I knew a lot of people that were addicted to weed because they were bored without it and because their social lives are completely dependant on smoking weed -- without weed they would just sit awkwardly. Some of them went more than a decade like this and didn't develop many important areas of their mind because of it.
I've had several impossible burgers and they completely live up to the hype. They taste very good indeed. But I have noticed a slight uptick in anxiety after eating them, maybe 30 mins after or so. This anxiety comes out of the blue, the first few burgers I had, I had zero health or safety thoughts in my mind that might have precipitated the anxiety. Interested if anyone else has had a similar experience.
I always get this wheezy feeling like a little bit of fluid is building up in my lungs after I eat the impossible burger. I don't know what causes it; the only thing I can think of is maybe the unusually high iron content (at least compared to anything else in a plant-based diet).
I googled the ingredients. It contains coconut oil, which is thyroid support. If it contains a lot of coconut oil and you don't normally consume such, that might explain it.
The problem with trying to replace meat. Is the unknowns about why we survived as carnivores for thousands upon thousands of years and our current obsession to suddenly play god with a food supply.
We don’t know what we don’t know. And impossible doesn’t know why there would be side effects. Or they do and you’ll not know.
Buy grass fed organic meat and eat less of it. We already eat too much.
I think Buddhists would disagree that humanity has survived solely as carnivores for thousands of years. Plenty of other cultures have existed on solely vegetarian/vegan diets as well, throughout history. Peasants within meat-eating cultures also did not always have frequent access to meat, and thus ate primarily vegetarian, or perhaps pescatarian. The idea that humans have always eaten meat and that it’s an essential part of the human diet is a myth.
What are these cultures which existed solely on vegan diets? Honest question, I searched but couldn't find the answer, there was a response on Quora which mentioned some Buddhists are vegan by default, and some Hindus and Essene Christians are vegetarian, but she "wasn't aware of any 100% vegan cultures."
I can understand vegetarian cultures surviving, since they can acquire essential nutrients through the animal products found in diary, but would be intrigued to find a vegan (plant-based only) culture. Was there perhaps one in the distant past or ?
You used to be able to acquire B12 from crops because some of the natural bacteria flora contained the cyanobacteria that make it. Modern farming's use of industrial pesticides means we can't use that as a source anymore.
The Jain's diet is largely plant-based. It allows for dairy, but only in the case that the cows aren't hurt as part of the process.
I’m not an expert in the subject, but I don’t think we know. “Vegan” didn’t exist as a term until a few decades ago. Many Buddhist monks lived entirely vegan lifestyles, or so it is believed, but veganism doesn’t have a strict definition among vegans today. I probably should’ve just used the term “vegetarian”, but then I thought about the monks.
Grass fed organic meat will solve all of our problems right?
Except for the fact that it is too expensive for most to afford, meaning only the upper class can eat the stuff and feel good about it; also it produces much more methane per pound of meat than the corn-fed and hormone-injected equivalent; and finally it requires MUCH more space -- space that could be used for more sustainable agriculture like soy farms or chicken factories.
Environmentally and economically it seems like America should be engineering it's meat. Ethically, this is a different story, especially with the torturing of animals that often accompanies this meat engineering process.
The reason that I personally stand behind the development of meat alternatives like the impossible, and cultured meat, is that these are attempts to continue increasing the environmental and economic viability of meat while simultneously eliminating the ethical issues completely.
Yes the alternative meat field is young and not effective right now, but that's no reason to abandon all hope that cheap sustainable meat-like sustenance is possible. Impossible should be lauded and encouraged to improve their product. Their very name is a clue that what they are trying to do is not easy, but I think if successful, it could pay off big for society.
Given the choice, I'd rather we play God a little more with weird foods and a little less with the futures of billions of people who will be driven from their homes of much worse by climate change.
Meh, lots of "meat" foods we eat today are heavily processed and filled with completely unnatural preservatives, I don't see "fake meats" as any different than say, cheap hotdogs.
We've been playing god with our food supply since forever (salting meats to preserve them [salt is bad for you! right?], agriculture, the list goes on...)
The one sure thing about humans in terms of diet is opportunistic omnivorousness. We were never herbivore or carnivores, and the fact that we would gladly chew leaves, eat fruit in season, and suck the marrow from a bone we found all contributed to our lasting success. We’re definitely not, and have never been dietary specialists.
Eat meat or don’t (I do), but don’t kid yourself about some historical or dietary imperitive, and don’t ignore a couple of million years of our and our ancestors’ omnivorous history. It’s also unwise to argue from a historical precedent that has little or no relevance unless you’re cranking out kids in your teens, hunting and gathering, and dying young. We’ve spent a lot of time and energy removing ourselves from the demanding lives of our distant ancestors, and plenty of them ate mostly plants and thrived. Remember gladiators? https://archive.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.htm...
Yeah, eating meat is a choice we make, and only one some of us are lucky to be able to make. History is full of us eating meat, and full of us (especially the poor in all ages) eating mostly or exclusively grain, pulses, and vegetables with some diary I’d they were lucky.
Thank you. It's obvious in several ways that we've evolved to be omnivorous. We have pronounced molars. We have relatively long digestive tracts. We can synthesize basic nutrients from plant diet precursors that are common in meat diets.
I feel like tying ips to a name and tying accounts to real people or to each other should be handled by the same entity. It could be called identity services. We need more centralized, simplified and potent identity services
I can't agree with you enough in everything you've said. I taught myself how to lucid dream in 2011. I used a technique where I made a habit of checking reality through the day every day. Eventually the habit became ingrained enough that I started remembering to check even during dreams, triggering a realization that I was actually dreaming and initiating a lucid dream.
It is exactly as you described. Nobody can ever understand it until they experience it. Comparing it to the matrix might do it a little justice. But there are limitations -- waking up, falling back into non-lucidity, false awakenings and so on.
The first lucid dream I had was glorious. I was dreaming about being on a very tall grey building with overcast skies, on a wooden deck protruding from the side of the building. I became lucid and commanded the sky to crack with lightning and it did. I flew upward and created a swirl of clouds and was generally having an amazing time. This all was as if it were completely real. Then, too excited, I woke up. But it was a terrifying false awakening where a black figure sprinted toward me and attacked me. Then I woke up for real, absolutely terrified. It was so scary that I decided not to lucid dream anymore. But with recounting all of this, and thinking about it for the first time again, I think I might start doing it again.
Its a LOT like the matrix. Perception of your ability to alter reality makes reality altering possible, with the only limitation being your own faith in the extent reality can be altered. Very meta.
I never consciously do reality checks, but I'm a very inquisitive and skeptical person. Easily distracted by cracks in the wall type.
I wouldn't let one bad experience stop you from lucid dreaming :( . I might be an outlier, but my experiences have been overwhelmingly amazing. Yes, I still have nightmares are the lucid ones are waaayyy worse. But lucid dreaming is such a great experience I would never wish it away
The faith part is hard. When I've managed to be lucid flying is a skill that is hard to master. I get a lot of big hops but can't seem to actually fly.
Ethics? Do you think Tesla is bad for selling cars to China? No country has intact ethics, your comment is ridiculous. Sa is one of the biggest and most promising investors in renewables precisely because of their oil background. Oil is going to implode soon and they know it. Their economy and foreign policy rely heavily on oil, so they are carrying out a transition away from it now rather than wait. So yes, "selling out" to them is more than ok -- it's brilliant.
Thank you so much for this valuable post. Did you mean that China leads the usa in tonnage? And did you mean that large liquid natural gas ships aren't planning out when you said very very large ship orders aren't materializing? Isn't there a large effort underway to put natural gas on ships, therefore undermining Russia's pipelines and also bolstering large ship production?
> Did you mean that China leads the usa in tonnage?
I'm not sure. I believe China is now #2 in terms of raw tonnage, just edging out Korea.
> And did you mean that large liquid natural gas ships aren't planning out when you said very very large ship orders aren't materializing?
The container ship business was upsizing the ships to unbelievable sizes and capacity. But it's a little like the A380 aircraft, it wasn't the right bet as local port handling capacity in many older ports isn't sized for ships and carrying capacity above some load. It turns out the overall satisfaction with those super large ships isn't there and some of the shipyards that were retrofitted to be able to build those monsters simply aren't getting the orders for those class of ships.
> Isn't there a large effort underway to put natural gas on ships, therefore undermining Russia's pipelines and also bolstering large ship production?
There are ships that can move LNG and similar fuel types. But for intra-continental shipment, nothing beats pipelines. The wikipedia article on LNG ships even mentions the DSME shipyard and some capacity and future order infomation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNG_carrier
The Korean government is democratically elected as recently noted in the news. Aren't you saying "I hope the Korean people aren't stupid enough to try and save themselves?"
