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Revealed: the industry figures behind ‘declaration of scientists’ backing meat eating
The “Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock” says livestock “are too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or zealotry” and calls for a “balanced view of the future of animal agriculture”. One of the authors of the declaration is an economist who called veganism an “eating disorder requiring psychological treatment”.
...‘declaration of scientists’ backing meat eating
L.I. vegan baker accused of supplying shop with Dunkin' Donuts
Wife’s veganism has become a third party...
Vegan food is 'worse for your health than eating real meat
Warning to be aware of when eating sushi as woman tragically died
DESIIGNER PARTLY BLAMES AIRPLANE MASTURBATION ARREST ON VEGAN DIET
I Don’t Eat Salad For Dinner Anymore
Woman switches strict vegan diet for 'animal only'
I cried at my vegan wedding
Woman Says She Ordered a Burger After Finding Out Her Date Was Vegan
Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing
We knew the long quarantine was making us all crabby, but this is extreme: People now feel fully betrayed by the long history of crabification (technically, “carcinization”) of different species over time. That means groups of crustaceans have evolved into crabs in five completely different contexts, giving rise to a meme that the long arc of history truly bends toward the crab.
So how does carcinization happen? Well, that part is pretty simple. Animals that live in similar habitats face obstacles that can shuttle them all toward the same evolutionary advantages. Britannica cites the marsupials as a key example, where despite having one critical difference from their “placental” counterparts in other parts of the world, the marsupials often correspond very closely to these other animals.
Animals can evolve separately but end up evolving toward other species, too, or even spontaneously evolve the same characteristics in totally separate groups. Birds and bats can both fly using mechanical wings. Birds and mammals are both warmblooded, but both evolved from groups that were not.
Animals Keep Evolving Into Crabs, Which Is Somewhat Disturbing
Slimy, orange ‘alien egg pods’ discovered in river
Why are we catching more diseases from animals?
The world is grappling with the new coronavirus, which has spread from China to at least 15 other countries.
Outbreaks of new infectious diseases are typically seen as a "one off".
But the new virus - thought to have stemmed from wildlife - highlights our risk from animal-borne disease. This is likely to be more of a problem in future as climate change and globalisation alter the way animals and humans interact.
How can animals make people ill?
In the past 50 years, a host of infectious diseases have spread rapidly after making the evolutionary jump from animals to humans.
The HIV/Aids crisis of the 1980s originated from great apes, the 2004-07 avian flu pandemic came from birds, and pigs gave us the swine flu pandemic in 2009. More recently, it was discovered severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) came from bats, via civets, while bats also gave us Ebola.
Humans have always caught diseases from animals. In fact, most new infectious diseases come from wildlife.
Why are we catching more diseases from animals
Some pet owners are advocating against rabies vaccines
Hundreds of baby emperor penguins stranded on breakaway iceberg miraculously survive
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
The science is clear: without drastic action to limit temperature rise below 1.5C, the Earth, and all life on it, including all human beings, will suffer devastating consequences.
To stop climate disaster, make ecocide an international crime. It's the only way
Scientists fear Earth may have gone past the point of no return with climate change
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
Patient in Guinea is killed by disease that causes 88% of sufferers to bleed to death
...it is considered a breach for a mother to throw her daughter a shower...
Why climate change activists have failed to score public support
US abortion numbers have risen
Filicide
How Often Should You Wash Your Dog?
Most dogs don’t require bathing more than every two weeks, according to Mark D. Freeman, DVM, an Assistant Professor at VA-MD College of Veterinary Medicine.”If they live in a clean environment, sometimes that number is even less,” Dr. Freeman says. That’s partly why the ASPCA thinks you can get away with bathing your dog as infrequently as once every three months. Dogs that spend time both indoors and outdoors, however, are more likely to need bathing every two weeks because they’re simply more likely to get dirty.
How Often Should You Wash Your Dog?
Vet Tech Reveals the 15 Dog Breeds She Would Never Own
...these are three breeds I'd never recommend getting'
I’ve Suddenly Noticed My Husband Doesn’t Measure Up
I have a recurring thought that might turn into a problem. I’m married to a man I adore, and we have an incredible sex life that I wouldn’t change for the world. Passionate, fun, multiple orgasms per session. However, while my body is overjoyed, my mind is struggling. My husband is slightly shorter than average, and his dick is slightly smaller than average as well. This is something I’ve always known and has never impacted our sex life. But I had a friend complaining about a below-average-sized lover, and it got me all in my head. Now when I look at my husband in bed, I can’t not notice that he’s smaller than what society says he should be. I never thought about it before, but it’s making me feel less attracted to him now. I find myself less inclined to give him hand jobs or blow jobs because I don’t want to think about his size. Why am I obsessing over this when I find sex with him so pleasurable? How do I get over this?
—Little Problem
I’ve Suddenly Noticed My Husband Doesn’t Measure Up
Is it true ejaculating 21 times a month will drastically lower my husband’s risk of getting prostate cancer?
What Is the Average Penis Size
Scientists baffled as Earth spins faster than usual
Scientists have warned that, if the rotation rate continues to speed up, we may need to remove a second from our atomic clocks.
“If Earth’s fast rotation continues, it could lead to the introduction of the first-ever negative leap second.”
Scientists baffled as Earth spins faster than usual
A disastrous megaflood is coming to California
Map Shows States Asking People to Avoid Being Outdoors
As “Hypercarnivores", Humans Were Apex Predators For 2 Million Years
While many modern humans opt for a vegetarian or vegan diet, new research suggests that our ancestors obtained the majority of their nutrition from meat, and only diversified their food intake to include more plants at the very end of the Stone Age.
Hypercarnivores
The Coming Meat Utopia Is Real
Florida bans lab-grown meat
Martin Freeman gives up vegetarianism after 38 years
...all slices of meat in a doner to be the exact same thickness
DeSantis Florida's lab-grown meat ban
Are Plant-Based Toxins a Greater Risk Than We Thought?
'Past a point of no return': Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won't stop global warming
Even if human-caused greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced to zero, global temperatures may continue to rise for centuries afterward, according to a scientific study published Thursday.
"The world is already past a point of no return for global warming," the study authors report in the British journal Scientific Reports. The only way to stop the warming, they say, is that "enormous amounts of carbon dioxide have to be extracted from the atmosphere."
The burning of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere, causing global temperatures to increase and sea levels to rise.
The scientists modeled the effect of greenhouse gas emission reductions on changes in the Earth's climate from 1850 to 2500 and created projections of global temperature and sea level rises.
'Past a point of no return':
...climate change isn't biggest environmental threat
Planting Trees Won’t Stop Climate Change
Tree-planting projects may not be so green
Don't just blame climate change for weather disasters
'Green' policies may actually lead to more pollution
Increased drought forces California to deliver less water to cities
NC declares state of emergency
2 boaters seen on viral video dumping trash overboard
Airlines could start forcing passengers to step on the scale before flights after FAA imposes new weight rules for planes
Luggage might not be the only items being placed on scales at airports in the near future as regulators are asking airlines to more accurately estimate how heavy their passengers are.
As part of new safety regulations, the Federal Aviation Administration is requiring airlines come up with new, more in-depth methods of determining passenger and carry-on baggage weight.
Everything from clothing to items such as cell phones must be taken into account under the new guidelines, and the move is an implicit acknowledgment that the average American is getting heavier.
Airlines could start forcing passengers to step on the scale
At least 20 people injured on Hawaiian Airlines flight
6'1
This airline is weighing passengers
Overweight People Do Not Have A Higher Mortality Risk
Men can get pregnant
A third of British schoolkids have been taught that a woman can have a penis, it was claimed today.
A survey of more than 1,000 kids aged 16-18 also revealed one in five were told men can get pregnant — even though it is biologically impossible.
Two-thirds were taught that biological sex was 'assigned' by medical professionals at birth. This meant, by their logic, that it could be changed later in life.
Men can get pregnant
Gay man piled-on after sharing pics of his newborn
...‘rise’ in transgenderism shows it’s a fad
Drug shortages reach 'public health emergency levels'
Up to 300 drugs are currently in shortage nationwide, according to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, which is a five-year high.
They include everything from chemotherapy and antibiotics to a sterile fluid used to stop the heart in bypass operations and an antidote to lead poisoning.
Drug shortages reach 'public health emergency levels'
Doctors warn vaginal rejuvenation wastes money, shows no benefit
“Vaginal rejuvenation procedures are being used for the treatment of urinary incontinence and GSM, as well as for less clear indications (e.g., vaginal tightening for better sexual satisfaction), without good evidence that it helps any of these conditions,” the authors noted in the paper.
In a comment to Medscape, Kelly reiterated that expensive and unproven laser procedures are being marketed to women as a viable solution.
Doctors warn vaginal rejuvenation
The Witcher 3 Adds Realistic Vaginas
Personal trainer, 39, has chunk of his penis removed
I don't want to look like an alien when I'm 70
New study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies
Colonoscopies are a dreaded rite of passage for many middle-age adults. The promise has been that if you endure the awkwardness and invasiveness of having a camera travel the length of your large intestine once every decade after age 45, you have the best chance of catching – and perhaps preventing – colorectal cancer. It’s the second most common cause of cancer death in the United States. Some 15 million colonoscopies are performed in the US each year.
Now, a landmark study suggests the benefits of colonoscopies for cancer screening may be overestimated.
New study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies
West Nile virus and invasive mosquitos arrive in Shasta County
Positive tests from samples of adult mosquitos in the Anderson and Shingletown area confirm the West Nile virus has returned to Shasta county.
The Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control District (SMVCD) said in a press release Saturday that the positive tests came from routine collections as part of their surveillance program. The district is now attempting to decrease mosquito populations through ground treatments in areas where the positive mosquitos were found. They are also continuing their widespread mosquito trapping and testing to monitor virus activity.
West Nile virus and invasive mosquitos arrive in Shasta County
Mosquitoes carrying a virus that causes paralysis and death are swarming at least 6 states
California has reported its first West Nile death of the year
Protecting yourself from mosquito-borne diseases
OC man tests positive for West Nile virus