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San Francisco, 2:28 PM
Thu Dec 10
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One criticism of diets high in animal proteins is that we eat the animals who have to eat a large amount of vegetation which is wasteful as opposed to just eating the vegetation.
Farmed fish are not as popular amongst environmentalist as you might think. Salmon, for instance, have been accused of affecting the population of wild salmon, being more contaminated (with PCB's for instance) since there dietmay be contaminated and they don't range as wide and are not as rich in Omega-3 FA's as wild.
Funny, now this post looks like one where somebody complains that wind power turbines kill migrating birds.
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Well, the good news is farming vegetation under the sea is a kinch, the japanese have been doing it for centuries. Hawaiian tourists may not have a taste for it though.
As for the under sea protein farming, it's true, the current methods involve such massive levels of growth hormones and waste material that fish farms need to move every few years because the area around them is too poisonous to continue growing fish in. I hope somebody figures that out properly one of these days.
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There was an oyster farm by my old summer cabin, and as such I can happily say they require no artificial feed like salmon farms do, and are just as simple to maintain. I guess there's a fair bit of hope after all.
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Better than seaweed, I guess.
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Most farmed fish tastes pretty nasty, too.
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Gotta agree on the King salmon. I avoid most farmed fish - just too bland for me.
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That's good since the islands will probably be underwater anyway in a few decades.
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Depending on the source, the real unemployment rate is probably between 18-20%.
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Just out of curiosity, any idea what happened up there in this span?
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They've had incentive since gas rose two years ago to $4.00 plus a gallon and never went back down to $1.25 a gallon.
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This raises the question of whether the president is really where the buck ends.
My (admittedly poor) knowledge of the American political system tells me that the president doesn't actually make the final decision on everything. There are the Congress and the Senate as well.
Regardless, the point is that 8 years of the Bush administration's continuous blundering and inexcusable warring is the cause of our situation today.
My recollection is that by the end of Clinton's second term, the US had a surplus in the trillions. By the end of Bush's second term, the US was in the mess it is now.
It's that simple.
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Congress is the body that voted to deregulate the financial institutions so they could make the bad loans. Yes Bush didn't make that call, but he could have Vetoed the bill. Bush is also in charge of choosing those that control the Regulators that were left.
While I feel personally that this is the fault of deregulation that has been occurring for the last 25 years (and all of the administrations during that time) being the one "On Watch" when the event happens means something.
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You may not even live in USA so you may not care, but I find a lot of people who live here who don't know this.
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Reagan's pro-corporation programs are at the core. Deregulation ( some was good ), anti-union, private equity run amok, CEO compensation run rampant, these pull investment dollars out of the companies The inequity of wage increases leave the majority stagnant.
Isn't this the same guy that wanted to save money in school lunches by saying ketchup was a vegetable?
They talk about the poor insurance companies suffering at the hands of the public option.
Letting corporations act as if they had the same rights that individual Americans do.
We've reached the tipping point on the scale but there has to be so much more pain for people to really demand change.
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what's the definition of insanity again?
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@Barnabus: straw man
this is going to be fun! first person to post an actual point devoid of logical falacies wins a prize!
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There is no temporal nor causitive connection between the unemployment rates shown, and the perceived "europeanness" of adopted economic policies.
Further, your initial statement is itself based on a logical fallacy, namely Questionable Cause. As well, your latest post is, itself, built upon an Appeal to Spite fallacy.
Thank you for your time.