@RedwineChris@BBGRichie There are plenty of scientist who do speak of this. Unfortunately you'll never see them on mainstream media because a memo went out years ago that apparently the science is settled on climate change!
For most of human history, sailors did not get scurvy.
The Vikings, the Polynesians, the Inuit who travelled the Arctic, all conducted long sea voyages on diets that contained essentially no fruit and no vegetables. They did not develop scurvy because their diets contained large quantities of fresh and lightly preserved animal foods, which contain vitamin C in adequate quantities. Raw meat. Liver. Fermented meats. Fish, eaten head, eyes, and all. Whale blubber. Seal kidney.
Then in the late 1400s the great European voyages of exploration began, and an interesting thing happened. The sailors started dying. They died in numbers that defied belief. Between 1500 and 1800, scurvy killed an estimated two million sailors. More than enemy action. More than storms. More than any other cause combined.
Why?
Because the European ships had switched to provisioning with grain. The ship's biscuit became the staple. Salted pork, salted beef, dried peas, and ship's biscuit. The fresh meat and the offal and the fermented dairy that had sustained earlier seafarers was eliminated in favour of the cheapest, most calorie-dense, most shelf-stable foods the navy quartermasters could source.
The diet was technically calorically sufficient. It was nutritionally a catastrophe. Within six weeks of leaving port, the men's gums would start to bleed. Within twelve weeks, old wounds would reopen. Within sixteen weeks, men would be dying.
The cure was lemons. James Lind worked it out in 1747. The Royal Navy refused to adopt it for another forty-eight years, on cost grounds. By the time they did, hundreds of thousands more had died.
The lesson available to anyone willing to look:
A diet that removes animal foods in favour of grain-based staples will kill you. It killed entire fleets of men. The vitamin deficiencies arrive in a specific order, and the death is preventable, and the populations that ate the meat had no idea what scurvy even was, because they had never seen it.
You are now being told that grain-based diets with minimal animal foods are the healthiest option.
The sailors who died were eating exactly that diet.
Their teeth were falling out by the third week.
Have a think about who is repeating the experiment.
Ricky Gervais on 60 Minutes Makes a Crystal-Clear Case for Free Speech
He put it perfectly: the great thing about freedom of speech is that I can say what I want, and you can say you're offended, and I get to decide whether I care or not.
Because let's be honest, there's nothing you can say that someone, somewhere won't find offensive.
That's why blasphemy laws are so absurd, they're basically trying to protect an all-powerful deity from having its feelings hurt.
At the end of the day, we should be free to criticise any idea.
Just because you're offended doesn't automatically mean you're right.
Spot on, Ricky. Free speech isn't about never upsetting anyone, it's about the right to speak anyway.
๐ง๐ซ๐ฑ๐พ Capt. Ibrahim Traorรฉ.
"Look at Libya โ itโs an example right next to us.
They lived in peace, right? They lived in peace. The water was free.
There were so many free things. When people got married, they already had social benefits.
But today, Libyans are looking for water everywhereโฆ Look at the misery there is. Hundreds of thousands of children have died.
Thatโs โdemocracy.โ
Wherever they want to install democracy in the world, it ends in disaster. May God save us from this โdemocracy.โ"
@spioradnahEire@culladgh We're not sovereign sadly. A country that has to ask permission to pass its own annual budget from Brussels is not sovereign but a vassel.
@CiaranONuallain@seangclancy Ciaran, trees planted beneath power lines for decades was allowed by government and ESB Networks. Unsurprisingly, a massive storm took the whole grid down in the West in 1 night. Taxpayers will be paying for that for the next decade because of the incompetence.
@JamesKingDublin@IrishTimes Ah, a troll surfaces based in Trumpistan. Ever heard of a back road? Hard shoulders are not blocked by the protesters. If you were in Ireland you'd know that dear.
@CorkGourmetGuy January last year saw much of the West of Ireland left without power or water for over 3 weeks. Even the emergency signal for 999 went down for a few days. People actually died! Where was your outrage then? Let me guess, it didnt affect you? GFYS