Maybe my phrasing was a bit accidentally misleading - when I mentioned they are where everyone wants to study at or the ones publishing the most research, I meant locally, for Brazilians and to some extent our LATAM neighbors.
That's why you probably never heard of them by name, they don't carry the weight of an "Oxford" or "Tokyo University".
That said, you absolutely interacted with fruits of their research. The term "ultra processed food" comes from the University of SΓ£o Paulo and their research.
The best universities in Brazil, the ones everyone wants to study at and the ones producing cutting edge research... Are all free, they're public universities. The private ones can't compete on most metrics.
So yeah, maybe americans should drop the whole "first world" tag to pretend they're special and rebalance their priorities.
In that case, thanks for informing us that cows can eat grass. We are very proud of you. We absolutely had that knowledge already, but still, thanks for your effort.
The only way this is a strawman is if your statement is a non sequitur. Otherwise, my reply very much holds.
You can't counter "raising enough cows to supply our current meat demand takes a lot of resources we could be eating instead" with "its okay for them to eat grass :D" unless the implication is that eating grass is sufficient to meet that demand.
Otherwise, you're just commenting that cows eat grass. Which congrats, I guess? I think I know some middle school students who might be surprised by the information?
This is true, and also not usually well taken by most people, even the ones claiming to be pro environment.
Wait until this thread gets full of people saying that their habits are irrelevant because companies pollute much more - which they do indeed, but that absolutely does not negate the many studies we have that calculate a major impact if we simply dropped red meat.
Which is again quite obvious if you think about the energetic demand of growing food only to feed an animal that then will become food, rather than skipping this step and eating the original food instead.
I wonder who selected the companies to provide the batteries