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Bacon shortage 'unavoidable'
Re: Bacon shortage 'unavoidable'
by Keith_McClary » Sun 30 Sep 2012, 21:03:47
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vtsnowedin', 'N')otice that no one is talking about or worried over any approching tofu shortage.
Jakarta Merchants Strike as Indonesia's Tofu and Tempe Shortage Continues$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'J')akarta residents with a craving for tofu or tempe might have a hard time finding the ubiquitous soybean staples this week after the capital's tempe and tofu sellers went on strike in protest of rising soybean prices.
“The tempe and tofu sellers are on strike because they hardly make any profit since the soybean prices have increased from Rp 600,000 per 100 kilograms into Rp 800,000 per 100 kilograms,” Tri said on Wednesday.
Sellers of tofu and tempe — both an important part of Indonesian cuisine — across Jakarta are feeling the squeeze after a US drought and lower yields sent prices soaring. In the past three weeks alone, soybean prices rose to Rp 8,000 a kilogram, according to Sutaryo, the business head of the Confederation of Indonesian Tofu and Tempe Makers Cooperative (Primkopti).
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Re: Bacon shortage 'unavoidable'
by dissident » Sun 30 Sep 2012, 21:35:38
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'S')aturated fats never were the culprit. It's always been about the metabolic syndrome. Diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, elevated LDL, cardiovascular disease are associated with the growth hormones, in particular insulin.
I eat virtually no white sugar anymore, a small amount of carbs (occasionally as beer) and an incredible amount of meat& meat fats. Lucky to have really inexpensive, local, grass-fed hamburger everywhere around here. HAPPY DAYS! I will morn the loss of pork, though. It is the go-to Happy Meal.
I eat virtually no white sugar anymore, a small amount of carbs (occasionally as beer) and an incredible amount of meat& meat fats. Lucky to have really inexpensive, local, grass-fed hamburger everywhere around here. HAPPY DAYS! I will morn the loss of pork, though. It is the go-to Happy Meal.
The big pharma medical establishment line on cholesterol and its "badness" and the source of heart disease are complete rubbish. Yes, the established "scientific" consensus can be nonsense. For example take statins which are touted as some sort of miracle drug. The whole concept behind this drug screams quackery. It is a coenzyme Q10 blocker that has as a side effect reduction of LDL levels. This coenzyme plays the main role in a myriad of metabolic chemical pathways and blocking it is no different than bleeding a patient the way they used to do back in the good old days of medicine. The statin miracle durgs can kill you as happened with Baycol, Bayer's product that the FDA approved and later yanked (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerivastatin).
LDL levels are a symptom and not a cause. Even the tags "bad" and "good" cholesterol are inane, there is simply no such distinction as both are essential for life. The media spreads myths such as dietary cholesterol accounts for high LDL levels and used to claim eggs are bad for you. No, what is bad for you is eating starch and sugar at levels that humans never evolved to eat. Americans and many others in the developed world eat 10 times more sugar today than they did 100 years ago. They also consume nitrates and nitrites that are free radical oxidizers which damage LDL molecules causing a host of nasty effects such as the immune system thinking the oxidized LDL molecules are foreign and leading to inflammation of arterial walls.
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Re: Bacon shortage 'unavoidable'
by jupiters_release » Mon 01 Oct 2012, 16:02:20
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'L')ucky to have really inexpensive, local, grass-fed hamburger everywhere around here. HAPPY DAYS! I will morn the loss of pork, though. It is the go-to Happy Meal.
I'm still surprised you're not worried about the bioaccumulation of Daiichi radionuclides in your beef. Cows eat a lot of grass, how much of it got stored in their meat and fat? Of course dairy is/was worse.
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I get a juicy beef craving maybe once a month, but luckily have enough local pork to satisfy. Sand dabs are back in season btw. 
