Almond Milk Is Even More Evil Than You Thought

New York Magazine ^ | JAN. 8, 2020 | Madeleine Aggeler

[foxfield]

Many of us chose to eat healthy-organic produce, free range meat, eggs, etc-I’m fortunate enough to live in a rural area...

Aggree 100%! To bad there aren't more like us.

Long ago I saw a post about a "Weston Price" ping list but I nothing like it recently. Do you know of any like-minded Freepers?

[Swordmaker]

Answering as a small time beekeeper.

My guess it would come down to couple of problems.

To many bees for the amount of pollen/Nectar available.

To much use of Insecticide in the fields.

Nature doesn’t kill the entire hive in response to a lack of nectar, it shrinks the bee populations of the hives. . . or they swarm and move the entire hive to where scout bees have found more food.

Incidentally, I did a little basic research and another assertion of the author of the article turns out to be not true. The claim that almond orchardists use more pesticides than any other agricultural crop is patently false. . . which is what I thought. They generally do a single spraying once per season, any more would be uneconomical. Apple and peach orchardists use far more, as do tomato growers. So the article drips ignorant assertions, which I suspect is based in funding likely sourced by the dairy industry.

[Swordmaker]

But I have lost many hives of bees here in Georgia on Blue berry farms,

That was another of the high pesticide use crops listed, blueberries. I didn’t see watermelons, though.

[steve86]

Aggree 100%! To bad there aren't more like us

Funny how the healthful food people (not 'healthy food') spell and use grammar so poorly.

[Yaelle]

The pesticides are killing the bees.

[PIF]

Argentinian beef, Canadian wheat and Ukrainian corn tastes just like ours.

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Yep, it is shipped all the way up here directly from their grocery stores, except they have different regulations (if any) about how the products are created in their back rooms, unlike ours which are heavily regulated to make sure the product looks just like the ones agriculture used to create in those filthy fields which are better used to grow housing developments, office buildings and shopping centers, and tax revenue.

[Concentrate]

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[central_va]

Most corn, about 90% of it, is NOT consumed by humans directly. It is feed for livestock, made into oil/sugars or made into fuel. So you know NOTHING.

[SERE_DOC]

"Maybe try out oat milk for a while instead?"

And now you know who sponsored this story.

Just not buying all the hype.

[Lakeshark]

Great idea.

Let’s put ourselves in a position of becoming dependent on other countries for our food.

That’s as good an idea as the Germans becoming dependent on Russia for their oil and gas.......

[central_va]

If Free Traitors™ tell me I shouldn't worry about where TVs, computers and a lot of our cars are made and imported from then why should I care about stupid ears of corn? It is lot easier to plant a fallow field than it is to build a factory FROM SCRATCH AND ALL THE JOBS THAT CREATES.

We are not an agrarian nation ( 1% of GDP ) .

The USA would be better off making everything and importing non subsidized ag products than the other way around.

[Lakeshark]

I could care less about what FreeTraitors can tell you.

Your idea is simply nuts. Null and Void made a great quip about it, and you should have known how off base you were being.

I tried to show you an easy parallel, and untenable, situation that ought to have given you pause.

But you persist.....

Good luck with that.

[central_va]

Good luck with GOP ever being a true populist majority party.

[Bailee]

Lack of Nectar or Pollen shrinks the hive population of adult bees. In this weakened state the hive is easily killed by Robbers or Small Hive Beetles.

[Lakeshark]

You steered this into really weird places, assuming really bizarre stuff.

Good luck, there’s not much more to be said, and I’d rather be absent from your craziness.

[central_va]

Free markets except for subsidized farmers.... /sarc

[central_va]

I will leave you with this, agriculture is so small and farmers so insignificant that it barely makes it as a slice of the GDP by industry pie chart shown below. My advice to mainstream GOPers, stop idealizing tractor monkeys and start listening more to US workers.

[Swordmaker]

Lack of Nectar or Pollen shrinks the hive population of adult bees. In this weakened state the hive is easily killed by Robbers or Small Hive Beetles.

That’s an argument I can grasp, but that’s not what these people are claiming. Nor is that what numerous studies are finding. It’s mites.

[Swordmaker]

Well, gee, Central, utilities are just as small, let’s eliminate them while you’re at it too, obviously they must be economically unnecessary, using your criteria . . . and mining is almost as small, toss it overboard as well, we can import all of our raw materials! Hell, those services industries at 2% are picayune, too. . . Toss ‘em! We can call plumbers, barbers, hairdressers, dry cleaners,laundries, mail delivery, and cable guys from Taiwan and India when we need ‘em, why not, it’s just a small fraction of the GDP, after all. We can just outsource it. Who needs it?

Frankly, as an economist, I question the accuracy of ANY pie chart that purports to represent the GDP distribution that subsumes healthcare in an mere 8% segment along with educational services and social services, separate from government, when we already know healthcare alone is actually over 20% of the economy . . . and social services are a far higher. Where are they hiding those?

[central_va]

So you completely miss the point. The GOP is oriented to appease 1% farming ( which is a front for big globalist corporations like Archer Daniels ) and pretty much ignores, or works against, the economic needs of over 50% of the population that works in manufacturing and other service industries.