Damn dude, you raise an impressive “please block me, your Lemmy experience will only be enhanced” argument.

due to food shortages and much more limited food variety

That is “CLEARLY explained why the study is bogus”? Get real. You revealed you don’t even know who’s behind the study. So, you demonstrate little evidence of providing valid insight and not ignorant, poorly-informed speculation. And you’re rude.

May we enjoy our separate Lemmy experiences henceforth

You don’t know what you’re talking about, and your comment sounds racist. Oxford University and Cornell University were also principally involved:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–Cornell–Oxford_Project

30 plants per week is a cool goal and a cool way of thinking about your diet

To adults who reveal an ignorant belief that cows magically make milk, dropping a hint about why cows produce milk all the time and why female humans they know do not. Hint: it’s not a difference in biology across mammalian species, it’s perpetual rape and forced impregnation and birthing.

For example, on Why are so many young men struggling with erectile dysfunction?

This is their initial comment. Does it sound like they’re expressing a personal opinion or citing scientific evidence?

There may be multiple components in fertility, but the majority of erectile dysfunction is rooted in metabolic health.

After I press them to cite some evidence for their assertion, here’s how they respond.

This is a discussion forum, everything we say is opinion, i’ve given you my perspective on the issue to the best of my ability.

This person should be a Mod for a public health community?! Good grief. What is this, the US government?

I’ve recently interacted with the newly appointed public health mod on Medicine Canada. Their scientific literacy is adequate for a commenter but not a mod

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I think the RFK Jr comparisons (unqualified, proponent pseudoscience) are apt. Most posts to publichealth@mander.xyz are credible health science information and posts about the benefits of a plant-based diet are pretty common. The person added as moderator hasn’t posted to that community recently AND - most importantly - looking at their profile they’re ALL ABOUT pseudoscience. Why one of the regular posters wasn’t appointed moderator seems odd. Is this appointment political? Otter usually makes good decisions, but this one seems very questionable. I hope credible users continue to monitor this situation. A .ca admin whiffing like this raises my antennae. It would be a big loss for us all for Lemmy to descend into a misinformation station

occupation genocide

Got a source for the Guardian no longer using AGI? Given a ‘desperately trying to convince people that AI is cool’ title like this, discontinued use seems highly unlikely

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. What a major blow to the Guardian’s credibility

I’ll have what he’s having 😜

Wow, really cool. Sounds like great progress for the industry. And it’s Canadian >.<! Good on AOL for covering this, although they should have used the “grilled cheese pull apart” test for the headline photo (copied below).

The research study was published in Physics of Fluids: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/37/1/011913/3330660/Impact-of-protein-sources-on-the-functionality-of

Here’s a popular press summary from the journal’s publisher: Just as Gouda: Improving the Quality of Cheese Alternatives

Startpage (search engine) displays results from TMDB. It looks like it might be decent: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/33602-temple-grandin

Tanks :) I’ll check it out

Unfortunately, no, I’m not aware of any alternate platform to imdb. I use Wikipedia for movie info, but it doesn’t have fan/ user reviews, etc.

May I ask what movie? imdb is amazon, which I don’t support

I don’t really avoid non-vegan food topics because they’re triggering to me. I might have for the first 6 months or so I was vegan, when my newfound vegan anguish or vystopia was really fresh.

But now, seeing someone eat meat or talk about how much they like meat products doesn’t affect me much. I know that 100 million or so sentient beings are being killed each and every day after being confined to cramped, cruel, and unhygienic environments all their lives - and it’s killing the planet and causing humans to be on cardio metabolic drugs all their lives. All of this is propped up and protected by big money through ag-gag laws, government subsidies, ridiculous advertising budgets, and lobbying against vegan meats.

I find it saddening to be around chicken restaurants, because I know chickens are treated very inhumanely. I dislike any imaging of say a chicken offering up a bucket of fried chicken.

I avoid talking about non-vegan food and being in non-vegan-friendly environments because I don’t want to participate in those types of events. I might have a good amount of things in common with someone who’s non-vegan, but talking to them about meat focuses our interaction on things I don’t share with them at all and in fact think less of them for it (e.g., what is behind their daily cruelty to sentient beings - unintelligence, denial, a desire to fit in). Often some guilt or defensiveness in them upon learning that I don’t share their indifference to the suffering of non-human animals is the first thing that’s noticeable. I’ll steer conversations back to things we have in common.

People who are genuinely curious about eating less non-human animal products have very different vibes. And I always try to welcome them where they’re at.

Mmmmm, plant-based cake collection

It’s a form of ‘othering’, which is an attempt to portray something (we don’t associate with) as fundamentally different or alien.

It probably stems from their cognitive dissonance, as in you’re eating cruelty-free and they’re not, so it helps them resolve any mental tension about their cruelty-containing diet by painting yours as strange.

If I were in your shoes, I’d sort out what I make of their behaviour. Are they good-naturedly adjusting to a family member making a lifestyle change or are they trolling. If I felt they were trolling, I’d do the opposite of what they’re doing. I would insist on labelling everything that is naturally vegan, “A vegan [food item, like watermelon]” and correct them each time, etc. To push it a step further, which would likely be too trolling for my tastes, call non-vegan things something like “animal cruelty [food item, like pumpkin break]”

Being vegan - interacting with omnivores and their denialism, projections, etc. - gets much easier with time.

Edit: Another approach would be to non-judgementally ask them about it, which might help them discover their own motivations and feelings around the issue. “I notice you’re prefixing, and I’d like to understand why you feel the need to do that better. Can you tell me a little more about what’s going on for you?”

Great write up, very clear! Fediverse for the win here 😎

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