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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
Written by: dreamWritten by: my last post
, unlike the situation on land, where most autotrophs are plants, phytoplankton are a diverse groupWritten by: Jeff
A significant part of the diet of oysters is detritus composed of, or originally fed by green algae, a member of the plant kingdom, and a constitutive part of plankton
These two quotes say a similar thing. Some phytoplankton are plants some are not. Some of an oysters food (or the source of its food's food) will be plant based. Some will not. So to return to my question
How many plants does it take to feed an oyster?
The answer is a number between zero and many. The amount is indeterminable unless you either monitor the entire oyster's life (and its food life, and its food's food's life etc etc) or get an honest answer from it (I have failed at this, maybe you've had more success, what's the secret technique I've been missing).
The point is that it is generally unwise to draw a definite, fixed and universal line based on indeterminate and unprovable evidence. Doing so just ends up leading to sillyness such as contemplating the indeterminable amount of suffering caused by eating an oyster.
Written by: dreamWritten by: jeff
That a moral code seems "unfair" for being easier to apply in affluent contries is irrelevent to it's validity
This is a point of metaphysical contention regarding the possibility of a set of universal, transcendental and objective morals. You contend that morals exist outside of context - as religious doctrines have done with great popularity throughout history. I contend that morals are products of a specific historical evolutionary process, and have been conditioned by a myriad of factors throughout the course of said history. To me, morals are not a set of abstract and universal concepts - especially if those concepts confer a lower level of morality upon the global poor - but should be practical means of ethical living which will vary from person to person, and from community to community.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
Written by: onewheeldave
The question of what would happen if most meat was raised organically is somewhat hypothetical- however, precedent shows that if it were to be the case, then organic does not necessarily=non-suffering.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
Written by: Sym
jeff, can you expand on that please? Non-organic farming results in the destruction of ecosystems, so I don't see how you can use that as an argument for or against either method.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Written by: faithinfire
let me rephrase what i said with previous clauses about being in wisconsin, but the vegitarians were very sickly looking-that i knew. if the diet makes you look unhealthy, then something is missing.
i'm sure it can be suplimented with pill or a reorganization of diet, but some do not do that. many had health problems
but anyways...that has just been my experience
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
Written by: Little_Miss_Nebula
Plants react to the atmosphere around them eg music, smells, people talking.
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Written by: Pele
That being said, if I wasn't meant to eat meat, my body wouldn't be built to do so.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Written by: wiki article
In humans, typically half of stored creatine originates from food (mainly from meat and fish). However, endogenous synthesis of creatine in the liver is sufficient for normal activities. This is evidenced by the fact that, even though vegetables do not contain creatine, vegetarians do not suffer from creatine deficiency.
"You can't outrun Death forever.
But you can make the Bastard work for it."
--MAJOR KORGO KORGAR,
"Last of The Lancers"
AFC 32
Educate your self in the Hazards of Fire Breathing STAY SAFE!
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Written by: Birgit
Pele, your post reminds me of stories of children eating wallpaper because it had elements not present in their diet, or women of an African tribe eating soil because it contained essential metals (zinc or aluminium, can't remember which one) they didn't get enough of during pregnancy. Basically, your body knows what it needs, so it often will go for "weird" foods during times when it needs them. Too tired to find a link right now, but I did read that choccie cravings during periods for example are to do with iron deficiency and subside if you eat more meat. (hop-discussion-forums-disclaimer, not saying anyone should eat more meat because of that...)
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
Written by: myself. Published in November.
3. The Atkins diet, representing all one-sided diets. In the world.
I’ll get to the point with this one or I will rant on for pages. There is nothing wrong with carbs. The most important biochemical reactions in our bodies are based on carbohydrates and how to get energy from them. It’s what the whole breathing and oxygen thing is all about. If you eat more calories than you burn, you will get fat. It won’t matter if they are carbs, fat, or protein.
If you eat only protein and fat, your body will burn those, of course. Part of them will go into the “gluconeogenesis”, a process in which the deprived body makes the carbs you don’t feed it. And if someone ever praises that “light feeling” they get during the Atkins diet, this is a mix of being hypoglycaemic, and poisoning the body with ketones and acids which lower your pH, hence the term “ketoacidosis”. It’s a symptom in diseases such as untreated diabetes.
But go on ahead and do it to yourselves, and buy “low carb diet chocolate bars” containing 17% glycerol that other, more-sensible-than-you women would only get into their body in the form of lubricants.
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Written by: Pele
Truth be told, I am tired of hearing the "because it's cruel" line. So is the production of cotton clothes and of junk food, and many supposedly "organic" foods. I am of the opinion that this is much like religion, sexuality and politics, make your choice and do it. Eat meat or don't. I don't need to know about it unless I am cooking for you.
My point is that if we were not meant to eat meat, as many vegs that I know have pointed out, my body would not be designed to do so.
According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
"God *was* my co-pilot, but then we crashed, and I had to eat him..."
Written by: Birgit
not to be taken entirely seriously since the main point of the article was to make people laugh.
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)
Owner of Dragosani's left half
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed