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Don't I get a choice?

No.

North Korean TV airs movie-like footage of Kim Jong Un guiding an ICBM test

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided the successful test-launch of a new “powerful tool for nuclear attack” called the “Hwasong-17” intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on March 24, 2022 as part of efforts to “contain” the U.S., state media reported the next day. The ICBM launch broke...

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You said that peasants were healthier than kings.

Nowadays we are sicker than ever and yet live pretty long lives.

 

[levi]

Nowadays we are sicker than ever and yet live pretty long lives.

Speak for yourself there.

 

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[Bosbeetle]

Peasants rarely ate meat from what I understood. Even if they kept animals, meat production was expensive and thus they reserved meat for special occasions.

The irony is that kings (and other wealthy folks) ate the most expensive food, trying to be gluttons and consume the best, but in doing so they just ended up degrading their health and degrading their well-being on an inferior diet.

Wich made this nice recipe possible: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7b7...stuffed-inside-each-other-and-it-is-delicious

His recipe calls for a bustard stuffed with a turkey stuffed with a goose stuffed with a pheasant stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a duck stuffed with a guinea fowl stuffed with a teal stuffed with a woodcock stuffed with a partridge stuffed with a plover stuffed with a lapwing stuffed with a quail stuffed with a thrush stuffed with a lark stuffed with an ortolan bunting stuffed with a garden warbler stuffed with an olive stuffed with an anchovy stuffed with a single caper, with layers of Lucca chestnuts, force meat and bread stuffing between each bird, stewed in a hermetically sealed pot in a bath of onion, clove, carrots, chopped ham, celery, thyme, parsley, mignonette, salted pork fat, salt, pepper, coriander, garlic, and “other spices,” and slowly cooked over a fire for at least 24 hours.

Many of these birds are now endangered.

 

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How so? The truck does not seem like it would be particularly frugal in fuel usage.

 

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[pyrat]

It depends on the animal. I once heard that chickens and hens (and eggs) used to be a luxury. It's not that they ate more feed than cows or pigs, but because chickens ate cereal which was something humans ate too. If you had cereal, you could make bread, it was foolish to give it to a chicken. Unless you were so rich that you had plenty of cereal, then you could have the luxury of chickens, hens and eggs. Pigs could eat a lot of things, including remmants of human food, parts that people could not eat. And cows, goats and horses eat grass (yes often in common grounds, although those weren't infinite). But cows and horses were expensive to buy, so you had to have a few good years to manage to get a couple and have them breed. But chickens ? Nah, you had to give them your grain, picky beasts.

 

[netcat]

People started eating meat out of desperation then became addicted. Our bodies must produce a lot of blood so if you consume blood directly thats an efficiency gain and you are rewarded with something like endorphins.

Back in the day we were nomadic herders because tilling the soil was waaaaaay over our heads. Think about what needs to happen to make a bowl of rice. Your mind melts. Much easier to just wander around eating berries and shrubs and supplementing them with a goat you drag around then slaughter eventually. All you need is fire. You don't even need a blade, you can strangle the goat (and get free entertainment). You have to be smart to eat vegetables. That's why we eat meat.

 

[netcat]

Nowadays we are sicker than ever and yet live pretty long lives.

We are sick because we live long lives.

The Medical Industrial Complex keeps telling us their medicine is so awesome we'll live to be 120. In reality they are prepping us for forking over our life savings. Yay! We'll be alive! Mentally, there is a natural time to say adiós. I want to give as much of my savings as possible to my daughter. She can make more of it than me in a fucking wheelchair on uppers. So I'm planning a swift exit and am already prepping for the great beyond. I have requested that my favourite electric guitar (Gibson SG) be in my coffin. Actually I might request my Wii go with me aswell. Especially if the FPGA upscaling actually works.

 

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We are sick because we live long lives.

That may be part of it, but is definitely not the only reason. Virtually every adult I know is sick and fat. In fact, even many children are now sicker than me (and I am still not as healthy as I was as a child). Society gradually needs less time to get someone sick. There is not some backwards causality involved where those people get sick now because they live long lives in the future. The truth is that people get sick from all the waste they consume and then they live long because they get surgery, suppressive medicine, and other sick care. People live long but they thrive very short.

Our bodies must produce a lot of blood so if you consume blood directly thats an efficiency gain

I doubt that. I would guess that this is inefficient for the same reason that getting protein from meat is ineffcient. The human body typically cannot use foreign proteins as it's own. Instead, it must break down those proteins into amino acids and then build it's own proteins from those amino acids. So eating proteins is actually a less efficient method of getting protein than eating amino acids. It being from meat makes it worse because the human body is also clumsy with meat, digesting it with a digestive system that is really build for lightly digestible plant matter.

I think that blood probably also needs to be broken down into it's building blocks first and that the human body is probably as clumsy with it as it is with meat.

Anyway, maybe we ought to split of this discussion. It seems a bit off-topic here. [Insert joke of it actually being on-topic]

 

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[rygD]

Aren't these cats banned in Germany?

 

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