Posted on 04/20/2025 7:27:31 AM PDT by Libloather
“Vegans are virtue-signaling idiots.”
In my personal experience, so are gays, lesbians, religious zealots and Trump haters! Had to spend yesterday with a number of them. Ugh!
Quite the Mixed Bag in my family. Double Ugh!
You know who was the only one that was QUIET about her World Views and didn’t shove them down the throats of others? Yep. Me.
(That’s what I have Free Republic for, LOL!)
I call it industrial food. Maybe that’s not original, I do not know.
Unless you grow it yourself, or shop form a local farmer where you know how they raise the the animals or grow the plants, you are getting food where they try to maximize the yield per acre, reduce spoilage, grow the livestock quickly, feed it cheaply, confine it, mass produced everything...
The assembly line and modern chemistry have done a lot of good, and there is a benefit for them in food production. But we have taken it to the point where we sacrifice quality (how healthy food is) by ONLY focusing on how it tastes, looks and cutting every cent possible in its production, storage, and logistics.
That said, all you’re doing is pretending that GMO food that is grown using fertilizers in depleted soil, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, homogenized, pasteurized and irradiated, that has been cooked and canned where many of the vitamins and minerals have been washed out, is somehow better than food where they feed the animals antibiotics, hormones, give them weird things to eat, don’t let them move around and keep them in the dark.
The only way to get away from “industrial food” is to avoid Cargill, Monsanto, Tyson, Frito Lay, Kraft, Nestle, Unilevel, PepsiCo, Danone, BASF, Archer Daniels, Bunge who produce EVERYTHING that you see in a main stream grocery store.
If you shop in a grocery store, the best you can hope for is something a little less bad, something mass produced and in a green package that is marketed to the health conscious, costs twice as much, but is still not of the highest quality (health and nutrition).
That’s just MHO
Have you noticed that vegans try to make their food look like meat?....
This may actually be a point of agreement.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58475-1#Sec5
NEW STUDY of 101 countries between 1961 to 2018 finds animal-based proteins increase survival in infants while plant-based proteins increase survival in adults, especially ages 30-70
Personally, I think there’s something wrong with vegans in general. We are not sheep or any other lower form animal that has the metabolism, physical activity and digestive system that supports a huge, sustained intake of plants.
You know that plants consume poop also.🤔
What Plants Don’t Like Manure?I think the best advice you could follow would be to never eat pig-poop-eating pigs, or pig-poop-eating vegetables, but, of course, you can eat whatever the hell you want to eat.
Wise Use of Manure in Home Vegetable Gardens
(Article says "According to several references, pig manure should not be used in a garden where edibles are grown. The same is true for dog, cat, and human waste due to the possible presence of parasites.")
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