It's disappointing how many smart people still think the average person will or even can exercise hard enough to make up for eating the status quo health wrecking diets.
It's even more disappointing how many people think salad is a reasonable recommendation to the obese.
Yeah man. I honestly didn't even know about this phenomenon until I moved to California and the orange rubber covers on the older Dell server power supply release latches were melting and dripping into the floor into the most disgusting "bro that isn't gum" smelling goop in the world. I never saw this happen one time in Georgia. But maybe I am simply retarded.
Either way, sometimes I think California is some kind of higher floor of hell where things are out of scope and biblical. I'd never seen so much mold and heard so many people complaining about it before moving out here either. Do I even need to mention the 3 months of non stop flooding rain that happens occasionally (or the more common 2 weeks of non stop flooding raid), or the fires (probably operations tbh), or the building destroying winds, or the 120 F heat, or the earthquakes?
Not to mention this desert I live in smells like sweaty butt all the time and just going outside for an hour basically requires a shower upon entering the house before relaxing.
eh... so yeah... logitech mice...
So, let me try to shortly explain the cycle, so that my explanation makes more sense.
Rancher breeds his cow. Little less than a year later, he has a calf. Calf stays with the cow for up to half a year, before it’s time for the calf to go start doing it’s own thing. It’s at that point, a rancher usually has to decide for the females at least, which ones are staying home to become future cows, and which ones are going to go with the steers and become burgers.
If they stay home to be a cow, they’re not making you any money till their first calf is sold which is 2-3 years away, so the more you keep, the less money you have coming in on the short term. It also means the more money you’re going to be putting out in feed, vet bills, etc as well. But you also have to keep some, to keep your herd size steady.
If they’re going to be sold/meat, you still have a 6-12mo span till they’re gone and you have some coins in your pocket.
Now, fun things that make this painfully long cycle more fun:
1. weather/drought/floods/bad winters
2. the fact that the EPA has squeezed most of the small feedlots out (where you send the animals to for their high caloric intake before becoming meat which is what happens to most of them), meaning that transport costs are higher, and windows and the size of windows to get your animal in are smaller
3. USDA/EPA/FDA pressure on small butchers/packers, so that for most people the only option is selling the animals to a big feedlot because they have deals to get them in to the big packers, or trying to navigate that yourself
4. Market conditions. Remember all the scares we’ve had around the world with beef? Mad Cow and all that? Well, that’s something COOL (country of origin labeling) was supposed to help with. We slap labels on everything else for where it comes from, why not our beef?
Does Argentina make some decent beef? Yes. Is the quality and safety of their market as a whole remotely comparable to ours? Not a chance. Their bottom end is terrible and dangerous. Last 20 years, I can’t count how many times other nations have stopped imports of their beef for periods *because* of these issues.
So aside from temporary relief of consumer prices (which I’m not sure how that helps ranchers? no one has made a convincing argument it would that I’ve seen), there are other risks about doing some more bulk importing of foreign beef.
If people get sick from it, and we get another scare, that’s going to hurt our ranchers more than theirs, especially because they won’t know where it came from.
With the damn near monopoly we have with packers, who have fought against COOL for years, we’re going to be trusting them with making sure there is no cross contamination? Or issues with labeling? The same ones who’ve lobbied and fought to put us in this problem?
All Trump is doing, is giving a short term potential win for the consumer, with a massive amount of potential long term risks, and feeding more profit to the exact same giant bullies who have helped cause this mess.
It’s a complex issue, there is no easy button solution, and the easy button carries far more risk than people are talking about.
@BeardOhShit I thank God for leading me to the carnivore diet and preventing me from caring about gourmget cooking and the myriad insane plant eater behaviors that dominate it.