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  • The new food pyramid is just as influenced by lobbyist as the previous one. Only this time it’s the life stock industry.

    Plus anti-woke MAGA wants to distance itself from vegans as much as possible.

    But also, lean, fresh meat isn’t that bad. It does have a lot of protein, with really balanced amino-acids. You don’t have to carefully combine grains and legumes, in order to not miss out on essential nutrients.

    Meat also has a lot of bioavailable iron and vitamin B12. Both are important and usually insufficient in a vegan diet.

    If you count fish as meat, it also has bioavailable Omega-3. Especially fatty ocean-fishes like salmon. If you don’t eat fish, you either have to eat microalgae-oil or severely reduce your omega-6 consumption (no chips for you. They are fried in sunflower oil).

    In contrast to fresh meat, most processed meats are really bad:

    • Cured meat has sodium nitrate. That’s a known carcinogen.
    • Smoked meat has smoke particles. That’s another known carcinogen.
    • Charred meat has charring. Another carcinogen.

    And you also shouldn’t eat a lot of fat from land animals. It has a lot of saturated fats which, you guessed it, cause cancer.




  • They are missing out.

    When I started reading British books in their original language, instead of the professional translations, they got about 10× funnier. And that’s despite only having B1-B2 reading comprehension. Translations can never capture all of the connotations of a word or phrase.

    Your point about learning English might very well be true though. There is a high correlation amongst EU countries, between the average English level of adult citizens, and whether or not popular movies get dubbed or only get subtitles.

    YouTube introduced that horrible mandatory auto-dubbing recently. At some point, that might become viable, and that will probably severely impact language acquisition.











  • No. To my knowledge, putting the means of production into the hands of the people was never a majority opinion. And democracy is important.

    However, there are many social democratic policies that I believe have very broad support, and that still aren’t being implemented:

    • Universal healthcare (e.g. through mandatory insurance with central price negotiations)
    • Ban on pharmaceutical rebates
    • Universal free preschool
    • Free school lunch
    • Incentivising local governments to zone more medium density housing.

    Then there are other policies that I think would be really good for the US, but I am not sure the support is bipartisan:

    • Tighter control on monopolies
    • Unlimited sick days with a doctor’s note
    • Minimum vacation days
    • Raising minimum wage and implementing an automatic inflation adjustment
    • Maximum weekly work hours
    • Banning false self-employment
    • Union protections
    • Parental leave
    • Free college admission

    The latter category is also where I would place steps towards market socialism. For example federal laws that allow worker cooperatives (currently only some states allow them). And potentially even lowering the tax on worker co-ops compared to conventional companies.

    What’s your opinion on those questions?