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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You’re right. When times got hard, the dog became dinner.

    I raised all my own food for a few years and fully understand the horror of having to kill to eat. It’s never pretty, despite all the arguments I can make about health of the herd, culling only the weak, and giving them the best lives they could hope for.

    I find the vegan arguments weak, though too. Every day we are discovering new levels of feelings and intelligence in life and that goes down to plants, too. It’s a harsh reality that in order to exist, you must make something else not exist… and unless we change something dramatically it’s never going away.

    All this is why I’m cautiously optimistic about lab grown meat. It could turn this whole thing on its head.






  • Sugar is a primary source of food for the bacteria that make up plaque. If you feed the bacteria, they will grow. As you can’t eliminate 100% of the sugar from your diet, teeth care is always going to be required. Less sugar, however, means, slower growth.

    Also. Just like dogs have dental chews that help to clean their teeth, eating other non sugar foods can assist with controlling plaque. Vegetables in particular are helpful, but even something like chewing on beef jerky acts as a sort of scrub brush for the outside of the teeth.