But they still publish recipes with eggs, the innocent unborn embryos of chickens. Disgraceful!
Not to mention recipes using plants that are either eaten alive or die a slow death on a stove or in an oven.
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#62But they still publish recipes with eggs, the innocent unborn embryos of chickens. Disgraceful!
We eat unfertilized eggs which will never turn into a chicken, so really it's just an single cell.
Unless you eat Balut but that's not common in the west and definitely not a recipe on Epicurious.
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And what about forest-killing soy and avocado plantations? What about water-guzzling fields? The “environmental” story of vegetarianism is such hypocritical bullshit.
Your examples are still much better then beef. Beef creates the pressure for forest killing soy btw.
What about grass-fed beef like we have more of here in Europe?
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US govt subsidizes many grains and provides socialism to farmers to make soda and burgers cheap, at the cost of healthcare and the climate. Often, fast food is only what poor people can afford.
True enough. I wouldn't call it "socialism" though. The reality is that individual / independent farming isn't economically viable since farmers have to compete with these large factory farms. Most farmers running factory farms at the behest of large private corporations who define what the farmer can and can't do because they invest in these farms. Factory farms aren't diverse farms: they produce only one specific c…
I think the OP was sarcastically noting that "socialism" is often used to mean "anything the government does that doesn't benefit me". Including many farmers, at least by stereotype.
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Indeed. I have seen a study that suggested free range cows in Australian grasslands were even less CO2 intensive per calorie than grains and also made use of land which wasn't farmable. However such a thing can't really scale because of the large area required.
Link to study?
Here is one source[1] this science is not new. The no dig farming movement takes this further because they don’t till the land the soil retains more co2.
[1]https://www.soilassociation.org/media/4954/policy_soil_carbo...
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#66I was much more concerned about my beef consumption before watching this WIL video. It put things in perspective for me. The efficiency of beef production in each country, how water and land use calculations are done, equivalent nutritional value compared to other crops was very interesting. It doesn't negate the moral problems with factory farming, but that wasn't the intent of the video. https://youtu.be/sGG-A80Tl5…
Thanks for posting this link! Marginal land use, green water use, and inedible feed being standard really puts into perspective what stopping beer consumption would actually do. I found it a surprising perspective.
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#67But they still publish recipes with eggs, the innocent unborn embryos of chickens. Disgraceful!
We eat unfertilized eggs which will never turn into a chicken, so really it's just an single cell. Unless you eat Balut but that's not common in the west and definitely not a recipe on Epicurious.
Some people publicly admit that they think it's OK to eat eggs?! Outrageous! Reading those words are causing me actual harm. Why isn't there a trigger warning? Egg eaters are on the wrong side of history.
I mean it's one thing if you sneak out to Waffle House at 3 in the morning when no one is looking for two over easy.
But anyone who publicly condones this barbaric behavior should be cancelled.
And any company that encourages this barbaric, utterly un-eggs-eptable behavior should be cancelled.
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#68But they still publish recipes with eggs, the innocent unborn embryos of chickens. Disgraceful!
Not to mention recipes using plants that are either eaten alive or die a slow death on a stove or in an oven.
Yes. A thousand times, yes. Electromyography has proven that plants scream in agony at that point. Isn't there a more humane way?
New theories of consciousness posit that everything in the universe has consciousness to a greater or lesser extent. Even rocks are conscious to a small degree. And salt is a type of rock. Therefore, we must all rally together to shut down any company that encourages the ingestion of salt, a conscious being. We nosaltarians must impose our moral views on everyone else.
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#69I do think the problem is there is no differentiation between organic animal husbandry which has proven benefits (the pastures capture carbon dioxide etc) and the intensive factory farms. I have been reasonably selective of my meat sources over the past decade buying from a local butcher who sources from local organic farms and i am a happy customer and not ashamed.
I make similar choices for animal welfare reasons for all our meat, but better husbandry and land management doesn't stop the cow pumping out methane.
The problem is we still refuse to make sacrifices to show an impending climate disaster. We know where we need to be, we know that gestures like organic beef don't get us there. I hope our grandkids forgive us.
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#70But they still publish recipes with eggs, the innocent unborn embryos of chickens. Disgraceful!
Ah yes, doing one thing to improve must be discouraged because it is not doing all the things.