It's not zero evidence, it's just not 100% certain. There have had known H5N1 infections in other mammals consuming raw milk that spilled. Many of them have died from it. Additionally, the testing that has happened shows that 1 in 5 US dairy samples are positive for H5N1 so it's prevelence is rather high making there be a very real risk
It's worth noting whatever's left is often still not enough to survive the winter. They often replace it with a form of sugar water that doesn't give the bees what they need
From a study looking at the harms of this replacement:
However, the amount
of HMF that can be found in homemade syrups, which increases with temperature and acidity, can be much higher
and can cause significant bee mortality. Moreover, we highlighted the detrimental effect of syrups acidity on
honeybee survival, suggesting that the addition of lemon or any other acidifying substance to invert the sucrose
could be harmful and not necessary.
From a less scientific source but talking about practices more broadly:
To harvest the honey, beekeepers either smoke the bees to subdue them, or trap them with a clearing board over one or two days. Others kill the colony altogether.
Oftentimes, beekeepers replace the honey they remove with a sugar water substitute. This practice prompts honeybees to overwork themselves to replace the missing honey. Meanwhile, the sugar water lacks the nutrients, fats, and vitamins that bees need to be healthy.
The paper shows its funding source The paper was published by authors from universities funded by government grants
The research leading to these results was funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), under Grant 613960 (SMARTBEES) and by the Dipartimento diScienze AgroAlimentari, Ambientali e Animali, University of Udine, Italy.
Here another talking about the sugar water use and harm if you don't trust the first
The immune system is one of the animals’ most expensive physiological systems to maintain, especially when food is deficient in proteins [2,11,12], which is extremely frequent in commercially kept colonies, usually fed on sugar syrup
And for author information:
Funding
The study was supported by the Eastern Apicultural Society of North America (grant awarded to E.T.), and by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (Grant No III46002 awarded to the project led by Zoran Stanimirovic). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Acknowledgments
Authors are thankful to the beekeepers from West Serbia (Sjenica, Prijepolje, Tutin, Raška, Novi Pazar and Priboj) for allowing the access to their honey bee colonies
All plant-based foods, whole-foods or not, have lower emissions than animal products
EDIT with a source:
Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits
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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
It is not well defined. Because an order of summation is not given you could just as easily sum pairs of (0,1), (-1,2), (-2,3), (-3,4)... (-x, x+1) and conclude you are constantly adding 1 to your total so it goes to infinity instead
Or do the reverse of (-1,0), (-2,1), ... (-x-1, x) and get that the each pair adds -1 so the sum goes to negative Infinity
Order of the addition sometimes changes infinite sums. Infinitely large things are weird sometimes
According to series animator Vincent Waller, "there is absolutely no meat in the Krabby Patty. There's no animal product in there", something which was always planned by series creator Stephen Hillenburg.[9]
...
he stated that there is no meat served in Bikini Bottom except at the Chum Bucket.
Definitional retreat – changing the meaning of a word when an objection is raised.[22] Often paired with moving the goalposts (see below), as when an argument is challenged using a common definition of a term in the argument, and the arguer presents a different definition of the term and thereby demands different evidence to debunk the argument.
Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy[1]—is the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites.
Redefining the counterfactual scenario. Why ignore the case of less beef production out of hand? Beef consumption has been declining over time in a number of countries. Then proceed to ignore the rest of the article's main point after that one word
Beef is an enormous outlier in emissions and they are pointing out that the claims that supposedly reduce it are highly missleading. They're not much of a reduction. People tout it as if the emissions were gone. They're nowhere near that
This is all missing the point. People are claiming it's carbon free or low emission when it is still substantially higher than other things. The beef industry loves to promote this as if it solves beef emissions. It does not. The emissions are still very much there. If it was touted as a small reduction that would be one thing
That's the ideal case, but in practice much of it is directly derived from natural gas instead of electrolysis
In 2022 less than 1% of hydrogen production was low-carbon.[1] Fossil fuels are the dominant source of hydrogen, for example by steam reforming of natural gas.[2]
The very first thing they talk about is grapples and how they're no longer sold. Then they recreating it by looking at the instructions in the patent for it from the company once making grapples
Yep, for a source for others about the plastic bit
The system that strips off the plastic wrappings can’t capture it all, and so in the UK a limit of 0.15% of plastic is allowed by the Food Standards Agency. The official EU level for plastic permitted in animal feed is zero although in reality many other countries operate within the same 0.15% limit.
I just don't see how the far right can rise or how they can win. The odds are so stacked against them. Is this something to actually be worried about ?...
Not OP, but the second paragraph on the article gives you an overview of findings
In this randomized clinical trial of 22 healthy, adult, identical twin pairs, those consuming a healthy vegan diet showed significantly improved low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, fasting insulin level, and weight loss compared with twins consuming a healthy omnivorous diet.
There is not really strong evidence of plant sentience. Here's one paper looking at it:
A. Plants do not show proactive behavior.
B. Classical learning does not indicate consciousness, so reports of such learning in plants are irrelevant.
C. The considerable differences between the electrical signals in plants and the animal nervous system speak against a functional equivalence. Unlike in animals, the action potentials of plants have many physiological roles that involve Ca2+ signaling and osmotic control; and plants’ variable potentials have properties that preclude any conscious perception of wounding as pain.
D. In plants, no evidence exists of reciprocal (recurrent) electrical signaling for integrating information, which is a prerequisite for consciousness.
E. Most proponents of plant consciousness also say that all cells are conscious, a speculative theory plagued with counterevidence.
Though something interesting and perhaps counter intuitive to note is that even if we realized plants were sentient, a plant-based diet actually involved killing fewer plants due to the lessened need to grow feed (of which most of the energy is lost)
It's not perfect, but I think that statement is rather misleading. Problems with plant agriculture are multiplied by animal agriculture which relies on it even more to grow crops for feed. Counterintuitively plant-based diets use fewer crops and less cropland compared to animal agriculture due to not loosing energy from feed crops going to creatures who use that energy on their own body function
Haha, luckily wasn't too bad because it only nicked my finger for a really short amount of time. It rotated past my finger when it flicked around. Could have been much worse
There already is momentum in the right direction in many countries such as Germany. I don't think it's a hopeless fight at all
In 2011, Germans ate 138 pounds of meat each year. Today, it’s 121 pounds — a 12.3 percent decline. And much of that decline took place in the last few years, a time period when grocery sales of plant-based food nearly doubled.
I would hazard saying "environmentally effective" here unless we are willing to ignore some of the other large environmental issues with meat production outside of just green house gases emission. Plant-based foods are lower not just on GHG emissions, but water usage, land usage, eutrophication, fertilizer usage^1^, etc.
There's all kinds of other pollutants such as Nitrogen runoff. The rise of the pig farming is has helped fueled a crisis in Nitrogen runoff in the Netherlands for instance
There's the high level of antibiotic usage to maintaining the high levels of production fueling antibiotic resistance.
And so on.
If we do want to look at the suffering, we should also note that chicken farming does not just keep things the same, but actually makes it worse with more chickens required than other creatures due to their smaller size.
EDIT: I should also mention that land use change (deforestation) factor can change as you rapidly increase these industries size. Deforestation makes up a large portion of beef's current emissions. Plant-based foods require overall less cropland due to not needing to grow any feed and removing that energy loss. This is not the case for chicken production. Currently beef does make up the majority of Amazonian deforestation, however, the second largest portion is growing animal feed primary for chickens. Switch from beef to chickens and you might risk just moving around where the deforestation comes from
Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus ( arstechnica.com )
s i n g u l a r i t y ( i.imgur.com )
New Research on Animal Communication Shows Their Cultures Are Often Complex and Cumulative ( sentientmedia.org )
Self regulation "working" as intended ( i.imgur.com )
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/08/australian-red-meat-industry-says-it-doesnt-need-to-meet-its-self-imposed-net-zero-target
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes ( www.theguardian.com )
Insult to injury ( lemmy.world )
Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too ( www.nytimes.com )
Switching to plant-based diets means cleaner air – and it could save more than 200,000 human lives around the world ( theconversation.com )
Hey there gamers ( mander.xyz )
This is an Actual Article Rule :( ( imgur.com )
https://newrepublic.com/article/160448/meat-bestiality-artificial-insemination
They're Also Awful to Human Workers Rule ( i.imgur.com )
Rule ( i.imgur.com )
https://i.imgur.com/ROudcYO.mp4
Carnivores ( mander.xyz )
8/10 adults did not realise this ( lemmy.ca )
There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook | George Monbiot ( www.theguardian.com )
the movie is titled: Six Inches of Soil
How is the hydrogen made? ( slrpnk.net )
Making an apple that tastes like a grape ( youtu.be )
TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths ( en.wikipedia.org )
Farmed Bluefin Tuna Brands Claim to Be Sustainable. Here’s What Really Happens. ( sentientmedia.org )
Is a far right rise actually something to be worried about ?
I just don't see how the far right can rise or how they can win. The odds are so stacked against them. Is this something to actually be worried about ?...
#justElsevierthings ( mander.xyz )
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2949891023010035?via=ihub
Tennessee company accused of using child labor to clean slaughterhouses ( www.reuters.com )
The Number Of Pigs Being Slaughtered In The UK Is Falling ( plantbasednews.org )
The Number Of Pigs Being Slaughtered In The UK Is Falling ( plantbasednews.org )
Estr(ule)ogen ( midwest.social )
A dead whale raises a fresh question: Should you eat lobster? ( www.washingtonpost.com )
A dead whale raises a fresh question: Should you eat lobster? ( www.washingtonpost.com )
xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2880...
Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs Vegan Diets in Identical Twins: A Randomized Clinical Trial ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov )
Tyson Promises Meatpackers Who Die From Coronavirus Will Not Go To Waste (2020) ( www.theonion.com )
Cluck, Cluck, Cluck Rule ( i.imgur.com )
He’s an Outspoken Defender of Meat. Industry Funds His Research, Files Show. ( www.nytimes.com )
More Realistic Meat Substitute Made From Soy Raised In Brutally Cruel Conditions ( www.theonion.com )
What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?
Computer related:...
Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It ( sentientmedia.org )