Seems a little difficult to eat an entire country, idk
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Yet when I make that argument to the court, they say “what” and call me a “cannibal”. Smh /s
Myth: Turkeys are killed by the industry for that purpose
Truth: Turkeys just mystersouly show up dead after falling into the big killing machine that the industry had nothing to do with
4·3 days agoJBS and the meat industry as a whole are not only horrible towards farm animals, but are also far worse for workers than most people realize. There are multiple human rights watch reports about working conditions
https://www.hrw.org/report/2005/01/24/blood-sweat-and-fear/workers-rights-us-meat-and-poultry-plants
And unfortunately this is not just limited to the US (though it is worse in the US)
3·26 days agoI can’t speak to them personally, but if chickpeas or chickpea flour are cheaper near you, there are various chickpea-based scrambles you can make instead too! Also tofu scrambles can be (and more often are) with firm tofu instead of silken tofu, if for some reason there is a bigger difference in price between those where you are
I should also add that globally, free-range doesn’t mean what most people think it means, unfortunately
Bringing up a Tyson competitor, the farm manager wonders how other poultry companies handle supposedly free-range-raised chickens. The short answer: They don’t, really.
“Those birds don’t go outside — you know that,” the technician replies. “They don’t all go out … Look that up online.”
The manager chimes in: “It’s not like they make it like all of ’em come out and enjoy the sun.”
“That is strictly for commercial [advertising] purposes,” the technician says.
For something more specifically about Australia
Under the current definition, up to 10,000 hens can be kept per hectare — a density almost seven times higher than earlier welfare guidelines recommended. Some smaller farms choose to keep far fewer birds, around 1,500 per hectare. Others operate at the legal maximum.
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The standards also state that hens should have “regular and meaningful” access to the outdoors, but do not specify what that means in practice.
https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/zoos-and-aquariums/what-does-free-range-really-mean/
5·26 days agoThere’s some communities on here with more vegan recipes if that helps
61·28 days agohigh-quality, plant-based foods, low in animal products
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plant-based sources of proteins and fats were associated with about a 15% lower risk of CHD
7·1 month agoThe author added the entire text in the alt text if you click on the image and then the
to see the full thing. Can easily copy and paste from that or read it there instead
Fair enough that the guy has been able to do a lot of other problematic others things
Was more so intended as hyperbole given a lot of the stuff he’s done lately with the bizarre inverted food pyramid, taking part of dairy promotion campaigns, promoting of raw milk (which has a ton more health risks, but is cheaper for the industry to produce), attempts to paint beef tallow as somehow healthy, claiming to “end the war on saturate fat”, etc.
2·1 month agoUh the UK supreme court also prohibited Oatly from even using “post-milk generation” as a slogan. It’s 100% dairy industry pressure because they hate competition rather than because they actually care about labeling
There’s so much interesting history with plant-milks! For the west, almond milk has an especially long history. Here’s an article about how there was a whole sensation around it in medieval Europe
Outside the west, soy milk has a very long history too.
A tofu broth (doufujiang) c. 1365 was used during the Mongol Yuan.[1][2] As doujiang, this drink remains a common watery form of soy milk in China, usually prepared from fresh soybeans. The compendium of Materia Medica, which was completed in 1578, also has an evaluation of soymilk. Its use increased during the Qing dynasty, apparently due to the discovery that gently heating doujiang for at least 90 minutes hydrolyzed or helped to break down its undesirable raffinose and stachyose, oligosaccharides, which can cause flatulence and digestive pain among lactose-intolerant adults.[14][15] By the 18th century, it was common enough that street vendors were hawking it;[16] in the 19th, it was also common to take a cup to tofu shops to get hot, fresh doujiang for breakfast. It was already often paired with youtiao, which was dipped into it.[17]
Yep! It grew popular in medieval Europe periods during lent, but it ended up going far beyond that
But the sheer number of recipes from the Middle Ages that use almond milk, particularly those that combine it with (decidedly un-Lenten) meat, makes it clear that chefs came to regard it as a staple instead of just an alternative ingredient. Almonds turn up everywhere; in the first extant German cookbook, Das Buch von Guter Spise, dating to around 1350, almost a quarter of the recipes call for it.
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Almond milk appeared in more overtly sweet dishes, too. A strawberry pudding could be made by soaking strawberries in wine, then grinding the mixture together with almond milk, sugar, and an assortment of spices, before boiling it all to thicken it.
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Describing the diet of a pair of priests in 15th century Dorset in her book Food in Medieval Times, Professor Melitta Weiss Adamson, of the University of Western Ontario, writes that “almond milk must have played a significant role in their diet judging from the quantities of almonds bought.” She calls the late Medieval world’s appetite for almond milk not just a “love,” but an “addiction.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/almond-milk-obsession-origins-middle-ages
Not only that, but even in 1755, plant milks were already in the dictionary
- Emulsion made by contusion of seeds. Pistachoes, so they be good and not musty, joined with almonds in almond milk, or made into a milk of themselves, like unto almond milk, are an excellent nourisher.
Next thing I know you’re going to tell me peanut butter comes from peanuts!?
Others in captivity, for instance: Chimps Are No Chumps: Give Them An Oven, They’ll Learn To Cook
6·1 month agoIn Germany, it’s limited to more like 800 watts (and I think some other safety regulations). As I understand it, it’s generally worked without this being much of an issue despite millions of plug in solar installs (primarily for balcony solar)
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4·1 month agoIt’s still more chickens who still very much suffer a lot, just a little less in one specific way. It is not accurate at all to say that they don’t suffer while they are alive along with suffering while being killed. It potentially worsens a lot of issue by increasing numbers. From the earlier article
Our results indicate that, if raised in CAFOs, a shift to slower-growing Rangers may increase crowding and related welfare concerns including increased footpad dermatitis [7], jostling, conflicts and potentially infection risk [14], and thus may translate to a decrease in aggregate welfare at scale. A shift to individual better-welfare chicken breeds aims to lessen bone, heart and disease issues in present Ross birds, but even in non-CAFO production systems, slower-growing breeds may still experience other negative welfare conditions such as emotional and physical stress, disease, predation, injury and premature mortality, as well as distressing transport and slaughter practices
I am mixed about this. On the one hand fast-growing birds have tons of health issues and help to make the production cheaper which allows the industry to stay larger. On the other hand if consumption and production levels stays constant, the total number of chickens killed will increase. Slower growing chickens have lower slaughter weights which means you need more of them. From a study looking at the US:
Maintaining this level of consumption entirely with a slower-growing breed would require a 44.6%–86.8% larger population of chickens and a 19.2%–27.2% higher annual slaughter rate, relative to the current demographics of primarily ‘Ross 308’ chickens that are slaughtered at a rate of 9.25 billion per year.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.210478#d1e265
If dogs didn’t want to be eaten, why is Elwood’s Organic Dog Meat so delicious? /s