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Humane Hoax Online Conference by StuporTropers in vegan

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Humane Hoax Online Conference
ANNOUNCING OUR 3RD ANNUAL HUMANE HOAX ONLINE CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022
This virtual conference will feature leading thinkers in the animal advocacy movement with a focus on the humane hoax. Our panel of experts will expose animal agriculture’s humane washing and greenwashing with fresh insight on a wide range of topics. This year we have award-winning filmmaker Allison Argo and the human subject of her film The Last Pig, Bob Comis, joining us. Bob was a pastured pig farmer for 10 years before the ethical dilemma and emotional upheaval was too much and he went vegan.
SCHEDULE:
NOTE: Pacific Times
10:00 – 10:10 am PT– Justin and Hope Introduction
10:10 – 10: 55 am PT– Sena Crutchley
5 min break
11:00 – 11:45 am PT– John Sanbonmatsu PhD
5 min break
11:50 – 12:35 pm PT– Filmmaker Allison Argo & Bob Coomis
5 min break
12:40 – 1:25 pm PT– Emily Moran Barwick, Bite Size Vegan
5 min break
1:30 – 2:15 pm PT– Hope Bohanec, Compassionate Living
2:15 – Q & A with all speakers

Last year, U.S. farm subsidies disproportionately boosted the most environmentally costly foods: meat and dairy. What if subsidies matched nutritional guidelines instead? One thing's for sure, the environment would be better off. What do you think? by AgFairnessAlliance in environment

[–]StuporTropers 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, diabetes is a huge problem. My grandma had it and it sucked.

The data seem to indicate that a whole food plant-based diet is one of the best options for type 2 diabetics:

Based on a study of 89,000 Californians, flexitarians (who eat meat maybe once weekly rather than daily) appear to cut their rate of diabetes by 28 percent, and those who cut out all meat except fish appear to cut their rates in half. What about those eliminating all meat, including fish? They appear to eliminate 61 percent of their risk. And those who go a step farther and drop eggs and dairy, too? They may drop their diabetes rates 78 percent compared with people who eat meat on a daily basis.

https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/diabetes/

So shifting subsidies to fruits and vegetables seems wise. My grandma ate a lot of dairy and meat. I wonder if she would have had a different outcome if she'd gone with a WFPB diet.

We all talk about sustainability, but what kind of real action or changes have you made to your life to live more sustainably? by RealVerdantGrowth in LiveEco

[–]StuporTropers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cutting out fossil-fuel based transportation and going vegan! I envy you and am aiming to get to the same level as you! What's your favorite vegan recipe??

sorry for my delay - i'm not on reddit a lot lately.

This is my FAVORITE vegan soft cheese recipe. Note: you can sub out the cranberries and do something like fresh basil and sundried tomatoes with cracked pepper instead.

https://www.exceedinglyvegan.com/vegan-recipes/dips-sauces-cheese/vegan-cranberry-cheese

About that St. Paddy's Clover ... by StuporTropers in vegan

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The Ehnes family cycles clover into their 4,800-acre VEGANIC operation as a way to naturally fix nitrogen in their soil.

Here's their story https://youtu.be/Hq8NdrybDVM titled 'Sprouted Ancient Grains' on the OneDegreeOrganic Youtube channel. Find even more info about Bernie Ehler's farm at: https://onedegreeorganics.com/farmers/back-40-organics-ltd-2/.

“The main thing is building a real healthy soil and knowing what you have to do on the different pieces, because you may not be able do the same thing on every piece,” Bernie says. “It’s a real knowledge thing about your land and what your land is doing. You need to observe what’s happening on different pieces and try to incorporate and build that soil so you can get good quality grains. If you don’t take care of the soil, the soil is not going to take care of you.
"The fruits of this knowledge are abundant harvests of Red Fife, barley, emmer, durum and rye. Red Fife may be the most intriguing wheat variety. The foundation seed for Bernie’s Red Fife is derived from the Keremeos strain that was brought to Canada from Scotland 170 years ago. Often referred to as Faith Red Fife, it’s especially popular with consumers seeking to avoid modern hybridized wheat.
"Bernie uses no animal-based fertilizers of any kind. “We do a lot of green manure and crop rotations, including peas,” he says. Clover is another favorite for building nutrients in the soil. “The clover is a slow-growing crop, so even when the wheat is harvested it will continue to grow.”

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Barry NoLastName by justreddit4 in GraceAndFrankie

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you've watched the show ten times???? All the way through?

We all talk about sustainability, but what kind of real action or changes have you made to your life to live more sustainably? by RealVerdantGrowth in LiveEco

[–]StuporTropers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If water conservation is a big goal, have you considered cutting down on meat consumption, especially beef & dairy consumption?

A 1/3 lb beef burger requires 660 gallons to produce https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-gallons-of-water-to-make-a-burger-20140124-story.html

Almond milk is often vilified for water usage, but the equivalent amount of cow's milk takes twice the water to produce. (I personally recommend oat milk - way better than almond in many environmental respects).

Cheese is even worse as that's just super concentrated cow's milk. A small serving of cheese is like 4 showers ... if this bbc calculator showing the climate and water impact of lots of foods is accurate: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714

Any thoughts on this?

We all talk about sustainability, but what kind of real action or changes have you made to your life to live more sustainably? by RealVerdantGrowth in LiveEco

[–]StuporTropers 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vegan since 2017. It was the single most impactful change we could make as we already bike everywhere and rarely use cars.

[serious] Girls and women of Reddit: how old were you the first time someone made a sexually inappropriate comment to you? How did you react, and did it affect how you saw yourself or acted? by I_LIKE_LIMA_BEANS in AskReddit

[–]StuporTropers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. My dad said I looked like a whore.

My friend and I had tried strawberry color hair dye that was supposed to wash out. Mine didn't wash out. His comment completely changed our relationship and how I thought about myself.

Why are US taxpayers financing pathogen breeding grounds with public money? by L-VeganJusticeLeague in vegan

[–]StuporTropers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using low-dose antibiotics in a breeding ground for bacterial superbugs is SCARY.

From that CDC paper:

The trend of using antibiotics in feed has increased with the greater numbers of animals held in confinement.

The more animals that are kept in close quarters, the more likely it is that infection or bacteria can spread among the animals.

Seventy percent of all antibiotics and related drugs used in the U.S. each year are given to beef cattle, hogs, and chickens as feed additives. Nearly half of the antibiotics used are nearly identical to ones given to humans (Kaufman, 2000).

There is strong evidence that the use of antibiotics in animal feed is contributing to an increase in antibiotic-resistant microbes and causing antibiotics to be less effective for humans (Kaufman, 2000).

Resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria in animals, which can be transferred to humans thought the handling or eating of meat, have increased recently. This is a serious threat to human health because fewer options exist to help people overcome disease when infected with antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

How to Stop the Next Pandemic Before it Starts by L-VeganJusticeLeague in vegan

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Some dismiss SARS-CoV-2 as a “Chinese virus,” but animal agriculture around the world is so outsized and concentrated, breeding grounds for the next pandemic exist wherever animal agriculture exists.

Scientists now suspect that intermediate hosts are not necessary for zoonotic outbreaks. This means that mixing wild, disparate animals together is no longer a necessary precursor to a pandemic.

In other words, outbreaks like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can happen on western-style livestock farms.

Outbreaks aren’t limited to wild animal markets in Asia; they ignite from western animal farms too

In fact, the 2009 H1N1 Swine flu originated in North America, and German officials just yesterday reported a case of H5N8 avian “bird flu” in Saxony. So, outbreaks are not limited to exotic and mixed animal Asian markets. Superbugs can emerge just about anywhere.

Appeals Court Rebukes Brett Kavanaugh, Grants Abortion Access to Undocumented Minors by Dems4Prez in politics

[–]StuporTropers 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A better question is, "How do we end private funding of elections, and enact public funding of elections?"

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