I once saw a study saying that eating organic vegetables rather than the cheaper conventionally grown ones had no measurable health effects so you should be fine eating the cheaper conventionally grown ones. They're still as good for you. Also, sometimes you can get lower-graded vegetables cheaper. The grading is purely cosmetic, the vegetables themselves are just as tasty and healthy.
As for staples like pasta, rice and flour the cheap versions are completely fine. Higher quality pasta is better at soaking up sauce, higher quality rice has better aroma and larger grain size but the cheap stuff is just as healthy and nutritious.
Danish Public Schools in Crisis: Nearly 12% of Students Now Failing Basic Exams
Denmark’s public education system is crumbling. A new report from the Economic Council of the Labour Movement paints a bleak picture of educational decline, rising inequality, and mounting despair among the country’s working-class youth.
In the school year 2023/24, nearly 12 percent of Danish ninth-grade students failed both Danish and mathematics in their final exams, marking the highest failure rate since 2012. The trend is not isolated but growing, with failure rates increasing across all regions and social groups. The consequences are severe: without these basic qualifications, further education becomes nearly inaccessible, placing tens of thousands of children on a trajectory toward economic and social marginalization.
Do you know how to cook food that people want to eat? Do you know how to do it without products of animal origin? Congratulations, you are much more qualified at what you do than these experts.
The equivalent would be to declare that grass-fed beef is vegan and trying to cook a steak in a coffee maker.
It is not uncommon for western "experts" to know jack shit about what they're formally an expert in. They will know just enough to keep the machines running and do the paperwork. If they are experts in a field without that many machines or that much paperwork they can be completely amateurs and nobody will bat an eyelid.
It is not just geopolitically charged fields, like China experts, it is also much less contentious fields without the same pressure to reach politically charged conclusions. Western academia seems to have a profound disdain for learning beyond immediate economic utility. For instance, I recently learned that the leading researcher on Buddhism at a major Danish university doesn't speak Sanskrit, doesn't speak Chinese and doesn't speak Tibetan. They learned a little Japanese once but have long forgotten it. They are brought on mainstream media and treated as an expert.
Stricter requirements and more efficient enforcement would also have a preventative effect. Once people realise that they can get in real trouble for driving like assholes they will drive better.
For me it's cleaning. There's so much of it to do every single day, day out and day in and it never stops. And to add insult to injury the mess and the clutter adds to the baseline stress level that makes everything, including cleaning, harder to do.
It is kind of hard to make good drama out of "everybody is doing farming and helping eachother to get the best out of a shitty situation". It is a lot easier to imagine a good narrative when there's conflict, danger and violence in the picture. The capitalist idea of "human nature" as inherently selfish and evil also push writers towards the more violent narratives.
But could you make a good and engaging narrative based on the premise that humans are inherently good and altruistic? While danger makes a story engaging that danger doesn't have to come from Mad Max style psychos in bondage gear. The dangers facing the post-apocalyptical society could be the dangers connected to surviving in a world where all supply chains and infrastructure is gone and people have to relearn subsistence farming fast not to starve to death. The danger could also come from the before times, like radioactive fallout or whatever. You could even throw a few leather enthusiasts with guns in the mix but present them as the unsustainable anomaly such marauders would be.
Yes. Since I am also the head of state of a sovereign country I have of course done all of these things myself first so people online will not call me a hypocrite.
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I once saw a study saying that eating organic vegetables rather than the cheaper conventionally grown ones had no measurable health effects so you should be fine eating the cheaper conventionally grown ones. They're still as good for you. Also, sometimes you can get lower-graded vegetables cheaper. The grading is purely cosmetic, the vegetables themselves are just as tasty and healthy.
As for staples like pasta, rice and flour the cheap versions are completely fine. Higher quality pasta is better at soaking up sauce, higher quality rice has better aroma and larger grain size but the cheap stuff is just as healthy and nutritious.