19-09-2023, 09:29 PM
Currently watching a program on Russian nuclear submarine wreak in the norweigan/Russian waters.... lots of fish swimming there...obviously its not leaking yet
(19-09-2023, 05:44 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]The early hunter-gatherers would have eaten whatever they could catch or forage, which I understand. These days, the meat that is for sale has little resemblance to those early, free-ranging animals. If you eat organically raised meat, you're getting closer to the original but, these days, livestock can be fed all sorts of mass-produced food supplements and receive all manner of veterinary treatments before it hits your plate. You only have to go back to the BSE outbreak when cattle were fed food supplements that contained parts of other animals, to see how unscrupulous some of the agriculture industry can behave. Whatever you eat, becomes part of you. Antibiotics used on animals pass down, or up, the food chain. Its one of the reasons why I stopped eating meat...........but, each to their own.The same can be said about veg? The veg we eat aren't what our ancestors ate. There were no seed oils just tallow and lard.Plants have been hybradised, genetically modified, highly processed,treatted with fungicide, corn klilled off with glypsophate before harvest and gawd know'swhat else has been done to them!
(20-09-2023, 11:01 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]At least we have a modicum of control over the veg we grow on our own plots! Wonder if I can grow 30 different veg/fruit/herbs to eat each week?? That'll be a real Challenge.Yes you are right about the modicum of control but even open pollinated varieties grown by ourselves have toxins within the plant. The plants sole intention is to grow and set seed for it's next generation. It can't run away or fight a predator (which is what we are) so has developed toxins to kill or deter predators, killing them off either slowly or quickly depending on the plant! Some 'tasty'fruits are the exception which require an animal to eat them to spread their seed.
(20-09-2023, 12:47 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]Whatever you say, Vinny. You'd read up on this, I haven't so I'm not going to dispute what you say. However, my view is that the ready availability of cheap, processed and fast foods, laden with artificial flavourings, preservatives, fats and sugar is the problem with obesity not eating fruit and vegetables, meat or fish. What I would call a "Back to basics" way of eating and that's the way I try to eat, without the meat.Not knocking you in the least veggie, yours is a good way to eat as well.
(20-09-2023, 11:01 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]At least we have a modicum of control over the veg we grow on our own plots! Wonder if I can grow 30 different veg/fruit/herbs to eat each week?? That'll be a real Challenge.I've made a list of the veg/fruit/herbs I grow and pick to see if I can reach 30. There are others that usually don't survive long enough to pick.