newman555

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by newman555 3y ago
well still better than both ruining the planet and health with animal based processed food.
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by newman555 4y ago
For B12? You do know that animals don’t produce B12, but microorganisms (that can be found in soil and untreated water) and that farmed animals eat B12 supplemented food? So no, people don’t need meat. Not for B12, or for proteins or for ir
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by newman555 4y ago
thanks for replying. and I like the quote :-)
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by newman555 4y ago
how frustrating it is for you to do what you do and know what you know? I only know the “common” knowledge about climate change and it makes me angry every time I think about what we know and where we’re still heading.
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by newman555 4y ago
and majority of that agriculture land is for animal agriculture (which is probably obvious to everyone by now)
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by newman555 4y ago
Have no idea why you get downvoted, but I did notice few times now how HN crowd doesn’t know much about veganism or appreciates people who think animal agriculture is cruel. Ah yeah, and also terribly destructive: https://youtu.b
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by newman555 4y ago
funny enough, was asking my self the same question yesterday after 5-minute googling didn’t get me anywhere. I see a recommendation mentioned below, but as I also saw, hard to find something where you can control signal to noise ratio
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by newman555 4y ago
“help endure climate change”, while beef and eating meat is one of the major contributors to climate change … This is wrong on so many levels.
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by newman555 5y ago
Zero harm is a myth for most things. But harm involved in producing cow’s milk (to animals, to environment) and plant based milk is HUGELY different. It sounds to me you want to make everything relative so that the conclusion is “everything
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by newman555 5y ago
I’m not looking for any high ground, I’m looking for decent ground. There’s no way you can compare the cruelty involved in producing cow milk to that of producing oat milk for example. It’s not in the same universe.
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by newman555 5y ago
once I switched there’s no way I’m ever going back to cow’s milk. Why? Health, much greater taste variety, no cruelty involved to make it, environmental benefits.
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by newman555 5y ago
“and justice for all”
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by newman555 5y ago
not again. I can’t go through 641st “nuclear vs solar/wind” thread on HN about :) Isn’t this an objective data driven problem and we can decide what’s better for short / medium / long term?
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by newman555 5y ago
I have to say I didn’t notice anyone saying anything positive or dismissing about the climate change on HN lately, it seems we generally agree that the problem is very real. Although it seems that when it comes to solutions - lots of discus
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by newman555 5y ago
but why?
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by newman555 5y ago
thank you!
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by newman555 5y ago
is there somewhere a summary of “basic science” problems that need to be solved to make fusion feasible? And - would throwing more money at the problem?
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by newman555 5y ago
I tried that (accept and move on), but when you have kids...I find it impossible. I can’t accept that fate for them. How do you reason about that?
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by newman555 5y ago
can’t they solve that problem with a bit of robotics and AI (i.e. unmanned defences)?
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by newman555 5y ago
still, I see no serious action being taken to tackle the climate crisis. Current governments are just putting some dates by which we’ll stop doing x or y, but in really almost nothing concrete is done to stop the worst scenarios.
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by newman555 5y ago
this is super positive of course, but I wonder - will it matter if we achieve it, but don’t stop the destruction of the environment caused by animal agriculture and fishing?
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by newman555 5y ago
ok so science is not there yet and it’s not a “money” problem.
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Ask HN: Why can't the fusion be to 2020s what moon landing was to 1960s?
1 points by newman555 5y ago|2 comments
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by newman555 5y ago
Really? For me switching process was long, but now that I’m vegan, I can’t tell you how much I enjoy the food I eat. Also, there was never an easier time to switch, so many substitutes (if you need them), so many great vegan restaurants (
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by newman555 6y ago
I’ve heard and read about all these initiatives that you and few others mentioned in your replies. However, (as per original question) I’m surprised we’re not investing much more resources into these. Again, super naive me - we put a lot
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by newman555 6y ago
Fusion energy and regenerative agriculture. Maybe I’m naive, but I see those 2 being unbelievable transformative for the world, significantly improving quality of life and preventing all those really bad climate change scenarios that seem a
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by newman555 7y ago
and this: https://youtu.be/wGt4XwBbCvA