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thanky for posting these, they make me feel more sane <3
Glad to hear it's appreciated! But also, you can be the change you want to see in the world and you too can post stuff like this!
(~Or~ ~do~ ~that~ ~whole~ ~"touch~ ~grass"~ ~thing~ ~and~ ~make~ ~change~ ~by~ ~talking~ ~to~ ~people~ ~and~ ~all~ ~that~)
Going vegan was one of the best moral decisions I've made in my life. It's a lot easier to reconcile my own actions when I know they don't contribute to (as much) needless suffering and death.
Hell yeah!
Studies by show that it's perfectly fine to eat 15lbs of beef a day.
- Funded by Beef Industry
There's of course a lot like that, but it's worth sharing that I did run into an industry funded study once that actually found the opposite anyway despite that donor pressure
Substituting red meat with high-quality plant protein sources, but not with fish or low-quality carbohydrates, leads to more favorable changes in blood lipids and lipoproteins.
(one of the authors received support from the beef checkoff program, pork checkoff program, national dairy council, and American egg board)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.035225#d3646671e1
Fair but I'm also using this to state a truly unbelievable amount of research is funded by biased parties.
The fact that an author was funded by big beef, pork, dairy and egg really makes my point.
Yeah it's an insane amount of research that gets industry funding, and it's not always even clarified super well when the funding is more indirect. Like I remember reading this article that stood out to me
He’s an Outspoken Defender of Meat. Industry Funds His Research, Files Show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/climate/frank-mitloehner-uc-davis.html
One of the worst political nightmare fuels I've experienced came not long after the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse blew open and was revealed not to be a few rogue interrogators after all, but in fact there's a whole CIA program for extraordinary rendition and enhanced interrogation.
Have of all Americans, the Republican half, suddenly decided that torture was AOK and that waterboarding wasn't torture.
Including my own dad.
It was like the community just stopped pretending we were trying to do a pluralist liberal democracy after all... which is what I thought we were trying to do.
wrong community, this should be on not-the-onion.
I know you're joking, but the literal part of me wants to answer with: Only in that it's not technically from the onion. It is a satire article which I presume are banned on not the onion
yes, your literal part did the right thing and you can be proud of yourself. well done <3
Thank you, thank you. I tried really hard by typing out the first thought in my head
good job, really <3 <3 i'm also proud of you, just so you know.
Sorry my ears weren't working when I read that, can you try sending it again? Like the validation part specifically, you know /s
aha oh of course i can send that again ~
i think you did a great job pointing out that this is in fact a satire post and not meant to be taken literally and i'm really happy that you shared that with me because an alternate version of me might now have known that so i think you did the right thing and i'm really just - i'm really happy that you did that for me cuz that's just good to know and such and also come here <3
come here
Thanks, that did the trick. Ears worked that time
Sounds like this could have been a chapter in The Best Democracy Money can Buy. Forget the name of the author.
I assume it's this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Democracy_Money_Can_Buy ? Wikipedia says the author was Greg Palast
Yes!
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