The application of Lysenkoism theory in Chinese agriculture during the 1950s led to a devastating potato blight that was wrongly attributed to environmental factors, causing a significant decrease in potato production. Communist botany during this period often involved grafting and cross-breeding various plant species, resulting in fanciful and scientifically impossible claims.
The blame game in the climate crisis between individual consumers and corporate polluters is illusory and unwise to reduce climate denial to just a function of money and manipulation as it threatens to unravel something deeper, that which gives meaning to life.
The increase in meat consumption has led to a decrease in our ability to afford the unprocessed foods we once ate, as meat prices have become more affordable due to advancements in the meat industry. This increase in meat consumption has caused a change in our diets over the past century.
In this podcast episode, the hosts discuss the ethics of milk production, specifically the use of oat milk as an alternative. They debate whether cow's milk production is ethical, given the separation of calves from their mothers.
The speaker discusses how the human body processes meat and dairy, explaining that the body recognizes it as self and may not digest it properly.