EndlessNightmare

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Quality of education matters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Or perhaps soybean oil is a byproduct of the animal feed industry. It sure shows up in lot of products, yet people aren't typically running out to the stores buying bottles labeled as "soybean oil." I.e. it's a cheap industrial filler. Most likely, they are co-products that wouldn't likely exist without each other due to the economics. It should also be noted that soy cake is human-edible, so feeding it to animals represents that inefficiency I was talking about.

Given that less affluent societies consume less meat (on average) compared to more affluent societies, this demonstrates that meat requires more resources to produce. Otherwise this discrepancy would not exist. Developing nations consume more meat as they become more affluent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fascists think a whiter population leads to reduced crime rates

Japan has entered the chat. Actually, lots of non-white nations, particularly in Asia have low homicide rates. OP is about homicides specifically, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Gun guns. A gun that shoots out guns. Sounds like something from a Borderlands game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No lives matter (except the rich)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is true on small scale subsistence farms, but it breaks down when scaled up to the amount of meat consumption in typical developed nations.

Look at historical meat consumption for societies built on agriculture (as opposed to, for example Inuit who relied on hunting). You can also look at food consumption by nation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption Affluence and increased meat consumption are strongly correlated. And while veganism may be a luxury, so is high meat consumption. This would imply that modest meat consumption makes best use of these scraps and inedible parts of plants (i.e. efficiency), but that higher levels of meat consumption is wasteful of resources.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Basic high school biology on trophic levels. The "rule of thumb" is that you only retain about 10% of the energy each time you go up a level.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I'm an opponent of factory farms and consider election night to be a fucking disaster. A few small bills may have passed, but the big picture stuff all went in the wrong direction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump will throw Israel under the bus if it becomes convenient (read: profitable) for him to do so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wtf is with them using the word "taps". Not blaming you OP, it's clearly in the article's title. But I see it over and over and over again.

Not isolated, every time the stock market loses 2% is "plummets" or "plunges". Every time a fighter jet is sent to intercept something, it's "scrambled."

Like they all use the same lexicon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Exactly the type of humans you need to rebuild a population.

And also generally not combatants. Or to use the crass parlance "not having military value."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I say officially because they would do so regardless but still.

Oh absolutely. They would use literally any excuse, including something entirely fabricated if necessary.

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