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Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by padjo »

Jedd wrote: post #214
padjo wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on reading that article I think his position is still that we should be eating far less meat than we currently are.

> Based on reading that article ... I reiterate my recommendation of Fairlie's book, which goes into much more detail than George Monbiot's brief article where he responds to same in the Guardian some 13 years ago. I note in that article, however: "If we stopped feeding edible grain to animals, we could still produce around half the current global meat supply with no loss to human nutrition: in fact it's a significan…

I think it’s also worth considering what level of meat eating would be sustainable if we extrapolated out to everyone on earth doing it. I think we’re extremely fortunate that vegetarianism is so common in India

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by sshine »

hermitcrab wrote: post #181
PaulRobinson wrote: post #127

My non-fiction pile is very peculiar to me (maths, probability, gambling, Rust and Elixir books, a backlog of a load of recent Humble Bundle deals), but I have some solid fiction recommendations: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is the sort of novel where you start to get sad as the weight of unread pages in your right starts to lighten. A novel about some friends who build some games (set in the…

>short stories unearthed after his death. Very disappointing Perhaps that is why he never published them?

As Neil Gaiman tells, Terry Pratchett had his hard drives steamrolled upon his death to prevent any half-done work from being released.

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by globular-toast »

laserbeam wrote: post #201

The bible - am not a religious person, don't want to become one, and I mean no shade to religious people. However, as I now read it, I'm surprised by how much western culture references it. People use examples, names and scenes from the bible much more often than I realised and it helps to recognize that. American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Oppenheimer was an ok movie, the book it's based on is bet…

I read the first few pages of Genesis many years ago and I was surprised that pretty much all the non-Jesusy bits I'd heard of were in the first few pages. It moves at a remarkably quick pace. Entire civilisations come and go in paragraphs. I had the impression all of this stuff was spread throughout like a novel. I was left wondering what the other 1000 pages are about (not enough to want to read them, though).

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by Scarblac »

Jedd wrote: post #214
padjo wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on reading that article I think his position is still that we should be eating far less meat than we currently are.

> Based on reading that article ... I reiterate my recommendation of Fairlie's book, which goes into much more detail than George Monbiot's brief article where he responds to same in the Guardian some 13 years ago. I note in that article, however: "If we stopped feeding edible grain to animals, we could still produce around half the current global meat supply with no loss to human nutrition: in fact it's a significan…

I think Monbiit's book argues successfully that it's so hard to grow plants in a way that keeps the soil healthy (as little tilling, added nitrogen, pesticides and herbicides as possible) that there just wouldn't be space for livestock.

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by Scarblac »

TexanFeller wrote: post #208
Scarblac wrote: post #129

_Regenesis_, by George Monbiot. About how we can realistically feed everyone on the planet long term, in a way that doesn't destroy nature, keeps soil healthy and more able to deal with climate change, and is also affordable. Very good. Very well sourced, sceptical of romantic ideas that just don't scale. Given that we currently use 60% of our agricultural land to feed livestock, that we then use to produce 12% of ou…

Steaks and bacon are some of the few things that make life worth living. I'd rather talk about population control for humans to achieve sustainability(maybe necessary in the end anyway) than deprive ourselves of the joy of a burger.

That sounds reasonable, as long as it's a choice. It's harsh and ineffecyive to ask people that aren't as attached to burgers to have their population controlled for them.

So people should have a choice, either go vegan, or they can enter the giant lottery where 90% gets population controlled by bullet or similar and the other 10% wins the right continue to consume burgers and other animal products the rest of their lives.

Or at least, that's what I understand when I read comments like yours.

In the meantime, you could try some plant based burgers. They're not a direct replacement but many of them are quite good on their own terms, and there is a huge variety.

(90/10 split is a guess)

Re: Ask HN: What are you reading these days?

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Post by devchix »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #72

Bluey: Camping When Bluey is on a family camping trip, she meets a new friend, Jean Luc. Join them as they plant a tree, hunt a 'wild pig' and learn about the magic of friendship.

This episode broke my heart with its wholesomeness! I'm a grown ass adult and I watch Bluey unashamedly. I don't even have a kid companion to provide cover. It's such a layered show, with themes that resonate with adults as well. Cafe, where Bluey as a kid makes friends immediately with another kid, and Bandit and the other kid's dad were very cagey about how fast is too fast. Puppet subtext is as serious as any Ridley Scott Maker/Creature theme. Space is about revisiting traumatic events in one's past, and a gentle advise on how to deal with it. "I am Magic Claw. Magic Claw has no children. His days are free and easy." Hilarious and true.
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