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"I'll take the one that gave my ancestors the nourishment needed to build a society privileged enough for soy boys to preach at me about what I eat."

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I wish I could save likes, then I could like this sentiment to the extent it deserves to be!

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You'd have like 3 of them in your like folder.

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Heh, business oppostunity right there - pay for likes. Though I guess Facebook already cornered that one years ago?

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They're like Christmas cards. I feel obligated to send you a like when I get one from you.

Are you picking berries today or painting?

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Neither - today is Thursday so that meant seeing my physiotherapist and doing volunteer work at a local church in the closest township, handing out grocery bags to the poor hudled masses; lots of very poor senior citizens, local alkys, the usual crowd.

They get a free lunch, cup of coffee/tea, and whatever food we get donated from the stores in town, plus a little chat, meeting friends and so on. Our recycling system works in such a way business dumping stuff like food past sell-by date must pay a fee, so by donating it they instead save those money and do a good deed too.

Two weeks back, one of the supermarkets had their annual "clean out all the stuff we haven't sold since last year's Yule"-day, so we got 1 500 ½ kilo tubes of rice porridge. It is humbling (and rage inducing) to see a mother with children bite down her tears of gratitude because she knows wont have to tell the kids to eat as much as they can in school this week.

Oh, and by spreading such unsavory details that we in Sweden have people so poor they live below the UN's poverty line, I'm committing a crime.

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I was so poor growing up that my mom would hover over all three of her boys at dinner waiting to see if we'd eat all our meal.

We always saved enough for her.

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Good on you mate.

Instead of allowing government to criminalize truth, let's criminalize government.

In the meantime, should the Polismyndigheten come for you, know that I'll contribute to your GoFundMe to bail you out.

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Here! Here!

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dont spend your money in these places, its all poisonous crap anyway

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Every food we eat has been poisoned by these creatures. Even if you grow your own it is poisoned by the chemicals sprayed by geoengineering planes. No rainwater on earth is safe to drink.

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Sure, but there is some nuance to that. There's a difference between eating cancer-inducing, endocrine disrupting petrochemicals in high concentration every day, to minimizing your exposure.

Humans are resilient, we can tank radiation, mutations, poison, cancer etc... as long as the dose isn't so high (even prions for a while).

So all is not lost.

Growing your own food is the most revolutionary act of today.

Emancipate from the industry and opt out.

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all animals drink rain water though. try giving your dog or cat city water ! they won't have it.

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Mine won't. They only drink filtered water. Reverse osmosis.

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I'm not sure I believe the new rainwater proclamations. I'm ambivalent. You must remember "they" know people are prepping in various ways. Some by collecting rainwater. Wouldn't it be advantageous for them to make sure people believed it is toxic? Make it harder to get bottled water, because people would be hoarding more of it. ...?

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We are getting a nose for smelling money Bandit ! I think you are right. Plastic bottles contain poisonous chemicals too. All animals consume rainwater by choice (cats and dogs the dirtier, the better) and humans did until 100 years ago too. It is like those asking how can you knit socks by hand !

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Have it tested at a lab. We have done that in many different states. it is very contaminated with nanoparticles of aluminum, barium, strontium, and even graphene oxide. Yes they are spraying graphene oxide in the geoengineering trails. It is sickening. Also bacteria, red blood cells, and fungi are present. Take a sample to get tested at a lab. You will find out what's in the rainwater, river water, and all water on earth. What is sprayed up high must come down, and it does. We are also breathing i the nanoparticles daily. That is one reason people have become so much sicker during the last 30 years.

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and of course all the chemicals in food (colorants, preservatives, smell and taste agents) in the packaging (remember as a kid everything packed in wax paper) all the chemicals the doctor gives you, and that lots of people buy over the counter, all the jabs... my dad, now 88, tends to say that a person from 150 years ago being brought back to life, would immediately die again from all that grub ! Imagine a world like the Amish still live in... no cars, TV or radio or computer, no cooling, no electricity, no gas, only real fire from wood, it is possible, they still live like that. But of course, we are all so spoiled !

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I know about the chemtrails and what they're spraying. This would also be all over our food. As you say, also all water on Earth. Meaning, this isn't any more toxic than what we already drink.

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and the city water here has bleach in it. You can smell it right away, all on top of that.

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Sure, but try going

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Exactly

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Incrementalism at its finest

Next Bugs

Then Soylent Green

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For real - “Nudge theory” in play.

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Classic Dialectic Capture ploy

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No, Soylent Green is meat. (Come to think of it, so are bugs.)

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The next question should be, "Traditional meat, Soylent Green, or bugs?"

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Yeah, but Soylent Green: IT'S PEOPLE!!!!! Channeling Charleton Heston here...

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I thought it was either a dessert topping or a floor wax !!

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Soylent Green is people.

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Next you realize they are already feeding you bugs. Then you realize it's already Soylent Green.

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Carnivore diet saved me and many others from the hells of autoimmune disease and more. This is an attack on human health.

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/does-carnivore-diet-really-work-for

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100%. When red meat is in *last* place below Frosted Mini Wheats on the WEF recommended food list, you know exactly what's up.

Red meat and eggs for the win.

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The Carnivore Diet is the f#cking bomb. Fifteen years ago my doctor told me I had asthma and despite a steroid inhaler it would get progressively worse over the course of my life. I tried the inhaler for a month, gained 10 lbs from the steroid and tossed it. I did my own research and ultimately went low carb. My asthma immediately went away (within a couple days), I lost 40 lbs, my hand tremors disappeared and my eyesight improved. About 5 years ago I was following Dr. Shawn Baker on twitter when he first tried Carnivore and saw his results, I immediately went full Carnivore myself. I lost more weight, I no longer need glasses at all and my lifelong hayfever disappeared.

I'm pretty much convinced that meat (particularly beef) is the optimal food for humans and I will fight to the death anyone who tries to take that away from me.

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i had a similar story only i took the inhalers for 30 years, havnt even owned one in 6 years now. i used to be allergic to pets, not a problem now!

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Hey Bob, remember the "Eat mor chikin" cows in the Chick-fil-A commercials? I am glad you didn't dox yourself with your comment above. Still, if I were you I'd make sure to double lock my doors at night: There could be a lot of mad cows out there!

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I love those ads!

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Hell yeah love hearing this

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Oh, me too. I'm gonna call all of you guys next time I need to run a mastodon off a cliff. How about it, you down?

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There's no way I'd eat a globalist, God only knows what they're made of!

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True, but I think if you played it safe by following the tried-and-true method of keeping them in a tank and purging them with cornmeal for a few days prior to slaughter, then they might be okay. Perhaps not delectably toothsome, but acceptable. Fava beans and a nice Chianti will help to round things out.

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Coffee snort!!

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This is an amazing testimonial. Hayfever and glasses here... Hmmm.

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Give it a try, what can it hurt?

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I tried eating nothing but meat for two months and it was great. I moved to France and here the meat is super expensive. ~15€\kg even for minced meat. I can’t afford to eat just meat. My ultimate goal is to buy or rent land and graze animals. The beef you eat has been fed grain. Cows are supposed to eat nothing but grass. I want to produce real food for myself and others. For anyone interested: read or watch Joel Salatin.

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I find it cheap since I only need to eat once a day

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Not relevant in any way…

The amount of times one eats makes no difference on the amount of meat one has to eat to satisfy the caloric needs.

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You get 'im!

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well my food bill is half what is was, when you eat just meat your appetite suppresses. i used to do the 'normal' 3 meals a day bullshit plus snacks. now i eat like my ancestors and its a damn sight cheaper. your body adapts to caloric needs, i used to probably consume 5000 cals a day, now im at 3000 tops

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same, im currently a full carnivore and will be till we run out of meat

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We ain’t running out. We can always eat the globalists. ;)

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I won't eat soy-based meat. :)

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i feed the local pigeons just in case, cannibalism will be a last resort

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Yes we have a whole cloud of them living and kaking on our roof. Hubby wants to shoot them. I said: not yet.

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Delicious cooked with white wine, maybe over wild rice?

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Great suggestion. I better stock up on wine then--I do have a large stock of rice. It will never be enough of course...

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😂🤣

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I wrote a food column for a newspaper for a few years. I talked a lot about the history of different ethnic foods, and how much they were a result of and intertwined with invasion, conquest, war, famine, etc., as well as human ingenuity and the observation of the rest of the natural world.

How else can you explain eating artichokes and grape leaves?

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That they're delicious 😋!

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Yes, they are, I couldn't agree more. But the very first time, millennia ago, some person watched camels eating thistles (artichokes) and they were very hungry and said why don't I try that, some part of that thorny thing must be good. Same with grape leaves - they aren't all that great when they're raw, but if you use them as a cooked container for other things, yum! Someone got innovative, and that probably came from hunger. Necessity is a mother.

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I wonder about the first humans to eat oysters...

" yeah...it looks like snot. I'll think I'll eat it tho..."

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I wonder about the first person to eat snails. And why they should be considered a delicacy as escargot when they are really just snot in a shell.

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Absolutely!

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ive never tried either, dont expect to unless/until the meat disappears

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Hearing about the Carnivore diet makes me so sad... because I've been allergic to red meat for almost 40 years.

Beef smells SO good. 😓

( oddly , I can eat butter and dairy. It's the tissue I can't consume)

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Try pasture raised beef that has been free from anti biotics and grain and everything else.

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And humanely slaughtered. This is very important.

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Well, I'd say it has to do with your karma, Karma. Does the monastic life appeal to you?

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I'm a bit of a hermit, but as I've already stated publicly that any result to throw anything like a burka or hajib over my head would result in - - less than satisfactory results..let's say-- for the provider of said clothing....I'm guessing my reaction to having a habit putbon me would have the same results .

So...I reckon not.

My karma. How sad.

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Mmm I should have clarified. I was thinking in terms of reincarnation. Maybe you had a past life as a high-born Brahmin; cows were sacred and eating beef anathema to you.

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That's interesting. Or maybe sometime back I was cruel on a ranch or cattledrives, and now am deprived of their sustenance...

Can you imagine the willpower of being Jainist? Of wearing a mask alllllll the time ( and what that does to you?) So you don't inadvertently swallow bugs or other living creatures??

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No I cannot imagine it. They are definitely a breed apart.

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Do the butter! Do the butter!

Butter makes everything better!

Julia Child had it 100% right!

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I use butter for everything— gave up on oils a few years ago. Everything IS better with butter! Eating butter and meat (especially beef and bacon) is my small rebellion against the forces that have been trying to destroy the dairy and meat industries for decades.

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Once upon a time, my grandparents came to the US from Poland. As in "1914." My grandmother would not bring margarine into the house and said it was poison.

She was right, and I rarely use it.

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Hey, living in postwar Poland I'll always remember

my mum saying it was rubbish ("margaryna dla Gagarina" m for Gagarin) and also to remember that

it is better for me to eat less but good stuff than

to fill myself up with crap. I have to say that I have

follow that to this day.

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You know, I never thought about the quality of the food, but you're 110% correct.

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Ghee is also a great way to cook with butter! For some reason, I couldn't like your comment, but I would've if I could've.

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A jar of ghee on the shelf is like money in the bank.

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"If you are afraid of cream...use butter." Or something like that. God I loved that woman. I have a lot of roses, and one of my favorites is "Julia Child". She chose it herself, when she was awarded the honor of a rose in her name. It is big and fragrant and so happy, and the color of - you guessed it - butter!

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And right you are 😁

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A bit off topic:

We were lied to about C0VID and the vaxxes. What are the other lies we have been told by the CDC/FDA? I'm sure this wasn't the first.

For example: does cholesterol cause heart disease? My guess is actually no. So yeah, the carnivore diet WOULD be healthy, if not optimal.

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Cholesterol was long ago shown to have no effect on heart disease. The first big study showed that you could not control cholesterol through diet, but exercise might provide some benefit. The next big study showed that the plaques attributed to cholesterol had no effect on heart disease (much like the recent Alzheimer’s revelations). I am relying on memory here, which at my age can be suspect, but I’m reasonably sure I've gotten it right. Maybe someone else with a better grasp of current research can expand or correct.

Seems to me that all of the doctor-driven edicts have been wrong, from margarine to salt to the food pyramid to soy and seed oils. Smoking was good for you, everyone should be sprayed with DDT, asbestos was wonderful — on and on. We should treat doctors, particularly public health doctors with a healthy dose of skepticism. And we should make more room for the terrain theorists — germ theory is obviously flawed, but I’m not convinced that the terrain folks have it figured out either. And each individual will have a unique response to certain treatments — you can generalize all you like about a population, but never about an individual. We all need to take part in our own health — treat our bodies as the wondrous gift that they are, and depend less on the “health care” system that is failing everyone.

For what it’s worth ….

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I’ve read that cholesterol actually doesn’t cause heart disease. Heart disease brings on cholesterol, which is kinda like spackling for your veins. Sugars make tiny holes in your veins and cholesterol comes along and patches them. It’s our FRIEND! Eat all the

protein/keri you want and stay away from sugars. Cholesterol goes away when spackle isnt needed.

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I am convinced that cholesterol is a symptom, not a cause

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The answer to your question is probably not. Back in the 1960s, there was a group of people led by Ancel Keys at the University of Minnesota who said that cholesterol was a leading cause of increased rates of heart disease. Their data was not necessarily wrong, but was cherry-picked to show the results they wanted (a common problem in science I hate to admit). Another group disagreed with him and said that sugar was the reason why there was more heart disease. Unfortunately, Dr. Keys was more powerful and destroyed the careers of those scientists so that his results were deemed to be the "correct" reason for the increased rates of heart disease. We as a society have the paid the price ever since because we are addressing the wrong source. For me, it is very simple. The human body needs fat (and cholesterol) to survive. It does not need sugar. Get rid of the sugar, keep the meat and the fat that comes with it.

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Imagine that! Big pharma, cherry picking data to suit its narrative.

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Yep, and now everyone and their twin brother is taking statins, you know, the ones that cause Alzheimer's.

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Cholesterol has been blacklisted as soon as first statin was patented.

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Your brain runs (mostly) on cholesterol. Now you know why people are so damn dumb! 🤣

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The public and medical conversation about cholesterol is similar to what we're seeing with the Covid jabs right now.

The mainstream, conventional medical establishment continues to recommend and believe in cholesterol lowering drugs. They are widely prescribed. Medical schools continue to emphasize low saturated fat and low cholesterol diets as do many MDs.

At the same time, many non-mainstream MDs, Naturopathic doctors, alternative medical providers, non-medical scientists and various writers have argued against the use of cholesterol lowering drugs, citing their side effects and powerfully criticizing the notion that serum cholesterol levels alone cause heart disease.

This debate has gone on for at least 50 years. Both sides have claimed victory the whole time.

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so then you have to ask yourself.... what about chemotherapy? what about an autism/childhood vaxxine link?

what else are they lying about?

and why is the only solution for any problem expensive drugs or expensive surgery?

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I'm starting to believe that the actual scientific answers to those questions don't even matter in our system.

1. What matters to patients: will insurance pay for the treatment or therapy I want?

2. What matters to health care providers: will insurance pay for the treatment or therapy I offer?

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You're 100% correct.

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There is absolutely a vaccine autism HUGE link. I can give you dozens of book titles and sources.

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Chemotherapy treats cancer sort of like a bacterial infection, like something we can successfully "kill off" with a strong medication. But, agreeing with you, IMHO, it seems like the problem is that the immune system, which usually prevents metastatic cancer, sometimes fails to do that job.

So, right now, immunotherapy seems to be a very good thing to research for cancer treatment. And I find it interesting that a therapy we all criticize here -- mRNA injections -- just might turn out to be very promising as a way to shift the attention of the immune system so that it starts to attack cancer cells.

But I wonder, given all the negativity I currently feel about mRNA jabs: would I be able to objectively calculate a risk/reward ratio for an mRNA based cancer treatment in the face of a highly deadly cancer?

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We’re drinking pasteurized milk that offers far more benefits than raw milk… read about it..

All of the lies and regulations that bas been showed down our collective throats is mind numbing.

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Far less benefits*

Pardon!

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Look up Dr Malcolm Kendrick, who's written several books on the subject. RationalWiki lambastes him unsurprisingly as a conspiracy theorist because he doesn't believe high cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease. Statins, like vaccines, are a huge source of income for Pharma, which has been "persuading" and rewarding doctors to prescribe them for decades.

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/statin-nation-the-documentary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry1Z8buyd8I

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And as you prob know, statins can be very dangerous... More fun info about statins at https://spacedoc.com/

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He's a great guy. Writes all sorts of interesting stuff.

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I used to predict that one day cholesterol would be seen as a NUTRIENT. Lately though, I don't think I'll live to see that day due to the globalists agenda. Cholesterol is key for humans making Vitamin D from the sun. And it's key to steroid hormones - cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone and more. We cannot live without good cholesterol levels. It's a critical building block in our BRAINS.

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We definitely were lied to. Read my story (it’s totally free substack):

https://joshketry.substack.com/p/its-my-carniversary

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This is a great article, thanks for sharing!

I've done the moderate keto diet, and honestly, I need to get back to it. Many of us probably do.

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I myself think it's the best way to get real results after one has reached a certain age (when pounds glue themselves to you and refuse to be shed). I would never do keto for the rest of my life, I love fruit too much, but as a way to kickstart a healthier lifestyle which would include a careful accounting of good carbs, I cannot think of a better plan. At least it's true for me, and I have vast experience in this field.

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A while back, when I was trying to lose weight, I tried the Fat Smash diet. It's kind of a moderate keto. That worked, and I didn't have the keto taste in my mouth or the lack of carb... let's just call it "disagreeableness."

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I was keto for a few months. For about six weeks it felt really good. After that it went downhill. Since then though I’ve cut my carbs in half from what they were pre keto. And when I creep up I feel it. Keto though was too low for me, carb wise. But 100 grams a day seems fine. I love toast in the morning. But it slows my metabolism down all day. A meat sandwich though at lunch is fine for me. The carbs seem okay with protein. And as much as I looove potatoes I’ve cut way down.

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I agree. I also like Mark Sisson (Mark's Daily Apple website) - he has a kind of no brainer paleo / keto thing going... "lazy keto".

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Grassfed beef & free range (hopefully from hens who have never seen a chicken house) eggs are far superior for your health. We used to have 8 hens who were allowed to roam free all day eating bugs (before that was cool! 🐛) and weed seeds. Those yolks weren’t even yellow. They were ORANGE— so full

of vitamin A!

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My girls do the same. It gets so other eggs are almost unpalatable.

Just had one tonite...for dessert I dipped a ripe plaintain in egg and fried it up. Honey and butter FTW...

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Chickens eat the bugs so we don't have to. Whats wrong with that?

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I'm growing my plantain, have couple of leaves every

morning, going to try your way, thanks!

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Here in Australia they have been telling us recently that

consuming eggs from your "yard hens" could be dangerous

to your health (apparently they could be full of lead), go

figure, probably starting early to discourage people. Here

(Queensland) we experiencing eggs shortages recently.

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Try A2 raw butter. I get mine from Amos-Miller online. Also get soy free eggs since they don’t have ruminant stomachs like cows to process those PUFA poisons

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Sounds great— except I’m ever injecting anything again, just in case. What are the adjuvants in the injection? Can you find an ingredient list?

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Bugger King

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As kids we called it Booger King 😂

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Boogers are probably less carcinogenic.

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Now there's a topic! Boogers are in the news!! New research (which really doesn't bear thinking about) has PROVEN SCIENTIFICALLY that boogers are very, very good for the immune system. Yes, consuming them. A rich trove of anti-viral, antimicrobial, interferon-activating thingummies. Think I'll stop right there.

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Been there!

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Bug King.

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Hahaha

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I'm a liberal Democrat surrounded by liberal Democrats and I'd really like to stay that way but gosh my pals are making it hard. First they wanted me to risk my life with an experimental "vaccine" and now I'm supposed to give up hamburgers? C'mon man!

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Brush up on those cognitive dissonance skills and you'll be okay. After all, your President is the most popular in history. The vaccines fight racism or something.

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My media told me he's accomplished more than FDR. This person's an FDR Democrat surely.

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Not yet, but Comrade Biden is working on it. He's got some big shoes to fill.

After all, just look at the partial list of what the fascist, er, I mean progressive/democrat/totalitarian/moron, poster boi FDR accomplished:

- Stealing the people's gold via executive order

- The Tuskeegee Experiment

- Appointing a KKK member to the Supreme Court

- Creating the regulatory state that is choking the economy

- Lying about Pearl Harbor being a surprise attack

- Imprisoning citizens of Japansese descent in concentration camps

- Sending Jewish refugees back to the Holocaust

- Allowing Stalin to enslave all of Central Europe

- Keeping the Vichy government in power, running concentration camps, after Allied victory in North Africa

And he was admired and lauded by all the right people:

'Roosevelt himself called Mussolini “admirable” and professed that he was “deeply impressed by what he has accomplished.” The admiration was mutual. In a laudatory review of Roosevelt’s 1933 book Looking Forward, Mussolini wrote, “Reminiscent of Fascism is the principle that the state no longer leaves the economy to its own devices.…Without question, the mood accompanying this sea change resembles that of Fascism.” The chief Nazi newspaper, Volkischer Beobachter, repeatedly praised “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” and “the development toward an authoritarian state” based on the “demand that collective good be put before individual self-interest.”'

~ http://reason.com/archives/2007/09/28/hitler-mussolini-roosevelt

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Delusional. Like their leader.

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Well, they are killing a lot of white people.

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The dumb compliant ones, anyway.

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I appreciate your expression of doubt about the party that you have long identified with. You are one of many with the same thoughts. The political parties are very different than they were a few years ago. When a party of inclusion and diversity does the exact opposite, it is time to leave it.

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Can you imagine if JFK was around today? He'd absolutely be considered a conservative.

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this is Obama's Army.

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Are you this type of liberal? Because we need them:

"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

–Mario Savio

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Serious question. Why would you ‘really like to stay that way’? These are political parties. They aren’t religions or families. It’s like eating at a fave restaurant. If the meals started going bad you’d switch instantly. The Dems changed some years back. So did the GOP. Both are horrible. But in different ways. The GOP is filled with tough talking do nothing posers. The Dems though are filled with very corrupt evil and nearly evil people. Hillary won the nomination. She could have beaten Barrack if she had any sort of smarts about her. Why would you want to be part of a party that has Hillary, Biden, Whitmer, Hochul, Pelosi etc running it? Do you think like them? Do you want them making world level decisions on your behalf. The GOP is very uninspiring. Very. Also largely corrupt. But they aren’t currently dangerous in the way Biden is.

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No one in the GOP is currently trying explicitly to destroy my life or find a way to rob or kill me.

And none have told me I'm irredeemably evil and need to be cleansed from my homeland, either.

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Fair. But fuck those guys too.

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Agree.

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I'm actually not a very political person but, since you asked a serious question, I'll respond with a serious answer. There are a few issues where I find myself more aligned with the liberal point of view. I'm a gay man and historically the Democrats have been more accepting of me as such. I want, for instance, to continue to have the right to marry. It's weird hanging out in some COVID-related substacks as I read occasionally snide remarks about gay people. There's a lot of eye-rolling around Monkeypox. I'm no fan of orgies, straight or gay, but I do sense a negative vibe towards gays in general on the part of some, not all, conservatives.

Also, I believe that women should have the right to soverneigty over their bodies, including the right to abortion. To me "my body, my choice" applies equally to abortion and vaccines. Seems to me it's hypocritical to say one is OK and not the other.

At the same time, there's no doubt that the liberal response to the pandemic has been largely bunk. Like many others, I find myself not entirely comfortable with either the Democrats or the GOP.

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I agree with parts of your comment. I was never really political or ideological until the last 4 years. I'm really not even political now; I hate both parties.

But, I love this country. Every single Amendment in the Bill of Rights was rendered useless during covid - excepting 2A.

The current administration is lawless and frankly inept.

I have seen EVIL lately from the Dem's. Look at what has been done to children. And where's the common sense? What about the utter hypocrisy?

Look at the carnage that the least among us will experience...globally...due to these insane c19 policies.

Why all the hate from Dem's? It is obvious to me - I've seen it in my own friends. Why the demonization of the unvaxxed? The Dem's created second class citizens. That is wrong and should not be accepted.

Lastly, there a lot of issues, for example abortion. I am pragmatist; some people believe it's "murder". Some think you should be able to have it all the way up to birth. I think it's irresponsible to abort a baby after it has a heart beat? In my mind, If a child is viable and is aborted, that becomes immoral to me. That's an opinion, however, if REAL science proves that a fetus experiences pain; that is my threshold for choosing sides on this issue.

I'm actually hoping folks like you come around and realize we are fighting for freedom. We are living in a period that is an existential (hate using that word) threat to our liberty.

I really don't care how you would vote. I care about if you vote for evil. We only get two choices; that's how it works.

Join us in stopping this assault on our country.

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Sorry. I replied before I read your other post.

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You should check out the #WalkAway campaign that Brandon Straka has created. He was a liberal Dem too, but once he opened his eyes and mind to what his party has become. He walked away.

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Agreed. I suggest starting with the WalkAway reddit.

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he's being persecuted no end, but luckily for us, it's just making him stronger

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Same in 2016, and would have in 2020 if he'd still been in the race by the time my state got to vote (I voted for the earlier-exited Tulsi instead, and remain proud of it). After his sporadic missives since then, I've lost almost all the respect I used to have for the man.

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It almost makes you wonder if they were, in fact, correct in their estimations and that these were long-term goals steadily advanced for decades.

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I myself subscribe to this idea. We just thought the Nazis were wiped out. Obama, aka the Manchurian Candidate, was put in power at just the right time and did his job exceptionally well. And he's being richly rewarded.

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But...no socialist likes socialism once they get it. Other than those at the top.

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Everyone imagines Star Trek or being the ones in the dachas.

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Especially the teachers and professors. And writers. They really should be running things, they think. I know some professors that really think the ‘ideas in the academy right now will shape the world in twenty years’. Meanwhile the world runs apace without them. Their egos tell them they’re really in charge.

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"I know some professors that really think the 'ideas in the academy right now will shape the world in twenty years'".

Which should give them nightmares, seeing as it is their students' ideas that will shape the world, not theirs. Revolutions needs martyrs and villains, and what better for both than its own old ideologues who can be martyred if dead, or used as scapegoats if you fail, or sacrificed as reactionary counter-revolutionaires if you succeed?

Academia often just teaches you to be stupid with polysyllabic words.

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Oh, it is decades in the making...now we're on the TGV express train to totalitarianism...Klaus is the new Stalin/Hitler/Beelzebub.

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Absolutely they weren't.

All I care about is whether they're still along for the ride now that the agenda is to crush me or kill me.

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They were in many ways. They didn’t know it. But they adopted many of the buzzwords that would be used to move the center to a position of absurdity. And thereby tacitly accepted the direction.

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And what choice was there? Hillary? Then another doddering old fuck in McCain, obviously being run at that point by others? I fell for that shit after not voting for 20 years. I haven't voted again since. As an anarchist, I feel that I should not feed the egos. Mea Culpa.

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I would probably never voted but Hillary and Palin both gave me serious creeps. So much for women voting for women "becawz theyz Wimmin..."

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People think by going vegetarian they are doing the right thing for the planet and animals, yet by doing so many destroy their own health. I am a nutritionist and typically my sickest clients are vegan. I’m not saying it cannot be done but it takes work and requires a lot of supplementation. So this is interesting with BK shifting the mindset that the vegetarian option is standard and preferred…and we know how easily influenced people are.

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My wife is of the opinion that there is no such thing as a third generation vegan.

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Brilliant. Much like Maher's "ever seen a fat 90 year old?"

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Hmmm...I have certainly seen plump ones. The combo runs in my female line, on two sides, LOL.

But they were certainly not huge

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Interesting thought

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Same here.

And the worst thing is that they think being vegan is great for their health! It's so hard to convince them otherwise.

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Also, of course, many people cannot function well on a vegan diet even with the best sculpting and supplementation.

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I find free-range vegans are best. The farmed ones are generally full of unhealthy additives and have very stringy meat, what little there is of it. Of course, one must check the meat for levels of phyto-estrogen first to see that is is safe for consumtion.

Or wasn't that what you meant by a vegan diet?

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Rikard, in your experience, do you find that clowns often taste funny to you?

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Ha! Everything tastes funny when you wash it down with Faygo. Or Posse-bly Dayglo? Though you're sure to feel it the day after, what you had jesterday.

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Belly laugh! Thank you.

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I can. I ate a pure vegan meal the other day. It was perfect. And it gave me a ton of good feeling and energy. A big salad and a steak. It felt great. I find eating a steak is the best way to be vegan. Very efficient. Because what is a steak other than condensed grass?

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I’m of the mindset that if God/ Mother Nature wanted humans to be vegetarian/vegan than we should be able to obtain B12 from plants. We can’t. However, on the flip side CAFO meat is unhealthy but affordable for many. Eat meat, but less of it and then you may be able to splurge on quality sources.

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Yes, absolutely my credo.

We have evolved into omnivores, and our teeth are the proof. We have both incisors and molars.

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Yes. People often think primates are vegetarian, and some of them are, but the main line that led to us has probably been omnivorous from the beginning. Vegetarian species generally have longer intestinal tracts, and those of humans are a lot shorter than those of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees. Chimpanzees do eat meat, and some of them organize expeditions to hunt monkeys in the trees.

Beachcombing was probably a primary human adaptation that distinguished us from the chimps about six million years ago, and in that case, seafood would have accounted for that increase in carnivory.

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This! There are several nutrients that are unattainable in the plant world

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That’s one way to help people kick their fast food addiction.

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Kudos to all the parents keeping their kids away from it!

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Who eats that crap anymore?

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"With meat, bitch!" is the appropriate response? Asking for a friend.

No wait, the friend says 'MacDonalds'...

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😂😂😂😂😂💯🙌🏻

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You got to love the semantics involved, portraying artificial technically edible patties as normal and therefore meat as not normal.

All the while the same kind of people who go in for this usually decries any useage of the word "normal". As in, normal men and normal women. Normal sexual relationships. Normal marriage. Normal height and normal build and normal skin tone and normal constitution and normal food and normal childhood and normal children.

Normal society.

Make Society Normal Again.

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And, pray tell, for exactly which values of "normal"?

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Normal values, obviously.

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The only solution is to boycott with your dollar, walk away to assist them in seeing the error of their ways. They can clue in, or go bankrupt, the choice is theirs.

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This reminds of a new dog food I saw at Petco the other day. Based on crickets! The label said it was “humane”. I guess bug lives don’t matter?

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No, they do not. And they cry out for us to help them in their plight, but what do you hear from the left? Crickets.

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I didn’t look but will next time. Makes me queasy. Here ya go: https://images.app.goo.gl/ekH7LvMJixe3TFyUA

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Burger Führer.

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Profit margins. They always tell us in the media that it takes hundreds of kilo's of soy to produce one kilo of beef. These soy "patties" only contain 100 gram of soy, yet they often sell it for more than 100 gram of beef.

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They want us to eat bugs... That push has already started

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You vill eat ze bugs and you vill declare them delicious!

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Buzzfeed at some point in the future: "Here are 10 studies that show bug protein is better than animal protein"

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"People who prefer animal protein have dark triad traits."

"Don't like insect protein? Are you okay?"

"Trump supporters overwhelmingly carnivorous, racist, experts say"

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Oh, eating meat is totally racist. Just ask all those overall-wearing, banjo-picking, truck-driving, MAGA cap-wearing idiots who worship Orange Man and object to our current Earth-loving administration.

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I love how Pelosi scolded all the Republicans for going against the Inflation Reduction Act by accusing them of "voting against Mother Nature."

When I saw her give that speech I told my brother they should float a bill legalizing pedophilia and call it the We Love Children Act so they can accuse dissenters of hating children.

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You've been at the crystal ball again. "MAPS" ("Minor-Attracted Persons") are NOT pedophiles, they just aren't, let's get that straight. Oops. I think it's time we outlaw that word "straight".

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There’s even a new dog food based on crickets!

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Watch even the dogs say no to it

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Our 16-year old Parson's Terrier gets raw meat daily - beef shanks cost $2.99 a pound here. The cheapest beef by far (we ourselves rarely splurge on good beef, but that's by choice). A can of "good" dog food, which I guess means it has exciting, beautiful images of wolves and their prey on the can ("Taste of the Factory Floor") goes for $2.99 here these days. It's not rocket science. And she is thriving on it, acts like a puppy.

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