blathin Forum Posts (3,125)

RE: Plant-based / vegan diet / foods - info from me and the why - what do you all think about it?

yes there's a huge difference in flavour between grass fed and mostly grain fed factory farm animals. Factory farming isn't farming, it's about as cruel as you can get...and nothing but torture for the poor animals....

There's a youtube video called Food Inc....you might find it rather disturbing...and glad you've moved to a VBD..

I grew up on a farm so have first hand experience of what farming is (should be) about... .There's nothing lovlier than for the good weather to arrive and to watch the farm animals literaly dance into the fields with excitement on their first day of freedom in the open fields after beingkept inside all winter...(to protect the land and the animals)

As for drinking water, there is none...what comes out of the tap has been contaminated with chlorine..and they've also moved to a different form of chlorine that's even harder to remove from the water chloramide I think it's called......The only water that's true water these days is either filtered via reverse osmosis or (fingers crossed) bottled water in glass bottles....The purer water is the more corrosive it becomes....drinking water from plastic bottles is not a safe way to drink water...

Completely agree with you wrt people standing by things they know nothing about...just to support their bias/es or soemthing that "sounds" right to them...

RE: Healthy vegan diet / plant-based - for health, save the planet, ethics, are you already?

I wasn't starting an arguement because I've no interest in one, that's Jac's speciality....

The truth is pretty simple imo...

Eat real food sensibly and your body will thank you. How you treat your body today and tomorrow is the body you will get in ten years....

A little meat is a good thing as it provides protein and B12 that can't be found in veg....the problem is the western diet has far far ar too much meat in it...and little to no fish either. Fish ,if left alone, can replenish their own shoal size inside 5 to 7 years.....imagine how many acres of rain forest woudl have been saved if fish were the dominant protein source in the west..

The questions future generations will be asking and really need answers to ... is what's the most energy efficent way to get protein and other vital nutrition and make it self sustaining so reliance on oil/fuel.chemicals etc..can be zero....

RE: Healthy vegan diet / plant-based - for health, save the planet, ethics, are you already?

Hmm not sure I believe that one...As far as I know, there's no way anyone will put on fat if they're eating a 100% plant based diet and not eathing other junk along side it..e.g. additives, sugar..

Muscles are heavier than fat so I'm wondering if it may be the case that you became more active after changing to a PBD and exchanged the fat for muscles...

RE: What is... Truth...?

Hurt me? Not at all teenameena, why would you think that?

RE: Healthy vegan diet / plant-based - for health, save the planet, ethics, are you already?

What I said was:

"If meat eating was so good for us then why are so many grossly obese people (many of which are American who eat vast quantities of meat) so overweight but yet so undernourished and so lacking in nutrients?

Because they dont eat enough , if any, vegetables, salads etc etc..."

That is NOT fat shaming. That is what's called asking a question. So if you think that's fat shaming then you're accusing every scientist who's ever done or is doing research into the same question offat shaming as well....

And it's people like you who kill the pursuit of truth, knowledge and inquiry....with your stupid little "oh your fat shaming" nonsense. Grow up and get over yoruself jac. People want answers and to get those answers questions need to be asked...Enough people with your attitude will mean no one can ever ask a question again and that's it....end of answers....end of discovery...end of solutions to problems...

is that the kind of world you want to live in eh?

The only thing I'm guilty of in that paragraph is asking a question that you chose to take offence at....that's your problem, not mine..

RE: Over 1/2 million beers will be sold at the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville

Your point being?

RE: What is... Truth...?

if you're so sure you know the answer then why did you bother asking?

RE: is bitter truth better than sweet lies?

It depends on to whom the honest person is lying....

You can be sure almost everyone lies at an interview, to their other half, to their kids, parents friends etc etc

Humans have self preservation hardwired into them...lying is part of that self preservation, so there aint no getting away from it, peop;e will lie if they feel even the tiniest bit threatened or insecure...even to someoen they know won't hurt them.e.g their own children....

Have a nice day

RE: Healthy vegan diet / plant-based - for health, save the planet, ethics, are you already?

You should read the research on the differing effects eating vegetables and eathing meats have on your arteriies etc....loads of stuff online...

Where did you get the notion it's not healthy to not eat meat? There are hardly any nutrients in meat except protien, so if you were to live on meat alone you'd soon find yourself unwell...the same can't be said of vegetables though..you could live on them alone and be very healthy...as many athletes are testimony to.

We can eat meat, but we're not designed to eat it in the vast quantities westerners eat every day..A large steak in the US would be as much as a family in China would use in a week...mind you that's changing the Chinese are now beginning to eat a lot more dairy and meat and the effects are beginning to show....

If meat eating was so good for us then why are so many grossly obese people (many of which are American who eat vast quantities of meat) so overweight but yet so undernourished and so lacking in nutrients?

Because they dont eat enough , if any, vegetables, salads etc etc...

RE: Healthy vegan diet / plant-based - for health, save the planet, ethics, are you already?

He wasn't telling you what to eat ...

RE: Plant-based / vegan diet / foods - info from me and the why - what do you all think about it?

future generations , unless they have the luxury of owning their own farm and being able to keep their own livstock, wno't have the option, they'll have to move to a vegetarian diet and quite likely even a fully vegan one...There's no way the planet can sustain the amount of meant being eaten todaywhen the glbobal population is up at 10 billion, as predicted by 2050. It takes a quarter of an acre to feed a vegan family but four acres to feed a meat eating family

RE: What is... Truth...?

Something that cannot be shown to be false

I think!....

RE: Dating post Covid..

A book of music Track..

RE: Dating post Covid..

Me too Sel..me too

RE: What do old people think about ?

Is that because you left out knitting

RE: Proverbs..

RE: Dating post Covid..

Men! they're soooo easy to read...

RE: Dating post Covid..

Since Omicron is the dominant version now, and the vaccine only really worked against the alpha and delta variants, which are still around but far far less so, then it doesnt make any difference...the vaccinations are pretty much obsolete...so we're all unvaccinated..

No! gerroff.... I'm not dating you Sel....

RE: Where has the master bloviator gone?

Well whereever Galrads is, I hope he's ok and happy...

Oh , just thought, he wouldn't have fallen into one of those massive bins of his I wonder....

RE: Proverbs..

Define empty?

RE: What do old people think about ?

You're getting the pension in three years time? Jesus Sel I'd never have guessed that . I never really gave your age much thought but if asked I would have assumed maybe late 40's...

So what's your secret? *licks pencil*

RE: JOHNNY DEPP TRIAL

it never ceases to amaze me how so many self proclaimed "nice" people can get so much pleasure , gossip and entertainment out of someone else's misery...

RE: Proverbs..

Being well adapted to a sick society is no measure of one's own good health...

RE: What do old people think about ?

yeh Adonis is well old alright...

RE: What do old people think about ?

I noticed that about the Spaniards Selenite.. they all look waay younger than their age...

RE: Highlights of your place and or travels (if any)

Wow, amazing photos Ten, they're places I'd love to go and see...

There's an abandoned village in Turkey, hidden in the hills/underground. It's supposed to be big enough to house 40,000 people and they can't work out why it was abandoned..It's on my list to go and see..

if you're ever in Czech republic..and have time, go and see the chapel of skulls...it's pretty macabre but still..

RE: The good ole days...

Oh a very long way to go Name...very long...

If men had to deal with all the things women have to deal you can be sure the world would be in very different place...

There are so so so many things we women have to think very carefully about that men take for granted.

When women can take the same things for granted and not have to give them a second thought, then we'll be living in a fair world...

RE: The good ole days...

that's funny Name...

But..awww...poor galrads, he's always the butt of someone's joke...

RE: would you date...an alpha woman?

Alpha women do like each other and they can speak for themselves thank you

RE: Old time talent shows

As kids we weren't so much spectators as we were participants. We didn't watch a lot of tv and definitely woudn't have watched that kinda stuff..too boring.....but we did do that stuff ourselves though, out playing , at school...at home/at friends houses if it was raining and we couldn't go out etc...

Never span plates though..because.mother would have killed us so it wasn't worth the grief we'd get