1748

I agree with you. I didn’t mean to make a statement about anti-GMO people, though what I said was terse and ambiguous. I meant that I have issues, like you, with Monsanto and patents, and one of the downsides of GMOs is that they can be patented and those patents abused. I try to avoid buying food that goes back to Monsanto and large agribusiness in general, but it’s really hard to figure that out.

The fact that (some, many, most, whatever) anti-GMO people are looney, well, throw them in with the flat-earthers and the UFO folks and the anti-5G’ers… at least they’re not storming the capitol, so they can go to the back of the line of people I’ll roll my eyes at.

I wonder how true this is. It’s easy to point fingers and assume that lacking critical thinking skills in one area leads to a similar lack in another, but I’m not sure. The anti-vax people, though, are causing real harm.

1749

It’s more that every single one of either groups I’ve ever conversed with was in both groups.

1750

I’d eat nothing but GMO as long as the crops haven’t been slathered in pesticides and herbicides. So if I had a choice I would never eat round-up-read crops… ever. Other GMO stuff would be great.

1751
1752

This struck me as pretty cool

1753
1754

Can someone dumb that down without using the words “meson” or “probably”?

1755

IIRC the [particle formerly known as Prince] is supposed to decay into electrons and protons, equally. But they are seeing more electrons and that shouldn’t happen.

Of course I could be very wrong. Others may chime in and correct me. Probably.

1756

There’s a particle made of two quarks, one of which is a bottom quark. Usually when the particle decays, its bottom quark decays into a charm quark, but occasionally, it will decay into a strange quark instead. The standard model of particle physics predicts what happens when this strange decay occurs, but it appears that observations don’t exactly match predictions–the strange quarks fly off at the wrong angle–, which suggests that there may be an as-yet-undiscovered particle or interaction out there that explains the anomaly. The deviation is statistically significant, but not definitive as of yet.

1757

Thanks!

1758

Time for some Brazilian BBQ.

1759

“For example, the academics explained that humans have a high acidity in their stomachs when compared to omnivores or even other predators, which is important for consuming animal products.”

As high as cats or hyenas I have heard.

One theory I thought was interesting is that we got very good at scavenging off animals like lions.

The stomach acidity is to do with killing off germs in meat, fresh meat with fewer germs and more rotten meat with more germs apparently.

Also, organs have more nutrients.

It’s a bizarre mental image to think of us grabbing the liver and running away before a bigger animal came to challenge our kill, or of us in groups scaring off lions so we could nab their kill.

But yeah, meat is good for us.

Or rather, good meat is good for us.

There’s some scary shit in the super markets…

1760

Yeah. The customers.

1761

No doubt. The real issue is 7 billion apex predators cultivating a billion tons of beef.

1762

On this topic:

And when you’re at the store, there is one dietary change to consider that beats all others in terms of its climate impact. It is not eating locally or seasonally. It is not eating organic or fair-trade. It is not eating unprocessed foods or avoiding big-box and fast-food retailers. It is eating less meat.

The main, mooing offender is beef. Cattle are responsible for roughly two-thirds of the livestock sector’s greenhouse-gas emissions, while beef and dairy products are responsible for about one-tenth of global emissions overall. Gram for gram, beef produces roughly eight times more greenhouse-gas emissions than farmed fish or poultry, 12 times more than eggs, 25 times more than tofu, and even more compared with pulses, nuts, root vegetables, bananas, potatoes, bread, or maize.

Beef is so bad for two reasons, Michael Clark, a scholar of food systems and health at the University of Oxford, explained to me. The first is that it takes a lot of inputs to produce beef as an output: about 20 kilograms of corn and soy protein to produce one kilogram of beef, he said. The second is that cows produce methane as they digest their food. “Other types of animals don’t do that,” he said. “And methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.”

1763

1764

Have you had boerewors?

There are sausages, and then there are…sausages.

1765

I’ve read about the Boer War but I don’t think I’ve had a boerewor before. Checking the Wiki… wow, they once made a boerewor that was just under a mile long? Now that’s a spicy meatball!

1766

It’s a south african sausage that is mostly chunky (not pureed) meat, with some spices, maybe a touch of garlic.

Delicious.

About as far from your standard processed hot dog as you can get imho :).

Then again, I haven’t had a hot dog in…years.

1767

There is a lot of effort right now to replace muscle meat with artificial meats, but they’re not… affordable, and for some on alternative diets, seem offended by them. For example, why make a fake patty bleed… well it’s really for appeal to meat eaters, not the vegetarians.

I am hopeful that alternatives are out there but the organic and fair trade stuff… it’s just so much more expensive.