But it was rather quickly discovered that everything being reported on the nature of the Amazon fires was wrong: they aren't at a record-setting levels, they aren't caused by people eating too much meat and the Amazon isn't even 'the lungs of the planet'. Many of the pictures featured in widely shared memes, shared by the likes of celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Emmanuel Macron, aren't even recent photos, and some of them aren't even of the Amazon.
Why is such a seemingly carefully constructed disinformation campaign coming out now and why is it getting so much traction? And why pin it on meat-eating?
Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we dig in to the great Amazon fire disinformation campaign, debunking some of the widely spread rumors and examining what's really going on here.
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[Link] Where's the Beef
Also, would all this pressure on Brasil would be happening now if the left was still in control of Brasil?
Maybe they have a guilty conscience? Shakespeare said it best: "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." Enquiring minds want to know, if in their dreams at night, little lambs and baby chickens point their hooves and feathers at them and say, "J'accuse!"
Dear boy, soon, at my age, it will be the worms. The whole system is called "ecology." (Unless I get cremated and deny the worms their rightful due. In that case some shrubs, somewhere, will benefit from my ashes. In either case, I will doubtless be more use to the planet dead than alive.)
I have no wish to take sides in the ecological battles of who eats whom, or what eats which, but was just pointing out the obsession of these dear editors with their favored diet. I also usually read the Unz Review, New Eastern Outlook, Fort-Russ, Russia Today, Strategic-Culture, and many more sites offering news and opinion on world events, and nowhere else do I find these articles on diet - incessantly, repetitively, and paralytically boringly.
SOTT editors also seem to be very defensive about smoking, to which they are evidently addicted, and love to run those articles too. So are a lot of people their age, until they get older and have to carry around a tank of oxygen and have plastic tubes stuck up their nostrils everywhere they go. Fine. It is their body to destroy and turn into rotten and smelly cancerous tissue, but please leave the rest of us out of your crusade. Please! There are more important things to read about and talk about than your putrid lungs or your cancerous colon.
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From recent news reports, it has come to our attention that smoking is a vice that "leaders" around the world are determined to stamp out. But why? The official story is that our ever benevolent...Precisely.... Even Laura, the crusader for anti-psychopathy and government non-interference. I entirely support the right of everyone to nurture their lung cancers and intestinal polyps, so long as I am not asked to pay for them to be treated at vast public expense when they finally metastasize.
People should be entirely free to smoke, drink, eat hormone-saturated beef, go bungee jumping, pilot a kayak over Niagara Falls, and jump out of aeroplanes with improperly-folded parachutes, if that is how they choose to use the bodies they were born with. If their families cannot stop them, the government should not try either. I do, however, object to the newspapers calling such events "tragedies." They are, rather, triumphs of human free will and indisputable proof of Darwin's theories.
Hope you might come back and see this comment....
Just got around to reading the whole thing. OK, nicotine sounds like it might have positive effects, just like cannabis and many other vegetable compounds. However, cigarettes contain dozens of added "secret" chemicals, to keep them burning instead of going out, which they would do if left to themselves, and to increase the effects of the nicotine. Moreover, the burning of tobacco produces many other compounds. For example, some plastics like nylon when burned release cyanide gas. Who knows what other compounds are in cigarette smoke? Probably hundreds of them. Those added compounds plus the effects of combustion could be the sources of the reported carcinogenicity.
You really are full of silliness.
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