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Serious answer, the earth's magnetic field weakening is accelerating [1] [2]. It began declining in 1859 [3] but the changes have increased in recent times, with the magnetic pole …

Thanks for this list. This may be useful for those interested in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's dietary practice to "only eat that which our ancestors ate 1000 years ago", aka the antifra…

> compared being trans to wearing black face He also compared transwomen genitalia to vegetarian meat substitutes (Impossible Burger and Beyond Burger)

The majority of food waste however is fruit and vegetables (about half), some meat is still wasted but is among the lowest category in food waste.

American-style beef jerky is almost invariably sweetened, unfortunately. I ran into this same problem, but found a slightly different product without sugar: South African-style bee…

> with a wire connecting him to a power outlet. I forget the logic behind that. Likely this is an attempt at what is known as "grounding" or "earthing", with the goal of reducing i…

> Since you don't have eyes sensitive to the EM wavelength of Wi-Fi, you can't shine a 'wifi light' too brightly next to you. This is dangerously wrong. Vision damage is not preven…

From the very article you linked to: "Because it doesn’t contain its own minerals, distilled water has a tendency to pull them from whatever it touches to maintain a balance. So wh…

Yes traditionally oatmeal is soaked overnight, but how many of these producers of oat "milk" products will take the time to perform this extra step? I first found out about soaked …

3-5% fat is actually considered high-fat, for comparison, cow's whole milk is typically 3.25%, low-fat is 1% and skim/non-fat is 0-0.5%. Interestingly, the fat content of milk can …

I prefer this alternative naming by The Onion: https://www.theonion.com/fda-defends-decision-to-reclassify-... Astute as ever, America's finest news source turns this marketing-dri…

Is this the almond milk you buy at Costco? https://www.costco.com/Kirkland-Signature-Organic-Almond-Bev... It may be unsweetened, but it has a lot of added ingredients you might no…

> I'd take lactose over fructose or glucose any day. I came to the same conclusion, to expand on this point: lactose = glucose + galactose, and there is some interesting research o…

To provide a counterpoint: - Fiber doesn't ward off colon cancer, according to the Harvard School of Public Health: "For years, Americans have been told to consume a high-fiber die…

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price The Hunting Apes: Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior by Craig B. Stanford The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and …

Consider if lectins were not a risk when heating food, then castor beans would be completely safe to eat after cooking: the toxic component of castor is ricin, a lectin. The most c…

> I don’t think we’ve fully grasped the long term health consequences of introducing new seed oils into the human diet We are beginning to understand the effects of seed oils (mark…

I regret butchering the paraphrasing in my previous reply to you, this is I believe the most powerful point (at least the most convincing to me personally) so I want to make sure i…

> It would be much more efficient to eat the plants straight instead of feeding them to animals to get their meat. The problem is although plants have nutrients, most of them are i…

Cattle naturally eat grass, in a symbiotic relationship with the grasslands. Joel Salatin, legendary proprietor of Polyface Farms, considers himself a "grass farmer". He maintains …

> Make a zero-carbohydrate meat substitute, and I'm interested. Otherwise, no. This is a good point, one reason many people (including me) have been eating more meat lately is to r…

> Better make sure those "tried and true" substitutes don't use any of those... This is precisely why I, for one, have recently chosen to begin eating real meat after 10+ years of …

What are these cultures which existed solely on vegan diets? Honest question, I searched but couldn't find the answer, there was a response on Quora which mentioned some Buddhists …

> If someone can find a way to make a product near-indistinguishable from meat without raising and killing animals, it would be a massive victory for the environment (meat producti…