Food and drink

[Montegriffo]

Yeah, likely true. I'm doing some reading on them, sounds like with decent feed they get to about 500lbs by age 15, they think they can live to about 50 years.

Amazingly, Bluefin wasn't really used by the Japs until 60s or 70s.

Only became popular with the rise of sushi.
Raw fish BTW contains not only bacteria but also parasites. Added bonus are the heavy metals and radioactivity found in large preditors.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Yeah, likely true. I'm doing some reading on them, sounds like with decent feed they get to about 500lbs by age 15, they think they can live to about 50 years.

Amazingly, Bluefin wasn't really used by the Japs until 60s or 70s.

Only became popular with the rise of sushi.
Raw fish BTW contains not only bacteria but also parasites. Added bonus are the heavy metals and radioactivity found in large preditors.

It's goddamn delicious, though.

Sashimi has been around forever. It just got 'democratized' by industrial fishing, and is no longer the diet of the elite few.

[C-Mag]

Public Enemy No. 1


It looks like to me the Sports Fishing crowd(and a few celebrities) are the big push behind conservation of these fish. Not just tuna, but also marlin, sharks, swordfish, etc.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Public Enemy No. 1


It looks like to me the Sports Fishing crowd(and a few celebrities) are the big push behind conservation of these fish. Not just tuna, but also marlin, sharks, swordfish, etc.

This. We simply got way too good at 'harvesting' wild animals, and never bothered to restrict market hunting in the oceans. Now we have thousands of boats dragging mile-long nets around, and destroying swaths of it, 24/7/365. There's no way it ends, until the entire resource is gone.

[C-Mag]

We developed corporate food production to meet the needs of rising population globally, but the more we fed people and the better medicine got, the bigger the problem got. Now we have the entire globe reliant on corporate food production.


We could see a real Oh, Fuck moment in the future. Famines are all over the historical record, and I don't think we're immune to it.

[SuburbanFarmer]

We developed corporate food production to meet the needs of rising population globally, but the more we fed people and the better medicine got, the bigger the problem got. Now we have the entire globe reliant on corporate food production.


We could see a real Oh, Fuck moment in the future. Famines are all over the historical record, and I don't think we're immune to it.

It’s pretty inevitable, at least for those with no alternative to industrial food sources.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Stop the presses:

Division of labor and industrial food production is better than hacking tubers out of the cold, hard earth for your under-nourished family.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Stop the presses:

Division of labor and industrial food production is better than hacking tubers out of the cold, hard earth for your under-nourished family.

There’s a middle ground somewhere between bland chemical soups, and subsistence farming.

[Fife]

[Montegriffo]

ZZ Top have not aged well.