Interesting Links for 01-06-2022
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- 1. Switching to plant-based cheese can reduce carbon emissions by 50 per cent compared to the dairy version
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- 2. After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed 'peak agricultural land'
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- 3. How a Glaswegian responds to a killer whale
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- 4. Biden's top Middle East adviser has a history of cosying up to autocrats
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- 5. The Telegraph doesn't pay its contributors
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- 6. Artist who made Nazi art turns out to be a Nazi
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- 7. Don't Wordle - can you avoid winning?
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- 8. Prince Rupert's Drop Exploding in Epoxy Resin at 456,522 fps
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- 9. The Tories gave Boris Johnson the power to call an election whenever he likes. Now they're worried he'll use it.
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- 10. After Xinjiang Revelations, Germany's Ties to China Are Under the Microscope
- (tags:germany trade rights )
- 11. New rules ban many single-use plastics in Scotland
- (tags:plastic environment scotland )
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Date: 2022-06-01 11:39 am (UTC)all the plant-based cheeses that I have tried are VERY bad for people with Irritable bowel syndrome / sensitivity to FODMAPs [fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols]
I would love to reduce my carbon footprint, but cheese isn't it.
On the other hand, I haven't eaten meat for 32 years
and the last time I was on a plane was 2011...
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Date: 2022-06-01 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 11:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 12:35 pm (UTC)https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9308/
(Which was why I phrased it that way)
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Date: 2022-06-01 02:19 pm (UTC)And the Fixed Term Act recedes into a quirk of history.
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Date: 2022-06-01 11:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 01:45 pm (UTC)Sadly, cheese is one of my few allowed sources of protein -
I've been vegetarian for 32 years
I can't eat fish
and I'm supposed to strictly limit
chickpeas;
soy;
and nuts
because of Irritable bowel syndrome / sensitivity to FODMAPs [fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols] :(
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Date: 2022-06-03 01:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 12:59 pm (UTC)I feel it's better just to eat the (less processed) beans nuts and oils that these "substitutes" are made from...
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Date: 2022-06-01 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 02:27 pm (UTC)I particularly love cashew nuts and our local artisanal nut butter maker, Zoe, makes a fabulous cashew nut butter (and a cashew and tiger nut one)- so much better than all your fake cheeses!
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Date: 2022-06-03 01:55 am (UTC)Yeah. It usually tastes bad and the stuff just will not melt in, say, an omelette. I'll happily cook with soy milk in place of cow milk, but cheese needs to come from actual animals, it appears.
I eat cheese -- just not a lot of it, because cholesterol is a concern. I eat very little meat -- mostly fish and vegetarian -- so I figure that can offset my small cheese consumption.
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Date: 2022-06-01 02:51 pm (UTC)and earn you undying love from us wannabe-vegans <3
"2. After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed 'peak agricultural land'"
i am actually studying the history of agriculture in my work on my master's... can't discuss it yet, i am still on the scratching-seeds-into-the-ground part of our evolution...
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Date: 2022-06-02 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-01 07:35 pm (UTC)There are better figures in the article, but my first thought was "only 50% ?"
Calorie for calorie, beef has a lot more than twice the carbon footprint of the grain the cows are assumed to have eaten, though I doubt I could get many calories from the grass the cows I see eating.
I have problems with FODMAPS too; thanks for the warning about vegetable cheese-substitions
1) many dairy substitutes are low in calcium; I'm borderline osteoporosis so that matters to me.
2) I react badly to soya spreads. Turns out that sensitivity to soya is more common than some more well known food sensitivities.
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Date: 2022-06-02 11:39 am (UTC)Including milk, actually, but lactase really helps with that.
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Date: 2022-06-02 08:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-02 11:40 am (UTC)