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 He isnt only for smokes. Glaz had been showing up a lot more, in fact I use him quite a bit, his recent changes made him more viable. In either case, I would rather use him for protection against flashes and Ying, which actually has powerful candela meta. No, he is easy to play. The problem is that he is to situational and he was made for a meta that no longer exists. Thats what makes him bad. How often do people throw down smokes anymore and nobody plays glaz because hes horrible to push anything with. I feel he shouldn’t have to be still for the smoke to see through, as a buff. It makes sense for glaz because he’s a sniper and has to be still to snipe (at least irl), but warden. Buy It:  Vip Pig People Should Seriously Stop Expecting Normal From Me We All Know Its Never Going To Happen Shirt

It should be added as a part of his ability. Juat like capitao and zofia have 2 types of granades warden could switch from the glasses to smokes or maybe and flashes(giving him only flashes woudnt feel secret service ). It could be done in a really slick way too. The concept is that the "special smoke granades" are embebed into the sidw of the glasses, so he just touches them and the smokes shoot out or deploys them via the watch. Just make it so smokes gas nades are consistent and can reliably be used to block off lines of sight. Smoke has been underperforming for a while now on graphs (ever since smg11 nerf) and warden is... warden. If you want to be able to do pines of sight you have to be careful as warden not to go in gas and it takes two operators. Buy It:    Top We Wear Mask So We Can Have Volleyball Season Shirt

 So, you’ll have attackers using nade to burn ADS and Frisbees first, then it’s gonna be a giant standoff every round with smoke/flash/smoke/flash, everyone’s fucking blind, people trying to prefire smokes, possibly shooting their own teammates in the process.... People killing teammates in process of prefiring into smoke? That cannot happen until you decide to shut off your team HUD or a teammate runs infront of ur aim. Each smoke grenade lasts only 6 seconds so at max you will be wastinf 12 seconds. Combined with smoke who wastes 30 sec max in perfect situations. It isnt much hard to counter a guy peeking into smoke if you drone properly. So it wudnt make warden that strong. IQ is comfort pick at every rank aswell. Buy It:  Super Whisky Because 2020 Sucks Shirt

You can easily counter warden with smokes by using IQ. She is picked most of rounds at gold-pro level so it wudnt be so hard to counter warden. She can literally headshot him through wall or prefire around corner whenever warden decides to smoke a door and peek it. Warden is not bad operator. He is a situational counter pick. Theres over 50 operators and 5 spots available. You are going to see more and more niche operators fill in the gaps of the gameplay mechanics as time goes on. Impact blue smokes because in attacking you choose when you peek and have time, but on defending the attackers will peek you. If they aren’t impact smokes attackers will run. Buy It:    So A Wise Woman Once Said Im Getting A Chihuahua And She Lived Happily Ever After Flower Shirt

Capitão without possibly getting themselves killed, but a warden who used his M590A1 could’ve shot out the hatch and the floor above Kitchen, using the advantage of being able to see through smoke, warden can easily shoot through one of the holes with his SMG-12 killing Capitão, by then Gridlock wouldn’t know what happened and the Warden could’ve gotten away, giving roamers enough time to flank around through trophy room, even better Warden could’ve used his nitro to take out both. Warden isn’t meant to be a rusher or a roamer, he’s meant to be an anchor like smoke and mute, using vertical gameplay to their advantage and holding very tight angles. Even without Warden's ability to see through smokes, having a defender decide the tide of a fight through smokes with attackers having no way to play against this is just a terrible decision. Buy It:    Pro Strong Girl Face Mask Im An August Girl I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Gives Me Strenghth Shirt

I'd like to see his glasses highlight drones, but only if they are within line of sight. That means Warden can also act as light drone denial, but you still have the opportunity to hide drones under and above objects to avoid detection. Something like the glaz thermal sight, but for drones, would be neat. It’s an attacker gadget, it’s an overlap Ubi doesn’t want, and you are playing warden completely wrong, he’s supposed to be played vertically and to stop pushes. Let me give a scenario, a Gridlock has just locked off kitchen on Chalet, has smoked both entrances, and Capitão has smoked himself and has started to plant. This doesn’t allow roamers enough time to get in. Buy It:    Premium Wine Because 2020 Sucks Shirt

I always felt a charge system would be best. Like 3 charges on a refresh. When a flash goes off it eats one of the charges, no need to press anything it just happens. You can choose to activate a charge instantly to let you see through smoke for a couple seconds. Won't this result in the same gameplay loop they wanted to get away from with Glaz? "The smoke is up, I need to just hide." Having counters to this sort of dead-stop gameplay loop isn't enough. The loop itself is the issue, it's not fun to interact with. I think this is problematic from an attacker communication perspective- so far, defender effects and attacker effects are entirely separate, i.e., attackers and defenders have entirely unique sets of equipment. Having overlap means that you are never sure if a smoke grenade was thrown by a friendly or an enemy. Buy It:    Premium Heavy Equipment Operator Because Engineers Need Heroes Too Shirt

Unfortunately, the reason why more people don't rebut these kinds of things is because it takes time and effort to do so, and this sadly requires funding to accomplish if you're not independently wealthy. As a decidedly not independently wealthy person, I simply do not have the free time available to replicate reviews that have already been done multiple times. If I were to do such a review, it might convince those that know me, my character, and my attention to detail; but honestly, no one else would listen. It would just be yet another critique of the China Study, and there are all too many of those already. As a short list, here are a few peer-reviewed articles specifically attacking claims made in the China Study (which, by the way, is itself not peer-reviewed), Buy It:    Official Pug I Hate Morning People And Mornings And People Vintage Retro Shirt

 This is called the cooking hypothesis, or more specifically the cooked starch hypothesis. It sounds feasible for someone without any knowledge of anthropology, biology, or nutrition. However if you investigate it even just a bit closer, it completely falls apart, because it is inconsistent with many observations. Human brain size started to increase 2+ million years ago. Even the most permissive evidence for cooking leaves a 1+ million year gap unexplained. Widespread grain consumption, that you would need to sustain an entire population reliant on cooked starch, is merely a few 10k years old. Human brain development is dependent on nutrients found in animal products: Preformed EPA and DHA, choline, carnitine, creatine, phospholipids, and of course vitamin B12 at the very least. Buy It:   I May Be Old But I Was A Carpenter When It Was Cool Skull Shirt

Especially carnivore, since it's basically 95% fat and protein. It is basically exactly what the body needs to go into very low insulin fat burning mode. Unless the person is eating something crazy like 4 lbs of meat per day. Then more of that is getting converted into glucose. Pigs are clever, but there probably isn't much, if any, meta-cognition going on. They're not aware of their own mortality. They're certainly capable of perceiving pain. Any animal is. But pain perception is not the same as suffering. There probably isn't an awareness in the pig thinking, "Uh, this sucks. I wish I wasn't experiencing this. Humans and other apes, dolphins and maybe elephants are probably the only animals capable of this level of cognition. Buy It:    Brooms Are For Amateurs Skull Sunset Halloween Shirt

 All the meat-eaters, including ferrets, killer whales, and humans, reached that point of brain development earlier than herbivores or omnivores, the researchers found. They classified humans as carnivores based on the percentage of meat in the typical human diet and despite the moderate meat consumption of Homo sapiens, humans fit the prediction of time to weaning based on fully specialized carnivores. I’m a doctor and It always terrifies me when I hear that a child’s been vegan all their life. My superiors always tell me to hold my tongue. I’m thankful that I live in Europe where we have saner laws about vitamin labelling. The parents who are vegan, usually, are anti -vax as well, but not all. Everyone ain the hospital I work at agreed with me that vegan diets are not suitable for children. Buy It:  I'm Not Fat I'm Just So Freakin Fluff It Overflows Catbird Shirt

You mention how many of the studies are corrupt because of who is sponsoring them - but the most powerful companies / the ones with the most money / government connections are those within the industries we are talking about - and most likely, your studies have a lot of bias in them as well. (After all, At one point, cigarettes were shown to be healthy as well) I just think it’s important to keep in mind. According to this study looking at the stomach acid of 68 species, humans are in the top 10 of strongest stomach acid, in same range as obligate carnivores and scavengers, this is metabolically expensive… Heard some argue that we likely started eating meat by scavenging. Buy It:    Excellent If At First You Don't Succeed Usaf Security Forces Is Not For You Shirt

 I’m an environmental scientist - eating livestock is absolutely more environmentally detrimental than being vegan. You are also discounting the potential use of vertical farms when it comes to space/water needed. Also, just because the animals are eating “undesirable” parts of plants/animals - does not mean it couldn’t be going towards compost / also, the gas produced from compost can be harvested for energy use. Furthermore - it’s important to consider that animals are spreading diseases (this current pandemic for one), but also - when there’s a recall on spinach because it’s been contaminated from E. coli - it’s coming from the animals. So, not that I think veganism is the answer - but this point in your argument just doesn’t make sense to me. Buy It:  Cute Never Under Estimate A Woman Who Loves -wolves Sunset Shirt (1)

I’ve been to countries where HALF of the menu at almost every restaurant is meat/dairy free and equally priced - these are countries whose governments subsidize fruits and veggies as much as they do cash crops like wheat, corn, and sugar. Regardless, It should not be this expensive to eat a plant based diet - and that’s on your government, not the people preaching veganism. It’s putting a huge burden on the healthcare system, and everyone in America at least, should be eating way more fresh produce - and this needs to change - i just think the point you’re making about veganism being too expensive should be re-routed to a non vegan argument because it’s a serious problem (I would do some research on food deserts) Buy It:    Cute Never Under Estimate A Woman Who Loves -wolves Sunset Shirt

Participants on a low-carbohydrate diet had more favorable overall outcomes at 1 year than did those on a conventional diet. Weight loss was similar between groups, but effects on atherogenic dyslipidemia and glycemic control were still more favorable with a low-carbohydrate diet after adjustment for differences in weight loss. Modest favorable trends in triacylglycerol and HDL-cholesterol concentrations were observed with higher fat intakes. They clearly confirm that carbohydrate restriction leads to an improvement in atherogenic lipid states in the absence of weight loss or in the presence of higher saturated fat. In distinction, low fat diets seem to require weight loss for effective improvement in atherogenic dyslipidemia Buy It:    Beautiful October Girl I Will Never Apologize For Standing For My Flag Shirt

A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD. More data are needed to elucidate whether CVD risks are likely to be influenced by the specific nutrients used to replace saturated fat. Public health emphasis on reducing SFA consumption without considering the replacement nutrient or, more importantly, the many other food-based risk factors for cardiometabolic disease is unlikely to produce substantial intended benefits. We conclude that major weight loss was associated with a late rise in serum cholesterol, possibly from mobilization of adipose cholesterol stores, which resolved when weight loss ceased Buy It:  Attractive Defying Gender Roles Dad Dont Baby Sit It Called Parenting Vintage Retro Shirt

Replacing saturated fat with carbohydrates increases small, dense LDL particles, shifts to an overall atherogenic lipid profile, and increases incidence of diabetes and obesity. Replacing saturated fat with omega 6 polyunsaturated fats increases risk of cancer, increases risk of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular events, and death to heart disease and overall. The results show that dietary and plasma saturated fat are not related, and that increasing dietary carbohydrate across a range of intakes promotes incremental increases in plasma palmitoleic acid, a biomarker consistently associated with adverse health outcomes. We observed a significant relationship between added sugar consumption and increased risk for CVD mortality. Buy It:    Top Never Underestimate An Old Man Who Loves Shooting Sport And Was Born In November Sunset Shirt

 Cholesterol is used for numerous important processes in the body: cell membrane integrity and fluidity regulation (again, special emphasis on neural membranes) and synthesis of vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, sexual hormones, mineralocorticoids, and glucocorticoids, all of which have relevance to brain function. I therefore hypothesize that decreased cholesterol production on vegan or low fat diets could at least partly explain the changes in vitamin D, coenzyme Q10, and hormonal status. If this is true, it could imply changes in brain function as well. Parallel this to the side effect profile of statins. Even marginal protein dietary deficiency, when coupled with a carbohydrate-rich diet, depresses cerebral glucose utilization to a degree often seen in metabolic encephalopathies. Buy IT:  Sweet Never Underestimate An Old Man Who Loves Table Football Sunset Shirt

As we have seen previously, vegans lack at least EPA and DHA. Those on very low fat diets might lack other fatty acids as well. I highly doubt de novo lipogenesis produces the same fatty acid profile as a well balanced diet, but I would love to see a study on it. A different fatty acid profile could potentially change brain phospholipid composition. However it is doubtful that we will ever see a study on the differences of veg*an and omnivore brain phospholipid composition. Most notably, neural membranes love DHA bound Phosphatidylcholine and Phosphatidylserine, but there are plenty of other fatty acids present in the brain, saturated, monounsaturated, and omega 3 or 6 polyunsaturated alike. Buy It:    Cool Never Underestimate An Old Man Who Loves Hockey And Was Born In October Sunset Shirt

He pointed out that I am uninitiated and do not belong in the Church Of The Indoctrinated. He then accused me of foul necromancy and commanded me to reveal my scrolls and tomes. His priest brothers gathered around us and started to smite me. I fled to save my undeath, and spent 3 days of my eternal death to collect our most prized scrolls and tomes to unleash upon the foolish priests, and to bring back the sister from death. So, my dear lich and undead brethren, I present to you the fruits bacon of my 3-day search for spells against foolish priests, knight templars and evangelists. If any of you expert necromancers deem that a scroll or tome should be included in the collection.. Buy It:   Cool Never Underestimate An Old Man Who Loves Cricket And Was Born In September Sunset Shirt

I highlighted that Campbell is a vegan who lets his personal beliefs interfere with what little scientific integrity he has. I offered the work of Denise Minger and others in debunking The China Study. I listed some nutrients that veg*ans are more likely to be missing. And finally I warned him that diets high in carbohydrates and low in fat are dangerous, and his sister should include healthy oils in her diet. His sister is trying to go on an unsupplemented 80/10/10 vegan diet, and refuses to listen to anyone except T. Colin Campbell, a sorry excuse of a researcher and author of The China Study. So naturally he seeked help to reason with his sister. Buy IT:    Premium Peace Love Sewciopath Hand Heart Lady Sull Shirt

 OP, are you interested in collaborating to synthesise some of these facts into more infographic types of media? More widely, is anyone else interested in trying to distil some of these facts down into infographics and easily consumable (aesthetic) graphs? So anyway, let's jump to the pitch. I've been thinking recently that I need to make counter-propaganda that sets the record straight. I've been wanting to learn some infographic and image creation type skills for a while and I think this will be my excuse/motivation to learn. I got harassed today by a fairly rude vegan who apparently lurks on this sub, and tried to argue that ethical philosophers' consensus is that veganism is "correct/good" for most ethical systems. I'd love to see more details that rebuke that angle. Buy It:  You Have The Power To Say This Is Not How My Story Ends Lady Roses Shirt

Does anyone else think that industries and electricity producers are contributing to the spread of the vegan movement as a sort of distraction from the main cause (them) of global warming? Manipulation and bullying has seen a large amount of unexpected success due to the coincidental correlation between "artsy types" and veganism. What I'm saying is that veganism is having a larger impact than expected (despite blatantly lying nearly 100% of the time) because vegans churn out so many infographics, pictures and other relatively easily consumable media - as apposed to your glorious wall of well thought out, heavily cited text. Buy It:    We're More Than Just Boxing Friends We're Like A Really Small Gang Flamingo Shirt

Maybe bits of the above could be useful in the development of the well organized work you've done already. The vegan mindset of some of the population is utterly surreal if they imagine that that they can have a modern privileged lifestyle, clean water to drink and bathe in. They enjoy the convenience of food and supplement safety in those products they use in their "what I eat in a day" videos. Just not possible without use of animal products. Get realistic. Support those sources that take good care of the critters we need in order to have our modern lifestyles. Sorry for the book! (edited to fix a few typos).  Buy It:    Top Viking World Tour 793 1066 Boat Shirt

 Outbreaks such as recalls of packaged food such as prewashed lettuce and other veggies... even food from a restaurant... remember water is used in the washing and packaging process -- a minute speck of infectious material can contaminate hundreds of packages. I've heard the arguments that it always comes from animal contamination. Nope. It doesn't have to come from animal poo or whatevers, At restaurants contamination in the improperly cleaned equipment, a batch of old food, or contamination from someone who handled cash or even an aerosol that enters the restaurant. Ice machines and self serve areas such as covered food or salad bars which often have scoopers where people. Buy IT:  This Is My Scary Hairstylist Costume Ghost Pumpkin Halloween Shirt

 Public water is usually tested every two weeks, more or less, to be sure the water is safe to drink and bathe in. Even public surface water is tested. (lakes and rivers, etc) Here are some recent results for surface water testing. Color coding, red means it's really bad. Yellow is also unacceptible. Some of the coliforms come from areas where homeless people encamp, don't have or don't care to use public toilets --- use sidewalks that drain into gutters or other run off. Some use buckets that are emptied which end up in surface water where people wade into the water, or boat and fish; children and their dogs swim. Not a good thing to have this degree of contamination going on while COVID-19 is spreading since poop can be infectious. Buy IT:  This Is How I Social Distance Rowing In The Sunset Shirt

 In public safety for example, in daily living, public water has to be tested for coliforms which requires animal based nutrient media in petri dishes. In order to grow and speciate coliforms to do the 'counts', coliforms require nutrition to thrive in artificial situations, such as a laboratory. Here's a page that mentions a bit on this matter including the types of animal based nutrient used. This was mentioned in vaccines for example, but I wanted to add some detail. I'm not a writer by any means, so this is a rambling thing and based on my working experiences in diagnostic pathology in medical technology.  Buy It:      The Soul Of A Witch The Fire Of A Lioness The Heart Of A Hippie The Mouth Of A Sailor Lady Shirt

 They stopped eating as much of a wide balanced diet for nutrients (greens, goya, seaweed, roots, fresh fish, and the occasional shredded pig), and started eating more highly processed canned food, spam, rice/flour, and so forth. There are good things to be said of their old diet. They're a relatively more impoverished region of Japan, but at least there's less stress and the houses are cheaper. They also have a custom of only eating until you're "8/10th full," which has prevented them from becoming as fat and developing those cardiovascular diseases. So vegans aren't completely wrong, but there are also other factors for why Okinawans had a long life. Buy It:  That's What I Do I Drink Wine And Ride My Broomstick Flamingo Halloween Shirt

 Some more food for thought: if humans stopped eating cows, chickens, and pigs, what would then happen to these newly-freed animals? Most likely, they’d get eaten by a wolf instead. Or succumb to a nasty disease. Nature’s a harsh mistress; animals in the wild live harsher lives and both suffer and inflict much more agonizing deaths than their pasture-raised, humanely-slaughtered cohorts. Everything dies eventually — so considering this, which way is really more humane? My understanding is Okinawa's life span is falling in part because after the war they started eating more of the Japanese diet which includes more rice (carbohydrates) and sugary drinks (soda. Buy It:  Get In Loser We Are Avoiding Coronavirus Unicorn Shirt

I’m not talking about factory farming here. I don’t think anyone truly disputes that factory farms are unfathomably and heart-wrenchingly cruel, as well as environmentally catastrophic (though monocrops are also devastating to the environment on an existential level, but vegans always gloss over this for some reason). Rather, I’m talking about family-owned, small-scale, organic farms with pasture-raised livestock. They do exist; I’ve been to a few, and they’re where I get my meat from. If more vegans would acknowledge that intent matters when farming animals, then I’d gladly concede that intent matters when farming plants. Buy It:    Funny Soul Of A Witch Heart Of A Dragon Lady Shirt

 So, if a farmer* raises a cow on a pasture, feeds it grass, gives it a long and pleasant life, and humanely slaughters it, it’s always wrong. But slicing, dicing, and crushing hundreds of field rodents while tilling the soil to grow the soybeans that will be made into tofu patties is either perfectly fine or acceptable collateral damage. I’d be more willing to accept this argument if vegans applied it consistently, across the board. One of the articles of faith in Veganism is that killing an animal is always wrong, regardless of reason or intent. Veganism while not giving humanely-sourced animal produce the same benefit of doubt. It strikes me as very disingenuous (not you personally, but in a more general sense). Buy It:  Fill Your House With Stacks Of Books In All The Crannies And All The Nooks Shirt

Thing is, if they were consistent about inflicting the least harm possible, that’d be one thing. Then I’d accept that argument. But the absolutism is what kills it — to them, eating beef from even one grass-fed, pasture-raised cow is unacceptable, yet hundreds of field mice and gophers getting sliced and crushed by the farm machinery harvesting their plants is acceptable (and this happens regardless of whether a plant farm grows plants for livestock or for humans). I pointed out this inconsistency to them, and it seemed to catch them off guard (for a second, anyway, before they started shouting). Buy It:    Every Snack You Make Every Meal You Bake Every Bite You Take I'll Be Watching You Dog Shirt

Actually, I would also include a whole new section about the socioeconomic aspects of Veganism: that basically only wealthy people can afford to go vegan, and for most of the world, animal products are essential to their diets and livelihoods (and saying otherwise is, frankly, their privilege talking). Great job! One thing I didn’t see: the fact that so many field animals are killed each year for plant farming. Yet those deaths are seen as “acceptable” despite the obvious hypocrisy of such a stance. I'm sure they'd be in favor of farming with as little casualties as possible. But it's the livestock industry that sets the demand not vegans. Buy It:    Camping Rules Wake Up Smiling Relax And Sit By The Fire Eat Smores Enjoy Nature Smell The Flower Thankful Make Memories Shirt

 You should debate Vegan Gains on the ethical and health principles of veganism. Your clearly well read, and discussion with him you'd reach out to vegans, and just get them to think more critically. I can't get behind that. Gains seems like a legit sociopath, definitely a misanthrope and usually a troll. He's not in it to get to the bottom of things, he's in it for the views and income from that. By that metric veganism is worse for the environment than eating meat and Vegans that like to party and eat out are the worst. Watch them logic leap out of that one. What would be better, an uploaded .pdf or a pastebin.com link? Should the footnotes be at the bottom of the page or under each point? Buy It:  Awesome Nice Butt Turtle Shirt

Praise GOD. What an amazing piece of work you have here! I escaped veganism recently and treated myself to a brisket dinner just last night. After reading this copypasta, my meat-eating soul is saved forever. Thank you. Depending on the animal they may also live longer on average than their wild counterparts. I raise meat rabbits and in the wild those generally don't live to sexual maturity (which is why they reproduce - like rabbits) whereas mine are slaughtered right at (or very near) that point. It’s just like drinking soy milk that has plant estrogen. It does nothing to a human because you wouldn’t process that in the same way as actual human estrogen. Vegans are so effing dumb. Buy It:    And Into The Garden I Do To Lose My Mind And Find My Soul Lady Flower Shirt

 Another tactic used is Reductio Ad Absurdum AKA Appeal to Extremes where they establish a claim by showing the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity. In most cases they don’t realize that works both ways against their Alien fantasies and cannibalism of the mentally challenged. With your point about Adventists, they're the ones who founded the American Dietetic Association, which is where most of the vegans I encounter cite as their proof. When you then take a look at the publications of those authors, you can see that they almost exclusively produce studies that follow their religious code. They are either manipulating their results or refusing to publish outcomes that don't align with their beliefs. Buy It:  And Into The Book Store To Lose My Mind And Find My Soul Lady Library Flower Shirt

I have wondered about the use of animal byproducts in fertilizer production..is it significant and because of this are vegans indirectly consuming an diet dependent on animal agriculture. Great post. Veganism is not a diet, it's just malnutrition - it has nothing to do with health and when you dig deep into a vegan it usually is revealed that it's a moral dilemma for them. The supposed health benefits are just a way to justify this counter-intuitive fad eat disorder. When they point out a logical fallacy that you may have used they think that defeats the entire refutation/argument. It doesn’t. Buy It:    A New Command I Give You Love One Another God Shirt

 Like I don’t get it, I’m not trying to force vegans to eat meat I just don’t want them to insinuate that everyone could be vegan if they really wanted to but ignoring the fact that people have conditions that make that assertion impossible! Another one to add under health, if we were meant to be herbivores / it was healthier like many vegans claim, we would be the only herbivores on the planet that can’t digest cellulose. This should be very clear when you consider there was never a recorded group of humans that could survive without animals. The only vegans I see argue with that are those that have sunken extremely deep into their mental illness. Buy It:  Assuming Im Just An Old Man Was Your First Mistake Fire Fight Shirt

 I'd suggest that anyone who bases his diet on anything other than what is natural and naturally available is probably gonna have a hard time of it. Though there's always some evidence-based elements of things. For instance, blood-letting apparently does have some value. Who knew? Oh man I totally agree with vegan diets working for some people and not others. When I mentioned that in the debate a vegan sub they fucking lost a gasket and raged at me that they weren’t ‘doing the diet right’ and that veganism when done ‘correctly’ is good for EVERYONE. But with being a vegan all of a sudden it’s ‘anyone can do it even if you have health conditions that need fat and protein veganism cures everything! Buy IT:  Never Underestimate A Dispatcher Who Does All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Her God Heart Shirt

So sad this has to exist. Whatever happened to sanity? Why are vegans so hyper-emotional and illogical? Since when does anyone base their nutrition on emotions vs. science? Only in our modern culture could veganism be supported. I tried it in 2006, it did not last a month. Then there wasn’t the kind of junk food you can find these days for vegans, vegan cheese was nonexistent (still isn’t cheese). They are beyond pathetic, they are abhorrent.  Feeding livestock grains like corn, wheat, rye and legumes like soy, is a very modern, unnecessary concept. Ruminants can be naturally raised on grasses, which are wind-pollinated. This is true for the highly cultivated plants they eat...hello? Buy It:    My Scars Tell A Story They Are Reminders Of When Life Tried To Break Me But Failed Wolf Shirt

 Cultivated bees vs natural pollinators - vegans will often argue that cultivated bees outcompete and pressure local pollinators who are often better at pollination. This is absolutely true. However, local pollinators dont and cant exist in large enough numbers to support modern agriculture's use of massive, seasonal monocultures. Some modern cultivated ag requires modern cultivated bees which require seasonal feeding and honey removal. It's a system unto itself which has no natural analog. If you are going to draw from the end product you have to accept the entire system. We are not, because bees do not pollinate grasses. Grass is wind-pollinated. Look it up. Grass-fed beef can exist without bees. Buy It:  Never Underestimate A Paramedic Who Does All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Her God Heart Shirt

 Feeding bees - feeding bees in the run up to spring (or any time there is a dearth) is not about replacing honey we stole from them, it's about maximizing brood production for the largest and strongest colony possible for a host of practical reasons. Also, they are not just given sugar water but also a pollen substitute. Taking honey - pulling honey from hives is necessary for colony health as they will quickly produce more than they have space for in the spring and have more than they can defend in the rest of the year. However, local pollinators dont and cant exist in large enough numbers to support modern agriculture's use of massive, seasonal monocultures.  Buy It:  November Girl Make No Mistake My Personality Is Who I Am My Attitude Depends On Who You Are Hand Lip Shirt

Livestock animals wouldn't exist without agriculture as most are a product of heavy breeding but I wouldn't say they can't exist survive in the wild. There are many descendants of livestock living in the wild with populations of pigs, goats, cows, and horses all over the place. Yes absolutely. I've had the beekeeping discussions with vegans many times (I'm a beekeeper) and the number of misconceptions out there are mindboggling and it is really a topic unto itself but there are three common points of contention. I just realized, arent't we (and also vegans) extremely dependant on beekeeping? Buy It:    Official Vineyard Vines Boat Flag Shirt

I think you underestimate the diversity of views in this sub. Not all of us believe in the superiority of eating local or organic. Not all of us believe that plant-based diets are healthy. Many of us are brand-loyal to nation-wide companies. Many of us are doing low-carb or strict carnivore diets specifically for the health benefits. It’s not that we never discuss controversial topics here, but anti-veganism is the only ideology uniting us. You may want to go to other subs for posts on those topics. I am trying to educate myself on both sides. What is your source for the part regarding animal deaths being higher in plant agriculture vs animal agriculture? Buy It:    Laborer I Won't Quit But I Might Cuss The Whole Time Spade Shirt

It’s only expensive because of what the government chooses to subsidize - it’s not like that in most countries - which is why every other developing country eats a plant based diet. It would be realistic to eat a plant based diet if the government wasn’t full of meat/dairy/cash crop lobbyists, and it’s absolutely ridiculous that we just accept that fresh local produce is unaffordable - it doesn’t have to be that way, vegan or not. I’ve spent some time abroad and I would say that the majority of developed countries (maybe not to much the UK and Germany) are eating much healthier/fresher than americans, when they’re supposed to be the richest country) but perhaps my problem is I’m just on the wrong sub. Buy It:    Not All Angels Play The Harp And Sing Some Are Called To Battle Shirt

I saw that episode as well, but that’s garlic from China. The whole point of that episode was to show how their practices were screwing with the industry. So I wouldn’t say it’s fair to connect forced labor in China and garlic in and of itself because American garlic is grown, from what I understood, much more fairly. Why couldn’t we just advocate for locally grown food then, and the government could subsidize fresh produce better than it does now, and regardless of if we ate meat or not - we would all be healthier and less people would suffer. I learned that the slave industry started in sugar cane fields in Africa. Sugar was the first product of slavery. Buy It:    October Girl Make No Mistake My Personality Is Who I Am My Attitude Depends On Who You Are Hand Lip Shirt

Another thing to note is that plant-based diets are heavily dependent on human suffering, unless the food is produced local to where it is bought. This is because many produce items are grown and packaged in second or third world countries where workers can be underpaid or forced to work or they work in substandard conditions. Another big tip: organize the list by ethical, nutritional, environmental, and philosophical topics (with headlines). The way you bulleted all these ideas in one long list makes it look as if you just jotted down your thoughts as you had them.  Buy It:    Top This Is Sandpit Turtle Man Sing A Song Shirt

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I collect alot of stuff, books, weirdo witchy stuff like herbs, crystals, candles, and figurines, craft items, unicorns, about 2yrs ago I started my funko collection,,when I found out they had funkos of some of my favorite things...I think I'd like most the marilyn manson one, because HES AWESOME, and I just found out they made him like a month ago! I desperately want nikki sixx and slash, but under 15 manson is definitely my #1. Thanks 4 the contest! When the state series will be complete, I'll try to get the national parks, it will be a good occasion to learn a bit of US geography! es, they're mine! I received the box from a secret santa, it's meant for small rocks, but works fine with coins. And I added some LED lights, because I love to play with LED lights, haha! Buy It:    You Matter #Teacher Apple Heart Shirt

 I also collect stamps. I put a really pretty sheet on my WL in case my Lego item doesn't count :) I started collecting them when I was a kid. I just collected the cancelled stamps from incoming mail and then I saw an ad where you could get many old uncancelled stamps pretty cheap. I have many other things I started to collect, but I haven't had spare cash and I am trying to only get small items now and be more minimalistic. I still enjoy these collections. I collect America the Beautiful quarters and state quarters too, wheat pennies, bicentennial quarters, and some other coins. But recently we are never using cash! I will have the parts but be missing one of the most important tools. (Also I haven't had much free time.) I really enjoy picking the supplies and buying them, but I decided I'm going to try to focus on certain types. So I will trade the ones I don't think I'll use. Buy It:  You Know What Rhymes With Camping? Alcohol Car Tree Beer Shirt