Re: Obesity
Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 8:32 pm
If the weather is to blame, what are there so many fat people in California?
morepork wrote:Modern processed food is such utter shit that is bad for you in every way. It totally fucks with your body and your brain. People have been turned into cattle that know nothing about how bad the junk that gets pushed in their faces every day is. We missed the boat with reigning in the advertising, lobbying, and squashing academic input into the health question some time ago.
Apparently the future is insects for meat.Vengeful Glutton wrote:Also 30% of the earth's land mass is used for raising livestock.
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I have no objection to eating meat per se. There is an argument - even Genesis suggests that we were once vegetarians - usually posited by fanatical animal rights campaigners that killing any animal is wrong, but I don't agree; I'd feel no remorse if I killed an animal in the wild for food, because the animal is dying free, and in its natural environment. On the other hand livestock are no better than slaves, and for that and a few other reasons I stopped eating red/white meat. I thought I could never go full vegetarian either, but I've moved off fish too.Sandydragon wrote:Apparently the future is insects for meat.Vengeful Glutton wrote:Also 30% of the earth's land mass is used for raising livestock.
Worth reading:
Something to look forward to.
In all seriosuness. We can definitely afford to eat less meat, both from a production and a health perspective. I'm not advocating fully veggie as I couldn't do that myself, but reducing meat quanities isn't a bad starter for ten in reducing obesity.
Fair point.Sandydragon wrote:If the weather is to blame, what are there so many fat people in California?
There's also been a huge increase in the problem of obesity in Oz for a number of years now.Adder wrote:Fair point.Sandydragon wrote:If the weather is to blame, what are there so many fat people in California?
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Are you seriously suggesting that the christian bible is an historically accurate record of humankind's pre-historical dietary preferences?Vengeful Glutton wrote:I have no objection to eating meat per se. There is an argument - even Genesis suggests that we were once vegetarians - usually posited by fanatical animal rights campaigners that killing any animal is wrong, but I don't agree; I'd feel no remorse if I killed an animal in the wild for food, because the animal is dying free, and in its natural environment. On the other hand livestock are no better than slaves, and for that and a few other reasons I stopped eating red/white meat. I thought I could never go full vegetarian either, but I've moved off fish too.Sandydragon wrote:Apparently the future is insects for meat.Vengeful Glutton wrote:Also 30% of the earth's land mass is used for raising livestock.
Worth reading:
Something to look forward to.
In all seriosuness. We can definitely afford to eat less meat, both from a production and a health perspective. I'm not advocating fully veggie as I couldn't do that myself, but reducing meat quanities isn't a bad starter for ten in reducing obesity.
Fish mongers in my area invariably sell farmed fish, which as the insightful Mr Pork points out, is full of artificial crap.
Sources like the Bible, Odyssey, Aeneid etc... can be used to infer historical tidbits. If you couldn't then there'd be f*ck all sources available.Lizard wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that the christian bible is an historically accurate record of humankind's pre-historical dietary preferences?
Tidbits and generalities may be. But fuck all of the bible is factually accurate in detail (no Adam & Eve, no flood, no exodus, no Roman census in Judea etc etc) And on this particular issue there is direct archaeological evidence that early humans killed animals and butchered them for meat.zer0 wrote:Sources like the Bible, Odyssey, Aeneid etc... can be used to infer historical tidbits. If you couldn't then there'd be f*ck all sources available.Lizard wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that the christian bible is an historically accurate record of humankind's pre-historical dietary preferences?
Fair. But is it drilled into kids ruthlessly? Like in the same fashion as kids in NZ when it comes to exploiting overlaps?Donny osmond wrote:Not sure that its all down to education. Read an article about Shettleston in Glasgow, where life expectancy for men is, or used to be, below 60. They had heard all the advice about fruit and veg, stopping smoking, not eating so much processed food etc. They knew what they were doing was going to kill them... their perception was that they had so little else going for them in their lives that they may as well have a drink and a fag and eat what they wanted, as there was literally nothing else for them to get enjoyment from.
Thats a fair point and one I hadn't really considered (other than from a "fuck it it's too late" pov) but I don't see the 2 points as mutually exclusive.Donny osmond wrote:Not sure that its all down to education. Read an article about Shettleston in Glasgow, where life expectancy for men is, or used to be, below 60. They had heard all the advice about fruit and veg, stopping smoking, not eating so much processed food etc. They knew what they were doing was going to kill them... their perception was that they had so little else going for them in their lives that they may as well have a drink and a fag and eat what they wanted, as there was literally nothing else for them to get enjoyment from.
Len wrote:Its pretty easy. Stop eating shit. Education is key.
Morepork is also David Wolfe and I claim my cucumber.
Christian Bible? Genesis existed long before the Christians arrived on the scene. If memory serves, it's the first part of what Judaism refers to as תּוֹרָה. No?Lizard wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that the christian bible is an historically accurate record of humankind's pre-historical dietary preferences?Vengeful Glutton wrote:I have no objection to eating meat per se. There is an argument - even Genesis suggests that we were once vegetarians - usually posited by fanatical animal rights campaigners that killing any animal is wrong, but I don't agree; I'd feel no remorse if I killed an animal in the wild for food, because the animal is dying free, and in its natural environment. On the other hand livestock are no better than slaves, and for that and a few other reasons I stopped eating red/white meat. I thought I could never go full vegetarian either, but I've moved off fish too.Sandydragon wrote: Apparently the future is insects for meat.
Something to look forward to.
In all seriosuness. We can definitely afford to eat less meat, both from a production and a health perspective. I'm not advocating fully veggie as I couldn't do that myself, but reducing meat quanities isn't a bad starter for ten in reducing obesity.
Fish mongers in my area invariably sell farmed fish, which as the insightful Mr Pork points out, is full of artificial crap.
You ok?Lizard wrote:Tidbits and generalities may be. But fuck all of the bible is factually accurate in detail (no Adam & Eve, no flood, no exodus, no Roman census in Judea etc etc) And on this particular issue there is direct archaeological evidence that early humans killed animals and butchered them for meat.zer0 wrote:Sources like the Bible, Odyssey, Aeneid etc... can be used to infer historical tidbits. If you couldn't then there'd be f*ck all sources available.Lizard wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that the christian bible is an historically accurate record of humankind's pre-historical dietary preferences?
Aside from Plato's symposium, there's no evidence that Socrates existed (and engaged in pederasty), yet most people accept that he existed.zer0 wrote:Sources like the Bible, Odyssey, Aeneid etc... can be used to infer historical tidbits. If you couldn't then there'd be f*ck all sources available.Lizard wrote:Are you seriously suggesting that the christian bible is an historically accurate record of humankind's pre-historical dietary preferences?
Nothing worse than well done human. I only tend to eat vegetarians though. (Len, insert joke about spit roasting here)Vengeful Glutton wrote:Lizard wrote:Tidbits and generalities may be. But fuck all of the bible is factually accurate in detail (no Adam & Eve, no flood, no exodus, no Roman census in Judea etc etc) And on this particular issue there is direct archaeological evidence that early humans killed animals and butchered them for meat.zer0 wrote:
Sources like the Bible, Odyssey, Aeneid etc... can be used to infer historical tidbits. If you couldn't then there'd be f*ck all sources available.
(There's also evidence that humans engaged in cannibalism. But it was probably very rare.)
No worries my friend.Lizard wrote:No nerves touched, I just like to call out religious nonsense when I see it, even if it's simply a modest cultural reference.
You should have seen my mother in law's face when I referred to the Ark she bought my kids as an "Evolution Boat."
You're wasted on d'interwebs.cashead wrote:Considering that you've made three effort posts responding to the guy, basically on the same topic, it's pretty clear that between the two of you, Liz isn't the one that's had a nerve touched.Vengeful Glutton wrote:You ok?Lizard wrote: Tidbits and generalities may be. But fuck all of the bible is factually accurate in detail (no Adam & Eve, no flood, no exodus, no Roman census in Judea etc etc) And on this particular issue there is direct archaeological evidence that early humans killed animals and butchered them for meat.
How early you want to go back? There's no doubt that at some point in our history humans began to eat meat. However, there is no conclusive evidence establishing a date. Arguing the historical merits of an implication in Genesis, versus scientific theories is, in this context quite pointless. It appears to have touched a nerve. For touching that nerve I apologise. I didn't intend to offend. An off the cuff remark if you like. Friends?
(There's also evidence that humans engaged in cannibalism. But it was probably very rare.)
The narrators of Genesis don't claim that it's all history (just like they don't claim that the Torah was divinely written, or that YHWH was omniscient). It's possible you're confusing that with later Theological constructs, hence your reference to the "Christian" Bible?
The historicity of the exodus is still disputed.
Also, that's bullshit, mate.
No worries taken, but indulge me one more time...Vengeful Glutton wrote:No worries my friend.Lizard wrote:No nerves touched, I just like to call out religious nonsense when I see it, even if it's simply a modest cultural reference.
You should have seen my mother in law's face when I referred to the Ark she bought my kids as an "Evolution Boat."
We're all God's childr.....oops.
You appear to be indulging yourself!Lizard wrote:No worries taken, but indulge me one more time...Vengeful Glutton wrote:No worries my friend.Lizard wrote:No nerves touched, I just like to call out religious nonsense when I see it, even if it's simply a modest cultural reference.
You should have seen my mother in law's face when I referred to the Ark she bought my kids as an "Evolution Boat."
We're all God's childr.....oops.
<militant atheism>God's bloody children, eh. Don't get me started on the illogicality of claiming Jebus as god's only begotten son but also being somehow a descendant (through 2 inconsistent genealogies) of the (probably mythical) King David through the cuckold stepfather's line. </militant atheism>