Effective Altruism The Netherlands’s Seed Valley develops the next generation of seeds, hopefully leading to the next Green Revolution. Some animal rights abolitionists (people who oppose animals being legally property) are opposed to animal welfare legislation because those laws presuppose the idea of owning animals. However, they should
"About 40% of British people experience “meat shame”, or feelings of guilt, remorse, and shame related to eating meat"
Looking at the report, they got their sample by recruiting a "representative sample" on Prolific. However, the only representativeness Prolific gives you is by "age, sex and ethnicity". In my experience making surveys on Prolific, they are quite unrepresentative in other ways, for instance with most people being irreligious. Since religion is tightly linked to conservative ideology and veganism is linked to progressive ideology, I would expect that the low religiosity on Prolific is reflective of a general progressivism that also shows up in higher rates of veganism.
absolutely wild that both the title and the article of the Atlantic piece about ice cream concern the possibility that ice cream is unexpectedly good for you, and the hyperlink STILL SAYS ". . .ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study"
> Going forward, they suggest that researchers honor animals’ individuality by naming them whenever possible; seek animals’ agreement to engage in research tasks; and describe welfare conditions clearly so that future researchers know whether to discount the research findings because of poor welfare conditions.
I have to say that this strikes me as an unhelpful mixing of concerns that will likely get the scientific parts of the proposal to be taken less seriously.
> The standard environmental movement wants to preserve the environment as it was before human involvement. The environmental justice movement combines environmentalism and civil rights to focus on how the effects of pollution have disproportionately harmed people of color.
Huh, I wouldn't have realized to distinguish these two, only the first two vs the third...
> If humanity dies out, the bones of broiler chickens may serve as evidence that an industrial civilization existed.
OK but the article doesn't contain any pictures contrasting chicken skeletons over time! They talk about how striking the difference is, but they don't show it!
From what I've heard, the law that children must care for their aging parents in China comes from a similar moral place as laws in the West that parents must care for their children. It would be cruel to abandon them! What else are they supposed to do?
Also apparently this law is rarely enforced, because parents are rarely willing to sue their kids.
This is an *excellent* way of choosing which video games to play. Or which movies to watch, for that matter. Black sheep that pique my curiousity, even when they turn out to be flawed, are usually more memorable than highly adequate products that tick all the correct boxes.
Interesting that US pedestrian deaths reacherd a minimum around 2015 then began to rise again. Whereas rates in EU countries tend to decrease monotonically sunce at least the 90s.
Thinking about SUVs, Land Rover had to stop making the defender for several years in the mid 10s while they worked on upgrading the bodywork to be complaint with stricter EU pedestrian safety standards.
My partner wants to lose weight. Ice cream makes her so, so happy, that she decided no weight loss was worth never eating it. We developed habits around it to keep it in moderation, but she very much continuse to enjoy it multiple times a week.
I showed her the ice cream health article, and she was so full of complete joy.
"It makes sense! Ice cream makes a bad day good. It makes a good day also good."
"About 40% of British people experience “meat shame”, or feelings of guilt, remorse, and shame related to eating meat"
Looking at the report, they got their sample by recruiting a "representative sample" on Prolific. However, the only representativeness Prolific gives you is by "age, sex and ethnicity". In my experience making surveys on Prolific, they are quite unrepresentative in other ways, for instance with most people being irreligious. Since religion is tightly linked to conservative ideology and veganism is linked to progressive ideology, I would expect that the low religiosity on Prolific is reflective of a general progressivism that also shows up in higher rates of veganism.
absolutely wild that both the title and the article of the Atlantic piece about ice cream concern the possibility that ice cream is unexpectedly good for you, and the hyperlink STILL SAYS ". . .ice-cream-bad-for-you-health-study"
> Going forward, they suggest that researchers honor animals’ individuality by naming them whenever possible; seek animals’ agreement to engage in research tasks; and describe welfare conditions clearly so that future researchers know whether to discount the research findings because of poor welfare conditions.
I have to say that this strikes me as an unhelpful mixing of concerns that will likely get the scientific parts of the proposal to be taken less seriously.
> The standard environmental movement wants to preserve the environment as it was before human involvement. The environmental justice movement combines environmentalism and civil rights to focus on how the effects of pollution have disproportionately harmed people of color.
Huh, I wouldn't have realized to distinguish these two, only the first two vs the third...
> If humanity dies out, the bones of broiler chickens may serve as evidence that an industrial civilization existed.
OK but the article doesn't contain any pictures contrasting chicken skeletons over time! They talk about how striking the difference is, but they don't show it!
From what I've heard, the law that children must care for their aging parents in China comes from a similar moral place as laws in the West that parents must care for their children. It would be cruel to abandon them! What else are they supposed to do?
Also apparently this law is rarely enforced, because parents are rarely willing to sue their kids.
Your monthly linkposts are a highlight of my Substack feed. Thanks for the awesome content!
This is an *excellent* way of choosing which video games to play. Or which movies to watch, for that matter. Black sheep that pique my curiousity, even when they turn out to be flawed, are usually more memorable than highly adequate products that tick all the correct boxes.
Interesting that US pedestrian deaths reacherd a minimum around 2015 then began to rise again. Whereas rates in EU countries tend to decrease monotonically sunce at least the 90s.
Thinking about SUVs, Land Rover had to stop making the defender for several years in the mid 10s while they worked on upgrading the bodywork to be complaint with stricter EU pedestrian safety standards.
https://streets.mn/2020/10/14/chart-of-the-day-pedestrian-fatalities-per-capita-us-v-others/
My partner wants to lose weight. Ice cream makes her so, so happy, that she decided no weight loss was worth never eating it. We developed habits around it to keep it in moderation, but she very much continuse to enjoy it multiple times a week.
I showed her the ice cream health article, and she was so full of complete joy.
"It makes sense! Ice cream makes a bad day good. It makes a good day also good."
You should definitely play Pentiment! It's great. And if you came for the fonts you won't be disappointed.