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BamaD -> RE: Tales from the Edge (2/3/2015 2:53:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
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ORIGINAL: epiphiny43
I like the bumper sticker down the block, "Stopping animal cruelty, one meal at a time." It's all choices, most humans don't have the honesty to confront what happens in their name or interest. On the farm or in nations of different color. If it's packaged in plastic and in a refrigerator section, it has no past?
Defending milk isn't quite the slam dunk short attention span debaters seem to think. The majority of the human adult population is lactose intolerant and quite a lot of reasonably good science says cow milk in it's Pasteurized form is far from the health food the dairy industry pictures it as. Un-Pasteurized, of course, a small percentage die from it.
More to the point, quite exhaustive science has been done on the sustainability of various ways of feeding Homo Sapiens. Dairy and meat are traditional in European cultures. The planet can't actually maintain sufficient intact ecosystems to support even the present population if most if not all dairy and meat aren't removed as major food sources. If the militarily dominant Western nations think they can dictate to the rest of the world how they will eat and exploit their resources so we can keep eating off the top of the food chain as our ancestors did, a rethink may be in order. At best the US and EU will be partners with the larger nations on the planet, if not saying, "Yes, Sir", and "No, Sir" to China and India within living lifespans. Most thoughtful extrapolations of current trends have only the really wealthy eating meat or dairy regularly. How influential these groups are determines how well the larger underclass that works for a living eats, nutritionally adequate, if less traditional, or just eking out enough protein to sustain some semblance of an immune system.
Combined with how it's expected for climate change and ocean rise to diminish arable land area and productivity, human populations may shrink more dramatically than most of us would survive.
Given the bitching by other activists that goes on about the over-population of this planet, perhaps those against fairy and meat-eating diets should get together with the population worriers and do what they want...including not adding more of their kind to the population. Then, they can leave the rest of us to eat how we choose. I'm 60 in two weeks, get sick less than my brother, kids, nephews. I eat red meat, cheese, milk, ice cream, game, veggies, fruit. I drink moderately, I stay up later than I should and I exercise moderately. My grandfather ate worse than I did ...he loved greasy mutton...and smoked cigars. Lived to 102.
42 more years of you , good going.
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