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Posted by: rp
« on: March 09, 2026, 11:12:53 pm »

https://x.com/i/status/2031046782000472411
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*Half* of the food produced in the world each year is not consumed by people.

Croplands already produce enough calories to support about 14.5 billion people, nearly double today’s population.

But half is lost to feed for factory farmed livestock, biofuels, or lost throughout the supply chain.

[In America the figure is a truly grotesque 77% of food not consumed by people.]

And we're told that rewilding marginal land poses a threat to food security!

oneearth.org/half-the-world…

Posted by: rp
« on: February 03, 2025, 08:50:15 am »

I do agree that there seems to negative health effects associated with modern day industrially refined seed oils, which of course is Western in origin:


Which is why I try to buy the cold pressed variants instead.

But even this is an indictment of Western food processing, not seed oils.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 02, 2025, 09:10:05 pm »

For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallow

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Tallow is a rendered form of beef or mutton suet, primarily made up of triglycerides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation

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Since 2018, the health effects of consuming certain processed vegetable oils, or "seed oils" have been subject to misinformation in popular and social media. The trend grew in 2020 after podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan interviewed fad diet proponent Paul Saladino about the carnivore diet. Saladino made several claims about the health effects of vegetable fats.[1]

The theme of the misinformation is that seed oils are the root cause of most diseases of affluence, including heart disease,[2] cancer,[3] diabetes,[4] and liver spots.[5] These claims are not based on evidence,[6] but have nevertheless become popular on the political right.[7] Critics cite a specific "hateful eight" oils that constitute "seed oils": canola, corn, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran.[8]
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Opposition to seed oils has been associated with the political right. Professor of Russian studies Maya Vinokour, writing for the socialist journal Jacobin, described the belief as "lifestyle fascism" and "right-wing masculinist discourse".[7]

It goes without saying that seed oil is of Aryan origin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame

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Sesame seed is considered to be the oldest oilseed crop known to humanity.[8] The genus has many species, and most are wild and native to sub-Saharan Africa.[9] Sesamum indicum, the cultivated type,[10][11] originated in India.[6][12][9]

Archaeological remnants of charred sesame dating to about 3500-3050 BC shows that sesame was domesticated in the Indian subcontinent at least 5500 years ago.[13][14] The archaeobotanist Dorian Q. Fuller states that trading of sesame between Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent occurred by 2000 BC.[15] It is possible that the Indus Valley civilization exported sesame oil to Mesopotamia, where it was known as ilu in Sumerian and ellu in Akkadian, similar to the Dravidian languages Kannada and Malayalam eḷḷu, Tamil eḷ.[16]
Posted by: rp
« on: February 02, 2025, 02:53:42 pm »

https://youtube.com/shorts/fVzm7vqVMTU?feature=shared
Posted by: rp
« on: October 18, 2024, 03:31:43 pm »

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1847281628705435846?t=Z2Jbr6ba7PRFRCuO6n8KKg&s=19
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6-YEAR-OLD: "What's your favorite farm animal?"

TRUMP: “I love cows but if we go with Kamala you won’t have any cows.” 🤣
Posted by: rp
« on: September 15, 2024, 06:56:35 pm »

Western "homesteader" explains difference between ranching and farming:
https://www.reddit.com/r/homestead/comments/11i29y3/comment/jawd8h4/
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I have 11ac right now, I'm utilizing only 2 ac right now (continuing to expand every year). This year, we're tripling our blackberry acreage, doubling our strawberries, and adding 1/8acre of high density peaches and cherries.

I grow vegetables and fruit. Looking to get bees again next year (grew up working with them, but the pkg I bought a couple years ago must not have had a mated queen, and the queen left and never came back, so the hive withered away before I realized what was up).

While I do work a PT job to help pay stuff off a little faster, I do alright lol. We grow most of our foodstuffs, and my dad/brother have a large beef herd, so I get beef at live weight prices.

You just have to approach it like a business venture, rather than just a hobby. If you approach it like a kid playing farmer in the backyard, that's all it's going to be. (edit: I realize that sounds harsh, but that's the angle a lot of people who claim you can't make money doing this stuff seem to be approaching it from). I also run a small woodworking, machining, and gun making ("primitive/antique" firearm and airgun) shop in my garage in the winter to make extra money.

In less than 10 years, I expect to be living rather comfortably off of what I do here, possibly even buying more land so I can run animals. We also don't waste money on pointless consumerism either. You'd be amazed how little you can live on if you're producing 90% of your own food, some of your fiber, some renewable energy harvesting, and not buying a bunch of junk.

Permaculture is largely about maximizing efficiency through good planning and working with natural processes (at least that was always my take away). If you have a high concentration of food/resources in a small area, you already are breaking the natural order of things, so it becomes a managed garden of sorts.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: May 04, 2024, 03:01:35 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S669KuXssE
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: April 25, 2024, 02:39:12 pm »

Sigh:

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-h5n1-strain-bird-flu.html

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H5N1 strain of bird flu found in milk: WHO
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Avian influenza A(H5N1) first emerged in 1996 but since 2020, the number of outbreaks in birds has grown exponentially, alongside an increase in the number of infected mammals.

The strain has led to the deaths of tens of millions of poultry, with wild birds and land and marine mammals also infected.

Cows and goats joined the list last month—a surprising development for experts because they were not thought to be susceptible to this type of influenza.

US authorities earlier this month said a person working on a dairy farm in Texas was recovering from bird flu after being exposed to cattle.

"The case in Texas is the first case of a human infected by avian influenza by a cow," said Wenqing Zhang, head of the global influenza program at the World Health Organization.

"Bird-to-cow, cow-to-cow and cow-to-bird transmission have also been registered during these current outbreaks, which suggest that the virus may have found other routes of transition than we previously understood," she told a media briefing in Geneva.

It was only the second case of a human testing positive for bird flu in the United States, and came after the virus sickened herds that were apparently exposed to wild birds.

"Now we see multiple herds of cows affected in an increasing number of US states, which shows a further step of the virus spillover to mammals," Zhang said.

"The virus has also been detected in milk from infected animals."

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 29, 2024, 06:39:39 pm »

Fishing is one field that I positively hope fails to replace its workforce. The victim in 0:30-0:36 would surely agree with me!  :(
Posted by: Schwartze Katze
« on: February 29, 2024, 10:28:50 am »

‘We need this workforce’: Portugal turns to migrants as population ages • FRANCE 24 English
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The small Portuguese fishing town of Caxinas boasts a proud maritime heritage. But today, around 70 percent of its fisherman come from Indonesia. As other countries around Europe increasingly tighten their immigration laws, Portugal has sought to attract new arrivals and has seen its population of foreign workers double in the past five years. With the highest ageing rate in Europe after Italy, these migrants are helping to boost the country’s dwindling labour force, particularly in industries such as fishing, hospitality and farming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22a_qWRQYqY
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 03, 2023, 11:35:58 pm »

Definitely not farming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn6wKigvbiA

Definitely Western civilization.
Posted by: guest78
« on: November 23, 2022, 05:04:15 pm »

Can you tax a cow’s burps? New Zealand will be the first to try.
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In a nation with seven times more livestock than people, taxing farmers for herds’ greenhouse gas emissions is a controversial proposal.
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New Zealand has seven times more residents on four legs than on two—5 million people to 26 million sheep and 10 million cows—and dairy, meat, and wool account for more than half the nation’s export revenue.

But this abundance comes with an environmental cost. Half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, [ARE WESTERNERS NOW SO THOROUGHLY CONFUSED THAT THEY TRULY BELIEVE THAT GROWING WHEAT IS THE SAME AS FORCING COWS TO REPRODUCE???] mostly as biological methane and nitrous oxide from livestock burps, urine, and manure.

So last month, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled a plan for New Zealand’s farmers to pay new taxes based on calculations of their herds’ emissions. The money raised by the tax would be returned to the ag industry for research, technology, and incentive payments to farmers for their efforts to reduce greenhouse gases—by planting trees on their land, for example.
Entire article: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2022/11/can-you-tax-a-cows-burps-new-zealand-will-be-the-first-to-try?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Perhaps, rather than planting a tree and patting yourself on the back, westerners might actually try giving up ranching and actually start farming CROPS for human consumption, instead of primarily for livestock consumption for once!?

According to Westerners, this is what farming looks like:
Posted by: guest78
« on: November 15, 2022, 05:15:57 pm »

Gaza's chicken farmers rejoice in recycled egg trays
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Gaza resident Akram Al-Amour, who began recycling paper waste to try to reduce the emissions caused by burning it, is now turning them into egg trays that are more affordable, more durable, and environmentally friendly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6NC8F0OjqY

Whilst Palestinians themselves have been herded into Gaza by Israel....



Posted by: guest78
« on: September 04, 2022, 05:57:04 pm »

Ranchers Are Selling Their Cattle to Deal with Drought
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Ranchers and their cattle are contending with harsh drought conditions across the American West this summer. In Texas, ranchers are selling off their herds in large numbers and some are even turning to more heat-resistant breeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzP8Q4l3hrw

"heat-resistant breeds" still require grain as a food source:

One hamburger takes 2,400 litres of 'hidden' water to make
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On the way, he shares a wider critique of the environmental damage caused by the meat industry and how society moving toward a plant-based diet could alleviate this.
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‘Water has been fed into the grain that’s been fed to the cattle, the cattle’s been made into beef. One Hamburger is 2,400 litres of embedded water. That’s a heck of a lot of water.’

The documentary also shared statistics suggesting that 27% of humanity’s freshwater consumption goes to produce animal food, and that the livestock sector is responsible for about 15% of all human made emissions globally, which is equivalent to the emissions from all the forms of transport in the world, including the cumulative emissions of planes, trains, cars and ships.

Professor Lang later concluded,

"The message is overwhelming both for public health and environmental reasons. The more plants you can eat, and the less meat and dairy you can consume, the better."
Entire article: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2019/10/one-hamburger-takes-2400-litres-of-hidden-water-to-make
Posted by: guest78
« on: June 17, 2022, 12:11:07 pm »

Gillian McKeith has probably spent more time outside laboring in the elements than Lawson has too I would add, hence her weathered face. A weathered face always tells a more interesting story than a non-weathered face I believe. McKeith may also suffer from the stress of knowing how badly humans treat non-humans on this planet. Stress can weather someone's face even faster than the elements can...