AnimalsDream @ AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

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What are you talking about? Soy is great. Soy beans, soy curls, tofu, soy milk, soy sauce, miso. All kinds of great soy products.

That's a pretty fair assessment, though it's hard to imagine that being much less of an uphill battle. People still place a significant amount of their identity in what they eat. In the US at least, a culture of perceived personal freedoms still heavily prevails. Even though vegans are already relegated to trying to appeal to people to change their individual choices voluntarily, people still frequently accuse us of militancy and being tyrannical - even though we've virtually never even had real representation in government, aside from very small hard-won anti animal abuse laws that have resulted from extremely risky investigative operations.

Any governmental system that makes any attempts to shift us all in a more vegan direction would quite easily provoke significant backlash and possibly even the threat of overthrow.

One thing I never see brought up about the factory farm systems, maybe cause it is a bit of a distraction from animal rights, is that hypothetically these systems are turnkey human genocide infrastructure. It is infrastructure for a sort of perpetual animal, uh... regenocide? afterall.

Seems outlandish and unthinkable, maybe. But then again, all bets are off with the current administration in the US.

On a planet where 95-99% of people consume animal products, and still heavily participate in the systems of animal captivity, brutality, and exploitation; can you explain how overthrowing capitalism and replacing it with socialism is going to make a vegan world happen?

The majority of emerging infectious diseases have a zoonotic origin, and factory farms are basically ideal breeding grounds for pandemics.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/13/factory-farms-and-the-next-pandemic/

Raisin.

Look at my last few comments. I'm well aware of the psychological role and appetite in weight loss, I literally brought it up elsewhere. I didn't bring it up here because it wasn't relevant, I was speaking strictly about the physiological side of weight. It's just basic thermodynamics. If you take in more energy than you use, you're going to accrue a surplus. And if you're burning more energy than you take in, your stores are going to deplete. There might be various factors that attenuate this equation plus or minus, but every real, science-backed, time-tested weight loss plan still respects the central role of calorie management.

And of all the absurd weight loss strategies I have ever heard of, a handful of fat-soluble vitamins is news to me. It literally just sounds like your own personal anecdote. And aside from it not seeming to have any real evidence behind it, and the issue of it likely not being a broadly helpful protocol for most other people even if it somehow maybe helped you; the issue I take with it is that wherever feasible, a person should get their micronutrients from whole food sources. We evolved eating food, not supplements. The way nutrients interact in our bodies is can in some cases be completely different if they're in an isolated form, than if they're in their intact whole food form. Getting nutrients from food, particularly if you're managing to eat a diversity of foods, also makes it a lot less likely that you're going to overdose on them.

Which brings me to the other side of that. All of this stuff you're saying about toxicity just sounds like copium. It's especially aggravating because if you ask any nutritional expert, they will tell you straight away that the fat soluble vitamins are exactly the ones you should be most careful with. Those are the ones that accumulate in the body over time, and most easily get to toxic levels.

Seriously, your advice is irresponsible. You really need to stop, and by the sounds of it, maybe dial down your vitamin doses.

I've never taken Ozempic, but I did used to be a pharmacy tech, and having to tell patients that it was unavailable due to supply issues, on a daily basis, really sucked. I'm sure it was much worse for them.

Ozempic can be the right choice, but it's good to do plenty of research, and if you can, prioritize lifestyle interventions first. Here's a video series on Ozempic, as well as ways that you can stimulate glp-1 production naturally through diet and lifestyle-

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TLzNi5fYd90bMuM9SuzQ83E1IsM3Yy4

While your point is technically true, you're ignoring the bigger picture. Some people are genetically predetermined to having an uncontrollable appetite. We're talking about something that for some people is so extreme it's worse than the worst addictions. Willpower is just outright a nonstarter, especially when you factor in the presence of our toxic food environment (ie., the way super markets are so stuffed full of junk food and junk food advertising that it becomes virtually guaranteed that the vast majority of people will habitually eat poorly).

Ozempic is absolutely an appropriate choice for people who struggle with appetite control. It may not be perfect, and ultimately it is best to do whatever we can for lifestyle interventions, but sometimes we just have to work with what we've got too.

I'm sorry, but what? Weight gain is most primarily the result of calorie surplus, with genetics playing a major role as well. Telling people to take random vitamins, especially when you don't know the full story of their dietary and micronutrient status is just completely inappropriate and unhelpful.

To be fair, how many anti-vaxx haters are vegan? And I am pro-vaccination. But also it would be nice if we could solve the whole pandemic problem a bit more completely, rather than slapping a band-aid on while sprinting for the next round.

Okay, so more World Economic Forum, less Electronic Frontier Foundation?

Sounds like we need more EFF's of video games then.

My question is, what is this group as an entity, and why does their opinion matter? Are they an ngo-style advocacy group, or an actual governing body of some kind?

I don't think that's true. I have a 20+ year old iBook G3 that I keep around to tinker with Mac OS 7-9. The usb slots either don't work, or at least don't support newer usb drives, so it's only a matter of time before I hop over to the Macintosh Garden and start burning discs again.

Unfortunately you're going to have to rewatch every episode of Star Trek you previously watched, but this time use Linux to do it.

"MiStEr OwL, hOw MaNy LiCkS dOeS iT tAkE tO gEt To ThE cEnTeR oF a ToOtSiE PaWp?"

Even without iodized salt it's easy to get iodine on a plant-based diet, it just comes down to adding a small amount of some kind of seaweed each day, dulse flakes being a good choice.

But iodized salt is simpler, cheaper, more available, so that's usually my default.

What is your thyroid disorder?