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The Guardian reports that according to a Bureau of Investigative Journalism study, colistin, an "antibiotic of last resort," is used by the tonnes by Indian farms to make the poultry gain weight a little bit faster. And all of this is perfectly legal. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls antibiotic resistance "a major threat to public health".
Another reason to eat less meat I guess. Like we needed one.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:15PM (6 children)
Personally, I'm interested in genetic studies that show that for some people, vegetarianism may be viable. That implies for other people, vegetarianism is not viable. This could be a way to reconcile the nutritional studies showing your claim that with the experiences of actual vegetarians who are successful at living without meat.
Dunno if DNA will have my back personally, but they can take my bacon++ from my cold, dead hands. Well, unless they give me vat-grown bacon++ that's indistinguishable from free-range, locally-sourced, organic, sustainable, uncured, gluten-free bacon++. I'm an apex predator, and I need me some bacon. Steak works too.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 02 2018, @08:34PM
I have yet to meat a Vegetarian or Vegan who had their canines removed.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @09:57PM (2 children)
From what I've read it's--surprise!--more viable for people who've been practicing it as a culture for thousands of years. Which would be mainly Indian people and those Asian populations who have a long history of Mahayana Buddhism. It doesn't seem very viable for Europeans and other Caucasian stock. I know I go completely nuts if I don't at least get eggs or cheese a few times a week.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:20AM (1 child)
So how long ago did you stop eating eggs and cheese?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:16AM
Tried flirting with veganism a couple of years ago. It...did not go well. You know those old Looney Tunes cartoons where Wile E. Coyote or someone else looks at another character and they phase out and reappear as some kind of meat item? I swear that was beginning to happen to me. I was having nightmares about cannibalizing my own family, who in the dreams had apparently demanded I do it because they thought I'd die otherwise.
Long story short, I am a filthy omnivore and probably never going to change it, though as soon as "vat meat" goes mainstream I won't eat anything from slaughtered animals any more. Vegetarianism *may* be do-able given the skills in Indian and Chinese food I've picked up since then, but definitely not veganism.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)
Do they make gluten enriched bacon now? I'm trying to think of how you'd get wheat into bacon so that "gluten free" is anything but a pandering market-imp noise.
(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:08AM
They probably lightly coat it in flour to stop it from sticking, much like some brands of frozen french fries and a lot of other stuff. That wax they put on apples, gluten based.
I was put on tetracycline for a year or so as a teenager to treat my acne. Ever since I've had weird guts and gluten (or perhaps it is one of the other proteins in various grains) is one of the foods I have to avoid to function in modern society where it is looked down on to just shit when you get the runs.