• O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    That’s easily going to cost Americans Billions in addition healthcare that we already can’t afford

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    Canadians already mostly stopped buying food from US sources because of the tarrifs, this will be another added reason to stop buying US sourced food.

    Hey buy our extra expensive food, now with extra fungus and bacteria! Exta extra illness, buy it while it’s fresh!

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    Better get your freedom gardens in order folks. Good time of year to plant them, right now!

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          Wonder if the PFAS water test kits are any good, or if I should just pony up the $500 and send soil sample off to a lab. Not that I could do anything about it. Still gotta eat.

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            Plant Hemp. It will grow fast and suck up most of those toxins and store them in the plant and roots. When harvesting just be sure to remove the roots and then till some compost back into the soil to fertilize it. You can easily get hemp from seed to full grown in 12-16 weeks.

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              It’s great advice, but not if our local water supply is contaminated. I’d need more rain water collection than I have room for!

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                  Astonishingly enough, in my very, very flawed state, rain water collection is not only legal, there are tax incentives for it. Although with the way things are going, it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s made illegal as another means of control.

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    3 months ago

    Let the mass poisonings … BEGIN!

    USA currently ranks 49th for life expectancy at birth and will be going lower fast. What a shithole country.

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    These are “people” that have never read The Jungle.

    (Assuming they’ve ever read any book at all…)

    Guess we’ll be expanding our diet to maggots, bug parts, and salmonella/e-coli whether we want them or not.

    🙄 🤡 🖕

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      I remember being annoyed when reading The Jungle because it correctly called out problems with industry, politics, and I think unions, but posited socialism as the way forward.

      Now I see that I was just under the spell of capitalistic dogma, and it was completely correct in every way. 😄

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    Wow! But don’t you all worry, as soon as one of us gets sick or dies, we’ll know who hot food poisoning. And we’ll continued eating it up. Did I miss anything? Like maybe reacting differently to such an event? Nah! That’s why chicken is so expensive! Its all the chlorine!

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    Never been a better time to try meat alternatives like Quorn or Impossible, which likely will be far less risky compared to unregulated Upton Sinclair meat 2.0.

    Especially Quorn, which is made in Ireland and thus has to pass EU safety inspections.

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      Don’t conservatives hate the fake meat industry? They will go for that and make it illegal next probably.

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        Impossible has been harassed with shady recall and regulatory practices lately. I can hardly find their products anymore and they used to be everywhere where I shop.

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        Gotta watch the veggies too. Vegetable crops on mass scale are often fertilized with liquid manure or liquified human excrement by spraying in the case of large scale farms near large metropolitan areas.

        Many areas that grow veggies also grow cattle and other animals which often pollutes with runoff, the water sources for vegetable farmers and meat farmers alike.

        No one is saved by this. Not the veggies or the carnivores. It’s bad all around. Quit infighting because you eat different food. You have a dictator controlling your government and courts.

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        I still hate that we’re in the stage of capitalism where kids will only eat fruit if you slap a sticker with a Disney character on it first.

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        It’s easier to switch people to plant based meats than it is to cut out meat-like foods entirely and potentially abandon their cherished family or cultural recipes that involve meat.

        It’s all plants in the end, after all, with all the climate emission and health benefits that brings :)

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      Feom what I can tell vegetables have been a lot more problematic recently. Though I’m just going from headlines.