Patrick Heizer
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Biomedical engineer by day, permaculture farmer by night, father and husband always.
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In Oct 2021, my wife & I started a permaculture farm in Maryland. This is our 2nd annual report.
Truly thankful to everyone on Twitter that has supported us.
I'd be extra appreciative of likes/RTs/comments. Spread the power of small, local agriculture!
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I am a scientist at a major pharmaceutical company. Chemistry was one of my majors. I fully know and understand the benefits of synthetic chemicals.
Almost every time I see someone's garage/farm, I am astonished by the array, amounts, and profligate use of synthetic chemicals.
Counterpoint: my rural neighbors spray down the creek with poison every year.
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@Eric_Erins
More economic precarity and inequality, corporate and political oligarchy, most expensive healthcare in the developed world, lack of robust public transportation, multiple factors that enhance alienation while corroding communities
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@StarTribune
Perhaps you should mention all the children benefitting, rather than the "costs"
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The university system in America is one of our greatest strengths. Our universities are literally unparalleled, in the strongest possible sense.
There are dozens of random state schools with more Nobel Prizes than most OECD countries.
one of the most stirringly patriotic things I've ever read about america was by tony judt, a brit, and about our land-grant universities
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In a proper food system, this would cost twice as much.
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How very sad we took American Prairie, one of the most unique, diverse, and productive ecosystems on the planet, and turned it into chemical-drenched, fossil-fuel burning, mindless-monocrop corn/soy rotation.
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@BFriedmanDC
The frustrating part is that we know how to slow, capture, & channel water across a landscape, while increasing the land's water retention capacity.
We simply need the will for widespread implementation.
Would it prevent all flooding? Of course not. But inches can save lives.
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Yet out in the "real world," there is very little regulation, and essentially zero enforcement or consequence.
You can buy hundreds of synthetic chemicals, keep them in a hot garage or barn, and spray or spread them pretty much at will, wherever you want, whenever you want.
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@IntractableLion
We've all been patiently waiting for you to develop and post the 4-D Apple Taste Tesseract chart.
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Sadly, this is exactly how it's meant to work, because of ideological worship to small government & big business, our laws are written so chemical manufacturers don't really have to prove safety.
Rather, underfunded regulators have to prove harm.
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I spend my days working with hundreds of chemicals & biological entities.
There is a huge amount of time & effort spent in their proper storage, handling, & disposal.
Which things need to be stored separately, what PPE should be worn, how class needs to be disposed of.
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@goodfriendraf
How it is actually being deployed is to allow older people with terminal diseases to die with a dignity of their choosing.
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@cafreiman
This is pure economist spreadsheet brain.
Regular people value fairness and transparency over profit maximization.
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How I'm converting standard industrial cropland into a regenerative chestnut silvopasture system, a thread:
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@jeremykauffman
New business applications spiked higher and have maintained since the pandemic.
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Herbicide manufacturers are fully allowed to annually poison almost every single tree in agricultural areas.
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I knew it'd be sadomasochistic, but when I saw this week's All-In podcast discussed lab-grown meat, I decided to listen.
It's one of the premier examples of reductionist, "spreadsheet brain" thinking that I've ever encountered.
I will explain why:
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"They only target the organisms they're designed against," they claim.
Yeah, herbicides won't acutely kill a mammal (unless gross exposure).
But there is a large body of evidence that long-term, low-dose exposure does cause harm to humans and other mammals.
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@baddestmamajama
The average person does not have a 40% chance of developing Long COVID, even with three infections.
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And it's not just cancer.
Do you really think the chemicals designed to shred the nervous system of insects, won't have any effect whatsoever on mammals?
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@StatisticUrban
Being overweight negatively affects multiple organ systems. It is not surprising that significant weight loss improves multiple health conditions.
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I am eating Indian food for the first time (major oversight, I know) and I am shook to the core.
This is even better than all the hype.
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My grandfather died yesterday.
He was a quintessential example of how the most extraordinary lives are often the perfectly ordinary ones.
Born on a farm in rural Oklahoma, he enrolled in the ROTC program at Oklahoma St. While stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, he met a girl that
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Saying "thank you" is good and we should all do it more.
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The American economy has:
-the fastest growth in the G7
-the lowest inflation in the G7
-unemployment near 50 year lows
-labor for participation rates near 25 year highs
-GDP currently growing at >5%
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@Leigh_Phillips
One, this is false equivalency as people will die without healthcare, while life without generative AI is quite fine.
Second, yes, there are a lot of ways we could smartly reduce healthcare emissions. E.g. if we reduced the obesity rate by half, that would be tons of GHGs saved
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We pollute our waters with so much fertilizer and manure that cities have to spend tens of millions of dollars to supply clean drinking water for citizens.
Think about that next time you go fishing with your kids.
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@uncledoomer
Similar phenomenon: used furniture places within ~50 miles of DC have great deals on high end office furniture after Congressional elections.
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And I assure you, these tens of millions of dollars are the least of your concern.
Total remediation of PFAS compounds has been estimated to be in the trillions (with a T) annually (as in every year) for decades (as in the rest of our lives).
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The most ethical and sustainable agriculture requires consumption of animals and their products.
I'll explain:
How is veganism not more popular among philosophers? I realise philosophers are disproportionately vegan, but still, only around 25% is so low, especially considering there isn't a single good objection to veganism.
Yeah, I said it. All the objections stink.
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@ronrule
Social Security is the most effective anti-poverty program in the history of America.
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@leyawn
The Redwall books were one of the most impactful books of my childhood, shaping my views on life, friendship, values, and, importantly, good food.
Can't wait until my farm can produce its own candied chestnuts.
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I would pay $3500 to have a night like this with my newborn daughter again, except without the headset.
Dad mode: Already found a great application of the
#VisionPro
, watching Avatar: The way of water while my daughter sleeps on me. I eventually adjusted the angle of the virtual screen so that I could easily recline and rest my head/neck. This feels like one of the premium
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NOAA continues to be a shining example of an excellent government agency which directly improves our lives, for which it gets shockingly little credit.
Kudos to National Hurricane Center for nailing the forecast of Milton. They have been unwavering about the track to just south of Tampa since it became a depression on Saturday.
There used to be deserved skepticism about NHC forecasts. There was an official track but a wide
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And guess what, we live in the age of the short-term, Tiktok videos and two-year election cycles.
These are long-term risks whose exact impacts are hard to pin down. That's a mountain of money for very little "visible" reward.
So ultimately, ~nothing will be done.
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@General_JWJ
The proper use is as shade structures for animals or shade-tolerant plants.
Just a few miles from me is a farm that is with great examples of smartly-integrated agrovoltaics: mounted solar panels that serve as shade for cattle.
They also have panels on the south side of all major barns.
We don't have to turn prime farmland into solar fields.
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Our Immune Systems Weren't Damaged by COVID-19
Despite many claims of widespread immune damage following SARS-CoV-2 infection, there is no epidemiology that supports this claim. These theories result from confusing scientific and clinical findings.
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@MrRBourne
Happy hour is a pre-announced and regular cadence change in pricing that applies to everyone, and is not relevant to many of the potential abuses of moment-to-moment algorithmic dynamic pricing.
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@sfchronicle
I would love to see a Venn diagram of people that think crime is a major problem and people that are upset about this proposed law.
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I'd bet good money that future generations will look back on our decision to annually spray tens of millions of acres with tens of millions of tons of untested fertilizers and pesticides and herbicides and fungicides and whatever else with nothing but shock and horror.
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The first antibiotic was discovered in 1928.
Less than 100 years ago.
We've used them with so much profligacy and recklessness that today, antibiotic resistant microorganisms are one of the main problems facing the global medical community.
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These companies will continue to profit from poisoning our soil, water, air, & bodies.
Even with occasional enforcement, they'll skirt most consequences, maybe pay a small fine, the links aren't firm enough, they'll tweak the formula/compounds just enough to start selling again
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The Bosch-Haber process, which allows for synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, was invented during WWI.
Barely over 100 years ago.
We've used them with so much profligacy and recklessness, that now we get annual dead zones in our most precious watersheds.
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People have no sense of deep time or long-term effects with this stuff. We're simply not evolved to have that level of empathy on that timescale.
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I want to live and raise my family in a healthy, clean, & functional environment with nutritious & safe food.
I'm sure that you want that too.
So why do we let these chemical companies profit billions from polluting and poisoning our home, our Earth?
We shouldn't.
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Nobel Prizes:
University of Illinois: 30
University of Minnesota: 30
UCSD: 27
University of Michigan: 26
University of Wisconsin: 26
UCLA: 25
Russia: 30
Japan: 29
Canada: 27
Switzerland: 25
Austria: 25
Netherlands: 22
Italy: 21
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@OrganizerMemes
I genuinely love to hear the stories of how people ended up in America, whether it was pre-1776 or yesterday. We should be proud that this is a place that people want to come to, but more importantly, that anyone can become American.
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@zachp_25
It's probably the most underappreciated tail event.
GOP won Texas in 2004 by ~1.6 million votes.
In 2020, they won by ~600,000 votes.
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We took a diverse and self-regulated ecosystem, and turned it into a sterile petri dish, optimized for one and one think only, caloric production.
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This is why I hold myself fully accountable and publish every single chemical that I use on my farm in Blue Glade Farm's annual report.
You can see for yourself what chemicals I've used, on which plants, and why I used them.
Full transparency.
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@DrJesseMorse
The Ohtani deal is a terrible financial decision. Deferring $680M by a decade+ isn't worth avoiding CA state taxes. You're radically underestimating what an entire decade of compounding is worth.
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@numfuksteinstan
It gets closer and closer every cycle.
Texas going blue is probably the most underappreciated tail political event.
The GOP won Texas in 2004 by ~1.6 million votes. In 2020, they won it by ~600,000 votes.
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@cafreiman
Almost all pharmaceuticals are reliant on and developed from basic research that was funded by the government and done at universities.
This specific example, Ozempic, was developed by a Danish company that is majority owned by a philanthropic foundation.
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@SMB_Attorney
Weak men complain about property taxes.
Strong men support their community and pay their property taxes.
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@Rainmaker1973
@mathurgaurav
Another example of this is that auxins (a major class of plant signaling hormones) and serotonin (a major neurotransmitter) are other substituted indoles.
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Just a few miles from me is a farm that is with great examples of smartly-integrated agrovoltaics: mounted solar panels that serve as shade for cattle.
They also have panels on the south side of all major barns.
We don't have to turn prime farmland into solar fields.
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You can go check for yourselves, but I promise it isn't much.
And the chemicals I do use, you'd probably be comfortable to be around.
Epsom salt, elemental sulfur, essential oils (darn voles), Dr. Earth's organic fertilizer. Etc.
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We should be restoring the Midwest into American prairie and oak/chestnut/hickory savannah, with herds rotating of bison and other livestock.
Instead, we are turning the best soils in the world into a solar panel parking lot.
As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk
The solar industry is pushing into the U.S. Midwest, drawn by cheaper land rents, access to electric transmission, and a wealth of federal and state incentives. The region also has what solar needs:
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@samosaur
Absurd that you're mad at the military and it's policy rather than the driver that killed a person in a hit & run.
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@GayBearRes
Tip from someone who works at one of the 50th largest corporations in the world:
You can just skip meetings and do actual work.
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Synthetic protein and food will always have more real, biophysical costs than ecologically-raised food.
A worldwide network of industrial-scale cell culture factors will never be thermodynamically competitive with agroecology.
A thread:
Did you know? Producing 1kg of Solein takes 1% of the water and 5% of the arable land that growing 1kg of plant protein does. What’s more, Solein creates just 20% of plant protein’s CO2 emissions. Learn more:
#foodofthefuture
#outofthinair
#NextGenEU
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Thoughts from the first ~10 days of fatherhood:
-I love her so much
-Diapers aren't that bad
-How do they sleep so much yet I sleep so little?
-My reading has increased
-Utterly absurd that the US doesn't have national paid parental leave
-I love her so damn much
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@LizzMurr56
If what happened in Uvalde happened to my family, I would have zero problem bankrupting absolutely everyone involved, with zero remorse.
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But a tank of cells filled with lots of glucose and growth factors is the *perfect* place for bacterial & fungal contamination.
To maintain food-grade sterility in the tank of cells, you have to use vast amounts of chemicals (antibiotics) and/or energy (heat, filtration).
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@riley_sides
In every other industry, it's understood that cheap is synonymous with low-quality.
But when it comes to food, suddenly everyone's brains break.
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@HoodBiology
The entire alcohol industry is struggling. Look at LVMH's sales of wine and spirits compared to its other luxury segments.
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Antibiotics, heat, and filters don't come out of nowhere. They require a large industrial complex to support.
Meanwhile, your chicken's immune system is 'free' in the sense that it comes with the animal.
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@JordanHedberg
People vastly underestimate the inputs required to finish a steer prime, even with an industrial, subsidized, corn-fed feedlot.
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Truly comical the amount of comments that are like "I'll never get a Real ID. I'll just use my passport."
BREAKING: The US government plans to launch heavily criticized federal ID program, Real ID, for domestic air travel on May 7, 2025, banning all adults from domestic flights unless they have replaced traditional state-issued IDs with Real IDs, raising significant concerns about
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Bird excrement is an excellent fertilizer, containing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the 'big three' elements needed for plant growth.
The history of the massive demand for bird excrement is told in numerous books such as The Alchemy of Air, which is a history of nitrogen.
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This disregard for the biophysical accounting is also evident in that they believe protein production is the only thing chickens are good for.
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It's almost as if the current agricultural system is unsustainable and large-scale changes in our production systems and resource management are needed.
This is an extremely skewed viewpoint. These farmers have had 15 years to address their over pumping of the aquifer and instead, they’ve carried on with aquifer depletion which is damaging to surface water users who own higher priority (earlier) water rights.
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@whstancil
University of Minnesota has more Nobel Prizes than most developed countries.
Nobel Prizes:
University of Illinois: 30
University of Minnesota: 30
UCSD: 27
University of Michigan: 26
University of Wisconsin: 26
UCLA: 25
Russia: 30
Japan: 29
Canada: 27
Switzerland: 25
Austria: 25
Netherlands: 22
Italy: 21
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@Leigh_Phillips
AlphaFold is a machine learning algorithm, not generative AI.
I work for a company that has made significant investments in "AI" healthcare. For now, it is a fraction of a marginal technology with, granted, lots of promise.
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The chicken using protein to maintain sterility necessarily lowers its relative edible protein production, not because cells aren't sterile, but only because you've shifted the cost or sterility onto the chemical and energetic balance sheet.
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@sock_dem
Tell me you don't understand ecology without telling me you don't understand ecology.
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@alex_orlov_
Also, if you did want to reduce/eliminate a machine for degrowth, it'd be the dryer, not the washing machine.
This is a prime example of degrowthers "poisoning the well" with incredibly dumb ideas that will never convince anyone.
Manually washing clothes is ~1000x the work of drying them, but your washing machine uses ~1/10th the energy of your dryer.
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Always interesting how no one has ever actually rebutted the numbers in the thread.
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But because we destroyed the diversity and self-regualtion, now we have to perform those regulatory functions, and create tons of emissions and biophysical costs.
We have to spray insecticides because we destroyed all the swallow habitat.
Almost 11 years ago we moved to this sesquicentennial midwestern family farm of my children’s great great great great grandparents. For decades a corn and beans farm, we lived here for 5 years seeing what that did
For 6 years all 300 acres have been organic, with the row crops
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This is a prime example of degrowthers "poisoning the well" with incredibly dumb ideas that will never convince anyone.
Manually washing clothes is ~1000x the work of drying them, but your washing machine uses ~1/10th the energy of your dryer.
Washing clothes by hand is a chore, oftentimes a lonely one. But it needn’t be. We could have communal washing facilities in each neighborhood where people can plan to come in groups to do their laundry together...
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May 8th: this is what local corn fields look like.
My pasture has been fully green since early March. The rye is ~5ft tall. Rows of chestnuts started. Soon cattle will graze.
Which system uses fossil fuels to produce cheap calories?
Which minimizes inputs while producing true
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@matthiasellis
Very beautiful indeed. We enjoy it all except for when the truck right in front of us lost control and almost went over the edge. Fortunately, I had time to react.
We all made way for an 18-wheeler who pulled him out the wedge with the median.
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@laurenbalik
Many more pensions need to invest like the Nevada Public Employee Pension: essentially all index funds and treasuries, with minimal operational staff, because it's so simple.
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@mikex163
@StatisticUrban
Guess you didn't read the paper, "Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes **in Obesity** without Diabetes."
The semaglutide group lost 10% of their body weight, on average.
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@BoulwareH2
That was not the price of a gallon of milk in 2020, or any year in the last thirty years.
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@IntractableLion
I stand in awe and respect at the qualia you experience with apples.
When I bite an apple my experience isn't much more complex than either tasty or not tasty. My taste receptors are indeed little babies. It's a simple life.
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Reminder: the problem with lab-grown meat is that it's biophysically and energetically inefficient, an industrial shell-game enabled by fossil fuels.
Industrial lab-grown meat is not a solution to industrial CAFOs.
We must restore native ecosystems and steward them.
I knew it'd be sadomasochistic, but when I saw this week's All-In podcast discussed lab-grown meat, I decided to listen.
It's one of the premier examples of reductionist, "spreadsheet brain" thinking that I've ever encountered.
I will explain why:
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@majordouzie
Worth it. We were going to use these as the name 'cards' at our wedding.
Cancelled by COVID, so we're just slowly using them around the house.
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@SillyOldPops
Sequesters carbon from atmosphere, cycles other nutrients, provides wildlife habitat, grows food and fiber for humanity, creates soil, holds and filters water, produces natural products ranging from wood to medicine, is beautiful, etc.
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We have a maniacal focus on yield (get big or get out! fencerow to fencerow!) rather than on nutritional quality
We produce more low quality commodity crops rather than a range of nutrient dense real foods
Cells might out yield living animals but they will never beat on quality
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