Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - David Robinson Simon

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  lisiva5995
  December 21st, 2021
  

  

  Sigh… No one is holding a gun to anyone’s head and forcing them to eat or drink anything. Stop blaming others and have some self-control.

  Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - David Robinson Simon
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  AudioBookBay12311
  December 21st, 2021
  

  @lisiva5995 Unless continuous advertisements play, which I guess you could say significantly influences your decisions.

  It’s also worthwhile to pay attention to the externalized costs, as that is a major point of the book. The massive subsidies, the environmental costs, the antibiotic resistant bacteria that is developing due to abuse of antibiotics in factory farms (because the conditions are so horrible, one can’t stay alive without them), which adds significant cost. As well as the continuous development of pandemic potential strains of viruses, such as influenza (because factory farms are one of the most ideal environments for that). Influenza outbreaks are always a massive risk. This imposes tens of billions in costs. In 1918, an influenza outbreak (hybrid virus from pigs and chickens from western countries) killed 50 million people, and made hundreds of millions ill. These events are massive costs that are externalized. The UN says zoonotic diseases kill about 2 million people per year. The 2009 swine flu killed about 300k, and made many more sick. These are continuous events, continuous externalized costs. There are also other costs which are not considered, which come at the expense of the employees. Those who work in factory farms and slaughterhouses. Such environments are laden with viruses and bacteria, which also significantly increase their cancer and diabetes rates (several viruses that are responsible has been identified). More externalized costs. They’re also stressful environments. Slaughterhouse workers have a high mental costs from such jobs. They have increased PTSD rates and are more likely to commit crimes (other manufacturing jobs have the complete opposite effect). If you kill animals all day every day, as you can imagine the lines become very thin.

  Hence, these aren’t simple decisions. These effect everyone, including those who do not contribute to this. And do not forget to consider the one that gets chopped up. The one that was brought into this world, and dependent on which species, had their bodies mutilated (beaks sliced for chickens with no anesthetic, horns for cow with no anesthetic, balls ripped of for pig as well, and teeth, with no anesthetic), shoved inside a tiny space for their whole lives, fattened up, and then transported and chopped up into pieces (they’re so scared by the end of it, they won’t even get off the trucks, which is where the slaughterhouse workers use force). Or if they are female, they are forced to reproduce by having semen showed into them, and once the baby is born, they’re taken away almost immediately. This is by far the most unethical practice that humans partake in, and almost nobody wants to pay even a minutes worth of attention to this topic.

  Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - David Robinson Simon
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  RashidMalik
  December 22nd, 2021
  

  Vegan propaganda!

  Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - David Robinson Simon
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  grandadfrog
  December 22nd, 2021
  

  Agenda 21/30, fake man made climate change propaganda. While the ruling class eat good sources of protein they intend to have us eating carcinogenic laboratory created meat and insects.See Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum.

  Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - David Robinson Simon
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  A.B.B
  December 30th, 2021
  

  @RashidMalik There is no propaganda in this book. The financial interests are with the animal agriculture industry. They have a ton of influence and power, to the point where they control what people are told to eat. Take a look at the USDA. They are responsible for telling people what to eat (by making dietary guidelines), while also being responsible for the profits of a very large animal agriculture sector (of the US). This is a massive conflict of interest. So when they are creating these dietary guidelines, it is the financial interests that sit on the review board that get to decide.

  This came to the debacle in 2015 - 2016, when they got too ambitious and released a preliminary report that classified cholesterol as no longer a nutrient of concern. Only to be sued by scientists because the review panel consisted mainly of Egg Board members that only reviewed their own research which contained very flawed designs (by design, their studies could not find unhealthy effects) while ignoring all previous research, particularly non industry funded research that did show harm.

  So it was the egg industry telling citizens that the products they sell are safe to eat (they cannot legally be advertised as such, due to salmonella and cholesterol), and that the dangerous compound in them, cholesterol, is not unhealthy. Even though it has been shown to be unhealthy with almost 100 years of data.

  It is unfair to consider plant based diets as propaganda when it is science that supports it. By showing many beneficial effects not only for your health (less heart disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure), but for global/public health as well, e.g. pandemics such as influenza are always a massive risk especially with pigs and chickens, as well as antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria that are on their way to becoming the primary killer of humans by 2050, surpassing heart disease). Also consider environmental health e.g. the majority of deforestation is due to meat, as well water pollution that causes ocean deadzones, and much more. The UN/IPCC are the largest environmental organization on our planet, and their conclusion is, is that eating less meat, especially red meat and dairy, and most optimally switching to a plant based diet, is the most ideal scenario. We should strive for that, to improve our health and planet, and to stop causing misery to others such as animals and slaughterhouse workers! And of course you must consider the real victims who have to go through this. Who get treated horribly (separated from their parents and usually killed if they are male upon birth. They get mutilated such as balls ripped off for pigs, tail clipped, teeth ripped out with pliers, beaks sliced for chickens, horns scorched off for cows, and much more, all of which are very painful and without anesthetic (because that will cost a few more cents!) - they also get forced into tiny pens for their whole lives, It’s nothing but torture and misery only to be chopped up at the end of it).

  @Grandadfrog Humans have a massive effect on the climate, it is not propaganda. It is not possible to look at the massive deforestation that we have done, and the incredible amount of carbon that we have taken out of the ground and pumped into the air, as having no effect. This is evident by basic observation. You can look at the damage with your own eyes. This is even more evident in the data. This is why environmental scientists are pleading for people to take this very seriously. It is imperative that we do for future generations.

  Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much And How to Eat Better, Live Longer, and Spend Smarter - David Robinson Simon

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