Did you know that Pandas have the same digestive systems as other bears. They can process animal protein correctly. However , since they eat bamboo mainly. they have to eat an extreme amount of it to gain any benefits. so it's inefficient for them to eat hundreds of pounds of bamboo. If they ate fish and other animals like the other bears, they wouldn't be so endangered.
I had a close friend who was the classic college aged vegan with dreads -- she was never in people's faces about it, but was dedicated enough to not eat things like altoids because they have gelatin. She would occasionally get on a soap box about eating meat, wearing leather, and MSG (etc), but it wasn't really annoying -- it was more comical because she partied like a rockstar. Drugs, drinking, smoked (American Spirits of course) all of which somehow fit into the vegan lifestyle. Needless to say the veganism and dreads did not last long.
There was a fake study that MSG was basically poison and it took off like the vaccination causes autism paper -- it was just something I remember her and others in that orbit going on and on about. It's not strictly a vegan thing as it is basically salt, but only allowing healthy things into your body.
Vegan/vegetarian is really popular in the heavy metal / punk rock scene. My cousin took me to one of the mosh pit shows in Houston a couple years back, they were selling vegan cookies inside, and had 2 vegan taco trucks outside, I was pretty surprised, these people were also doing drugs, smoking, drinking. I got kicked in the face by someone diving off the stage, a memorable night.
"Feeding cows a few ounces of seaweed daily could sharply reduce their contribution to climate change": https://theconversation.com/feeding...e-their-contribution-to-climate-change-157192 excerpt: Methane is a short-lived but powerful greenhouse gas and the second-largest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. And the majority of human-induced methane emissions comes from livestock. About 70% of agricultural methane comes from enteric fermentation – chemical reactions in the stomachs of cows and other grazing animals as they break down plants. The animals burp out most of this methane and pass the rest as flatulence. There are roughly 1 billion cattle around the world, so reducing enteric methane is an effective way to reduce overall methane emissions. But most options for doing so, such as changing cows’ diets to more digestible feed or adding more fat, are not cost-effective. A 2015 study suggested that using seaweed as an additive to cattle’s normal feed could reduce methane production, but this research was done in a laboratory, not in live animals. We study sustainable agriculture, focusing on livestock. In a newly published study, we show that using red seaweed (Asparagopsis) as a feed supplement can reduce both methane emissions and feed costs without affecting meat quality. If these findings can be scaled up and commercialized, they could transform cattle production into a more economically and environmentally sustainable industry. more at the link
We shouldn't make people feel bad for being born a certain way is probably a better wording. IE humans born as omnivores. Obviously no one is preaching that we accept fat slugs at Wal-Mart or meth heads and not have them face ridicule.
There is a whole bunch of misinformation in your article. Not the seaweed-in-feed part, that's been interesting as a study for a couple of years, hope it pays out.
Having some lettuce or beets in the Smoker doesn't sound very appetizing. So that's why. Ribs, Brisket, chicken, turkey.....and those delicious burgers I had last night. ...in moderation of course.
Besides bacon, I also would NOT want to feel like a preachy atheist in a world full of bible thumpers. Why would I want to live a life of penance only to be constantly judged as "that person?" The person who gave up being an omnivore just to be different?
26 light years away. But even more disturbing is that they sent us video of Hitler at the opening ceremony. That's more than enough of a clue not to do.
Did you decide you didn't like meat for taste or dietary reasons and then retroactively redefine torture and cruelty to malign those who do, and what are the metrics or parameters of this lower standard of living? Climate change is at least easily quantifiable and can be traced to very specific chemical and combustion activities over the last 75 - 150 years, but animals have been eating other animals forever so that's a constant in positive or negative doomsday simulations.
