It's not zero evidence, it's just not 100% certain. There have had known H5N1 infections in other mammals consuming raw milk that spilled. Many of them have died from it. Additionally, the testing that has happened shows that 1 in 5 US dairy samples are positive for H5N1 so it's prevelence is rather high making there be a very real risk
Two new studies upend decades of research on the ways animals and insects learn.
The paper shows its funding source The paper was published by authors from universities funded by government grants
The research leading to these results was funded by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), under Grant 613960 (SMARTBEES) and by the Dipartimento diScienze AgroAlimentari, Ambientali e Animali, University of Udine, Italy.
Here another talking about the sugar water use and harm if you don't trust the first
The immune system is one of the animals’ most expensive physiological systems to maintain, especially when food is deficient in proteins [2,11,12], which is extremely frequent in commercially kept colonies, usually fed on sugar syrup
And for author information:
Funding
The study was supported by the Eastern Apicultural Society of North America (grant awarded to E.T.), and by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (Grant No III46002 awarded to the project led by Zoran Stanimirovic). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Acknowledgments
Authors are thankful to the beekeepers from West Serbia (Sjenica, Prijepolje, Tutin, Raška, Novi Pazar and Priboj) for allowing the access to their honey bee colonies
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
It's worth noting whatever's left is often still not enough to survive the winter. They often replace it with a form of sugar water that doesn't give the bees what they need
From a study looking at the harms of this replacement:
However, the amount of HMF that can be found in homemade syrups, which increases with temperature and acidity, can be much higher and can cause significant bee mortality. Moreover, we highlighted the detrimental effect of syrups acidity on honeybee survival, suggesting that the addition of lemon or any other acidifying substance to invert the sucrose could be harmful and not necessary.
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13592-020-00745-6.pdf
From a less scientific source but talking about practices more broadly:
To harvest the honey, beekeepers either smoke the bees to subdue them, or trap them with a clearing board over one or two days. Others kill the colony altogether.
Oftentimes, beekeepers replace the honey they remove with a sugar water substitute. This practice prompts honeybees to overwork themselves to replace the missing honey. Meanwhile, the sugar water lacks the nutrients, fats, and vitamins that bees need to be healthy.
https://plantbasednews.org/culture/ethics/is-honey-vegan-the-not-so-sweet-truth/
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/08/australian-red-meat-industry-says-it-doesnt-need-to-meet-its-self-imposed-net-zero-target
Nitrogen, phosphorus, chloride, oil and cyanide among the 371m lb of pollutants released by just 41 plants in five years
It is not well defined. Because an order of summation is not given you could just as easily sum pairs of (0,1), (-1,2), (-2,3), (-3,4)... (-x, x+1) and conclude you are constantly adding 1 to your total so it goes to infinity instead
Or do the reverse of (-1,0), (-2,1), ... (-x-1, x) and get that the each pair adds -1 so the sum goes to negative Infinity
Order of the addition sometimes changes infinite sums. Infinitely large things are weird sometimes
The South Dakota governor, defending her tale of shooting and killing her family’s dog, suggested that President Biden’s German shepherd, Commander, had merited a similar fate.
All plant-based foods, whole-foods or not, have lower emissions than animal products
EDIT with a source:
Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits
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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].
Switching to a plant-based diet could save lives.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160448/meat-bestiality-artificial-insemination
According to series animator Vincent Waller, "there is absolutely no meat in the Krabby Patty. There's no animal product in there", something which was always planned by series creator Stephen Hillenburg.[9]
...
he stated that there is no meat served in Bikini Bottom except at the Chum Bucket.
This is all missing the point. People are claiming it's carbon free or low emission when it is still substantially higher than other things. The beef industry loves to promote this as if it solves beef emissions. It does not. The emissions are still very much there. If it was touted as a small reduction that would be one thing
This is all missing the point. People are claiming it's carbon free or low emission when it is still substantially higher than other things. The beef industry loves to promote this as if it solves beef emissions. It does not. The emissions are still very much there. If it was touted as a small reduction that would be one thing
This is all missing the point. People are claiming it's carbon free or low emission when it is still substantially higher than other things. The beef industry loves to promote this as if it solves beef emissions. It does not. The emissions are still very much there. If it was touted as a small reduction that would be one thing
Redefining the counterfactual scenario. Why ignore the case of less beef production out of hand? Beef consumption has been declining over time in a number of countries. Then proceed to ignore the rest of the article's main point after that one word
Beef is an enormous outlier in emissions and they are pointing out that the claims that supposedly reduce it are highly missleading. They're not much of a reduction. People tout it as if the emissions were gone. They're nowhere near that
Redefining the counterfactual scenario. Why ignore the case of less beef production out of hand? Beef consumption has been declining over time in a number of countries. Then proceed to ignore the rest of the article's main point after that one word
Beef is an enormous outlier in emissions and they are pointing out that the claims that supposedly reduce it are highly missleading. They're not much of a reduction. People tout it as if the emissions were gone. They're nowhere near that
Definitional retreat – changing the meaning of a word when an objection is raised.[22] Often paired with moving the goalposts (see below), as when an argument is challenged using a common definition of a term in the argument, and the arguer presents a different definition of the term and thereby demands different evidence to debunk the argument.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground fallacy, or golden mean fallacy[1]—is the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites.
That's the ideal case, but in practice much of it is directly derived from natural gas instead of electrolysis
In 2022 less than 1% of hydrogen production was low-carbon.[1] Fossil fuels are the dominant source of hydrogen, for example by steam reforming of natural gas.[2]
The very first thing they talk about is grapples and how they're no longer sold. Then they recreating it by looking at the instructions in the patent for it from the company once making grapples
Even thousands of years ago, it still involved great expense to the environment. Human arrivals on continents coincides with extinctions of megafauna
I mean it still should still be horrfying, just that it should something to be worried about globally rather than just locally
Yep, for a source for others about the plastic bit
The system that strips off the plastic wrappings can’t capture it all, and so in the UK a limit of 0.15% of plastic is allowed by the Food Standards Agency. The official EU level for plastic permitted in animal feed is zero although in reality many other countries operate within the same 0.15% limit.
I hopped aboard a tuna tour to investigate what it takes to confine these majestic apex predators.
I assume this is probably not in good faith, but answering anyway for a reminder to others
From just trump and the US alone:
There was the child sepeation policy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
His appointments to the Supreme Court has led to abortion being banned in 14 different states across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/nov/10/state-abortion-laws-us
Gender affirming care is now much restricted in a number of US states with constant threats at larger bans of all care
And so much more
In the UK, the right wing government has helped o underfund the NHS and make service worse
There's a lot of damage that can be done. Just because it may not be as visible to one person, doesn't mean it does not exist
To be fair, from a quick glance, a good chunck of those articles are about ChatGPT/other AI and showing output from it as examples in the text
Though there are certain many that are not related to AI that show up in the results.....
To be fair my suspicious is steam deck users likely make up a larger chunk of recent desktop Linux growth and aren't (as) likely to go to typical linux spaces online. Though since this is based on browser data, I also wonder how many steam deck users are actually browsing the web on them, so perhaps that my be a bad assumption on my part
The number of pigs slaughtered for meat in the UK fell to 10 million in 2023, its lowest level in a decade
The number of pigs slaughtered for meat in the UK fell to 10 million in 2023, its lowest level in a decade
A North Atlantic right whale that washed ashore is renewing a bitter fight between whale advocates and Maine lobster fishers over how to save an ocean giant near extinction.
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A UC Davis professor runs an academic center that was conceived by a trade group, according to records, and gets most of its funding from farming interests.
A UC Davis professor runs an academic center that was conceived by a trade group, according to records, and gets most of its funding from farming interests.
