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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • the saturated fats are horrendous for you.

    Still not as bad as sugar, most essential fatty acids are saturated, while there is no such thing as an essential sugar, because we can make all the sugar we need from other types of food.
    Bacon and eggs are not nearly as unhealthy as some have made them out to be, and it turns out sugar is a way more dangerous source for the most damaging form of cholesterol there is.

    The reason bacon is bad and cancerous is mostly because it’s smoked, and people like to fry it hard. It has very little to do with saturated fat.






  • Yes, but meat demands are also deforesting huge swathes of land all over the world.

    You can use that argument for everything that isn’t run in a sustainable manner. The same can go for growing vegetables that are not for animal feeding but human consumption. But it can be done in a sustainable manner, and obviously that was what I meant.

    Brazil’s deforestation is the world’s most extreme.

    Last I heard the land recovered from deforestation in Brazil is not very good, and generally cannot sustain their crops for long, the land becomes infertile, and they continue the deforestation.
    This is unsustainable no matter what the crop is or is for. And is not a good argument against farming that is sustainable.
    It especially sucks when it’s rain forest that is lost, because it is extremely hard to get to recover again. I live in Denmark, and we produce 3 times more meat than we consume, and that is done with sustainable farming. Most of the farmland we have today used to be infertile heathland, and took decades to improve into fertile farmland.
    Many countries have similar types of land that can be improved, so the problem is that they don’t do that instead of destroying valuable land.
    But to make it work requires government incentives to do that instead of ruining fertile lands and then just move on when the soil is depleted.