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AlligatorBlizzard
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I was in class when the debate happened, and too much Trump is exhausting - I’m watching the Daily Show recap right now. Something I’ve noticed is that somebody actually did Trump’s makeup correctly for the debate, he didn’t look like an Oompa Loompa for once.
If you’re in a bigger city, maybe see if you can get work with IATSE doing stagehand stuff?
Abolish the corn welfare system. 95% of corn is not grown for human consumption. Let’s grow more of our own food.
Uh… I am not opposed to this, as a vegetarian, but… uh… the logical conclusion of this policy would be extremely unpopular. The corn that’s not for human consumption is used in industrial and manufactured products (and ethanol, which is something we actually should get rid of, it just doesn’t make sense as a product) and in livestock feed lots. If you stop subsidizing corn, meat gets more expensive.
They might have been asking about methane production, that’s a big topic for cattle because it’s a very potent greenhouse gas and having a lot of cattle produces a lot of methane - and it’s a byproduct of how their digestive systems work and all ruminants, sheep included, have that problem to some degree.
I wasn’t able to find a definitive answer, but per animal sheep aren’t as bad, but it’s due to their smaller size and if western countries kept eating the same amount of meat but ate more sheep (due to it being cheaper from the demand for sheep condoms, lol) instead of beef I’m not sure it would be better. (Replacing chicken with sheep would definitely be worse though.)