sustainable-food-systems-panacea-or-bunk-concept

Fuck that channel.

Not really a challenge, the “climate friendly” idea is pseudoscience and creative accounting.

Given the advised quantity is impossible to achive, I’d never have a chance so you can spare the vegan preaching

You can take choline supplements, so it’s not impossible. Vegan preaching will continue. The assumption here that you’re not sharing is that you want some magical “natural diet” while living a completely unnatural life. You have a medical condition, which was discovered thanks to modern medical science, modern biology and chemistry, and yet you imagine that you must obtain some “natural sources” as if that’s an enchanted biological material instead of the very obvious: you’re OK with sacrificing sentient beings for your fantasy of “natural independence from modernity”.

Oh, and factory farming is responsible for most of the animal products. That’s part of your fantasy issue. Let’s put it this way. If there were no factory farms, not only are you statistically unlikely to get your hands on eggs and livers, but if you had hens, you could afford only a small number of hens and your economic situation would pressure you to sell the eggs, not to consume them.

Take the supplements.

If you want to go full “primitivist”, then understand first that the humans as “primitives” can only survive as tiny populations, a fraction of how many humans we have today. You would’ve probably died as a natural abortion or in childhood, just like me.
It’s bean a huge displeasure to talk to you, I hope that you remember me.

Yeah, it’s bad to know your enemy. Victory comes from being an ignorant belligerent.

I like the False Knees version more.

https://store.falseknees.com/products/dtf

“modern pig production”

Chilean-born Marco Evaristti is courting controversy to make a point about the treatment of pigs in Denmark, where about 25,000 piglets die daily as a result of the conditions in which they are bred.

wait until Marco finds out that they are bred to be killed.