E. coli ascending, economy descending Are we going to survive to see the rapture when Gabriel blows his horn and heralds the battle of Armageddon?
* "...And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Failure, who called, and said:' Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.' So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face; but he said to me: 'Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end..." (Daniel 8:15-17)
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Don't eat meat--it's a filthy product if you think about it. Maybe the ancients had to eat it because it was "fast food" so to speak back when...and they were too ignorant to know how to grow anything and had neither the patience or the time to wait. Hell, they didn't even cook meat until they discovered fire.
We haven't evolved all that much if we still consider meat to be the cornerstone of our diet.
BillCole
· 1 year ago
Of course we haven't evolved much. We're a very young species, and evolution takes a long time. We evolved as omnivores who cannot survive on naturally obtainable diet that does not include some animal products although that does not necessarily mean the trimmed large muscles of domesticated mammals and poultry. Our dietary evolution also never had any reason to optimize for long life, so it is no accident that humans like to eat diets that tend to start causing fatal systemic problems in our 40's and 50's, after our value as parents would likely to be approaching zero in a natural environment.
Coupling a dietary choice to how we evolved and/or how we've not yet evolved in a simple way is usually absurd because of that: the diet that we are evolutionarily programmed to want and which will support us being more successful biologically in our first few decades is life-shortening. And it includes yummy stuff like beef and pork...
As for meat being filthy, such an argument ought to make anyone who has seen a working farm (even a small organic one) laugh. Food is filthy. Life is filthy. Most of the filth washes off or cooks to safety just fine. Your gut and my gut and any normal human gut is full of E. coli and other bacteria and yeasts battling over the leftovers of our easiest absorbtion and in some cases turning them into microbial wastes that we can then absorb. The thing that has generated the newsmaking E. coli events is that we've built a perfect environment for the development of weird microbe strains in livestock, and the *bad* E.coli has taken on a gene that seems to have originated in a Shigella virus, making it horrendously lethal to humans.
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· 1 year ago
I miss frying a hamburger. It's just not safe anymore.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Will US mortgage mess affect Asian markets? What could be the repercussions?
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Are we going to survive to see the rapture
when Gabriel blows his horn
and heralds the battle of Armageddon?
* "...And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Failure, who called, and said:' Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.' So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was terrified, and fell upon my face; but he said to me: 'Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end..." (Daniel 8:15-17)
We haven't evolved all that much if we still consider meat to be the cornerstone of our diet.
Coupling a dietary choice to how we evolved and/or how we've not yet evolved in a simple way is usually absurd because of that: the diet that we are evolutionarily programmed to want and which will support us being more successful biologically in our first few decades is life-shortening. And it includes yummy stuff like beef and pork...
As for meat being filthy, such an argument ought to make anyone who has seen a working farm (even a small organic one) laugh. Food is filthy. Life is filthy. Most of the filth washes off or cooks to safety just fine. Your gut and my gut and any normal human gut is full of E. coli and other bacteria and yeasts battling over the leftovers of our easiest absorbtion and in some cases turning them into microbial wastes that we can then absorb. The thing that has generated the newsmaking E. coli events is that we've built a perfect environment for the development of weird microbe strains in livestock, and the *bad* E.coli has taken on a gene that seems to have originated in a Shigella virus, making it horrendously lethal to humans.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039...