Interesting history

(Jack Brien) #1

Nicely made podcast
The Basement Tapes by Revisionist History

(Chris) #2

What is it about?

(Jack Brien) #3

“A cardiologist in Minnesota searches through the basement of his childhood home for a missing box of data from a long-ago experiment. What he discovers changes our understanding of the modern American diet — but also teaches us something profound about what really matters when we honor our parents’ legacy”

(Jack Brien) #4

And here’s what the vegans think about it. So blinkered

#5

Ha! that’s funny. I haven’t read a vegan post for a while. The writer did have one thing right: we shouldn’t lump in trans fats with other non-saturated fats (though to me that means olive and avocado oil are good, and to the writer that might extend to soybean, canola and heaven knows what else…).

(Chris) #6

Luckily we can disregard what they think entirely. Basing a diet on false compassion is begging for early, diseased death. I’ll give these a listen, thanks @Jack_Brien.

#7

I think vegans are the only species of mammal that considers compassion for another species more important than their own survival.

(Chris) #8

I’m sure there must have been others. Extinct, though.

(Jack Brien) #9

I wouldn’t normally even come across stuff like that, but I might start following that Reddit for things of interest!

(Duncan Kerridge) #10

I just spent 30 minutes browsing their angst and despair. They’re a strange bunch.

(Chris) #11

I can’t go longer than about two minutes. Vegetable oil omg.

(Ronald Weaver) #12

But the thing that gets me is the fact that they only care for cute looking organisms. And especially ones that can’t disagree with them. I mean, what about bacteria ? They’re living organisms too…but just not cute enough to be spared when washing I suppose.

(Jack Brien) #13

There’s only so far you can physically go with that philosophy, one of the things that turned me away from Buddhism, apart from the worship of strange god’s.