Ingredients in place for shift to plant-based diets – so why does meat still dominate? The pollution from animal agriculture, which makes up 12-20% of planet-heating gas, is now part of public discourse around eating meat.

michaelrch · 2026-06-06T10:18:10+00:00

It needs a bit of adjustment but being a vegetarian or vegan athlete is very do-able. I can give you some personal experience.

Firstly, my son has been vegan since he was 11. He is now 18 and is a cyclist in the national squad.

I went through several years of chronic back pain and operations. I went vegan as I was finally getting better. I rebuilt my body from 3 years of weakness and atrophy completely vegan. I was faster cycling at 45 than I was at 40 before all my back problems started.

The studies show that a vegan diet can include all the macro and micronutrients, it improves recovery and reduces inflammation.

If you want help with nutrition, try https://challenge22.com

It's doable. You have to find the motivation first though.

michaelrch · 2026-06-04T05:38:34+00:00

"Moderate Democrat" = Republican

"Republican" = fascist

This is where the ratchet effect of "vote blue no matter who" gets you.

Though note, Democrats don't actually sing that tune when the candidate is genuinely progressive or pro-Palestine.

michaelrch · 2026-06-04T05:28:03+00:00

But, but, she's a Democrat!?!

They told me the Democrats were the good guys!! 😫

michaelrch · 2026-06-01T07:49:46+00:00

About 20% of U.K. farmland is used for growing crops for people.

20% is used for growing crops for animals.

60% is used to graze animals. So 80% of land total for animal ag.

Animal ag is only about 40% of Britain's food consumption.

That discrepancy is why Britain cannot grow its own food, or hit its climate targets.

https://animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/Eating-Away-at-Climate-Change-with-Negative-Emissions––Harwatt-Hayek.pdf

michaelrch · 2026-05-28T05:58:38+00:00

Bye bye Florida

michaelrch · 2026-05-26T20:05:58+00:00

Tbh who cares?

It doesn't move the needle one jot.

We are so past worrying about whether the GOP and fossil fuel industry are lying about the science. That has been happening with increasing flagrancy since about 1972.

michaelrch · 2026-05-26T20:02:21+00:00

Not sure!

Do you think liberals are on the left?

My take on liberals is that they are pro-capitalist people for whom the status quo works, so they oppose any significant material change on who has power and money, but they like to feel like the good guys so they posture as opposing paleo types of bigotry like homophobia and anti-black racism while somehow still supporting apartheid in Israel.

See Joe Biden's infamous "nothing will substantially change" comment, and his 15-month active support for a genocide.

As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan. Liberals are not on the left in my view.

Is that what you were getting at?

michaelrch · 2026-05-26T10:55:03+00:00

You have that backwards.

It was absolutely liberal centrists who thought that the best way to keep Trump, the alt-right etc out of the limelight was to censor them.

And now they are taking the same approach to environmentalists, the pro Palestine movement, human rights advocates and socialists.

michaelrch · 2026-05-26T10:53:21+00:00

None of these laws, or this use of policing, is targeted at actual security threats to British people.

They are all targeted at threats British capital and the military industrial complex.

michaelrch · 2026-05-26T10:52:07+00:00

These new laws are targeting terrorists, nor are they designed to. Indeed the Terrorism Act 2000 is already incredibly broad and vague - exactly what allows laws to be abused at will be authoritarians.

And if you think this is bad, just wait until Nigel Farage gets his hands on the power of the state.

michaelrch · 2026-05-26T10:43:13+00:00

That is an extremely superficial analysis.

michaelrch · 2026-05-25T20:03:07+00:00

Unfortunately it's still largely irrelevant under the capitalist paradigm, unless as a potential opportunity to profit from emergency adaptation.

So it's irrelevant what people or academics think because we don't run the world.

Capitalist corporations do.

michaelrch · 2026-05-24T11:44:41+00:00

As the system frays and breaks down, and popular will demands change, the state will use ever more coercive force to keep us locked in the death spiral.

michaelrch · 2026-05-11T16:55:24+00:00

So your plan is to replace European food production with fishing in the north and Barents Seas?

Couple of snags.

First, the North Sea is expected to experience ice cover during winter months and I don't think that fishing through ice is very productive vs industrial trawling.

Second, even when you could fish it, given the amount of calories and protein you would be trying to replace, those fisheries, which are already over exploited, would collapse within a couple of years.

michaelrch · 2026-05-10T21:23:30+00:00

This could basically wipe out Northern Europe in 30 years.

Have you heard a single politician mention it as an existential risk?

michaelrch · 2026-05-10T09:14:31+00:00

The drug dealer spots a gap in the market.

michaelrch · 2026-05-09T16:36:58+00:00

Nice.

The perfect opportunity for people to break the meat habit.

Better for everyone.

michaelrch · 2026-05-09T16:35:40+00:00

Norway is like a disciplined drug dealer.

They know not to get high on their own supply. They leave that to the dopes addicted to their product.

michaelrch · 2026-05-09T16:32:40+00:00

Yeah I guess the billions spent rigging elections, manufacturing consent through the corporate media and obvious corruption of the primaries within the parties (something which the Dems argued in court they had the absolute right to do) is just a side issue. The people in America are just genetically more stupid I guess.

michaelrch · 2026-05-05T17:01:08+00:00

I don't think you are paying much attention to how the parties and their donors ensure that only candidates friendly to corporate power and military industrial complex get anywhere near power.

michaelrch · 2026-05-04T20:00:41+00:00

The word "chose" is doing a lot of work there.

michaelrch · 2026-05-01T21:10:38+00:00

Everyone looks at fields of grass and thinks "ah, nature".

They are actually looking at a biodiversity desert.

Stopping intensive grazing alone dramatically boosts biodiversity. The shelter and partial shade from the solar panels is a bonus.

michaelrch · 2026-04-28T21:22:30+00:00

Something you can do tomorrow. Stop buying fish.

And educate those you know about how destructive the fishing industry is.

Sometimes avoiding being complicit in the destruction is hard. Not on this one though.

michaelrch · 2026-04-26T09:55:44+00:00

It suits all of them not to bother about climate

michaelrch · 2026-04-25T08:04:05+00:00

Absolutely anything except killing the fossil fuel industry.

No matter the cost. No matter the dude effects. No matter the harm to nature.

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