usernamesAreTricky

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3 yr. ago

https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-neutral-cows-algae/

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 3mo ago

This is mostly greenwashing and false hype by the beef industry with misleading numbers

What’s more, feeding cattle algae is really only practical where it’s least needed: on feedlots. This is where most cattle are crowded in the final months of their 1.5- to 2-year lives to rapidly put on weight before slaughter. There, algae feed additives can be churned into the cows’ grain and soy feed. But on feedlots, cattle already belch less methane—only 11 percent of their lifetime output
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Unfortunately, adding the algae to diets on the pasture, where it’s most needed, isn’t a feasible option either. Out on grazing lands, it’s difficult to get cows to eat additives because they don’t like the taste of red algae unless it’s diluted into feed. And even if we did find ways to sneak algae in somehow, there’s a good chance their gut microbes would adapt and adjust, bringing their belches’ methane right back to high levels.
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All told, if we accept the most promising claims of the algae boosters, we’re talking about an 80 percent reduction of methane among only 11 percent of all burps—roughly an 8.8 percent reduction total

4mo ago

Food Safety Complaints for Meat, Poultry, and Eggs Spiked 40% in 2025 to Record High

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

In the meantime, there's a lot of great recipes with beans, lentils, tofu, etc.

5mo ago

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 5mo ago

Don't see a paywall on my end, but https://archive.is/VKgxt should work

Technology @lemmy.world

www.theverge.com /tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

5mo ago

Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines

sentientmedia.org /cattle-raised-for-beef-are-heavier-than-ever/

6mo ago

Cattle Raised for Beef Are Heavier Than Ever, Raising New Concerns in the Industry About Animal Health and Welfare

politics @lemmy.world

www.democracydocket.com /news-alerts/in-blow-to-trump-indiana-rejects-gop-gerrymander/

8mo ago

In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander

8mo ago

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

Have you tried just compiling it with fewer threads? Would almost certainly reduce the RAM usage, and might even make the compile go faster if it you're needing to swap that heavily

10mo ago

People ask vegans what they eat

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

It's now just a bit more. Just a little bit really

10mo ago

People ask vegans what they eat

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

Hoisin sauce is typically vegan as is soy sauce and teriyaki among many others

10mo ago

People ask vegans what they eat

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 10mo ago

So you say, yet there is more room to increase it

sentientmedia.org /contract-farming-makes-corporations-rich-and-family-farmers-broke/

11mo ago

How Contract Farming Makes Big Corporations Rich And Family Farmers Broke | 90 percent of all chicken farmed in the U.S. is the product of contract farming

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net

11mo ago

Cow manure just killed 6 workers on a dairy farm. It happens more than you’d think.

archive.is /Ialae

11mo ago

Denmark’s ambitious plan to boost plant-based foods

politics @lemmy.world

thehill.com /homenews/administration/5466417-abrego-garcia-immigration-battle/

12mo ago

Abrego Garcia released from prison, headed to family

12mo ago

Thank you for your service

https://lemmy.ml/post/34748813

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

The council (me) has decided that I too actually wanted to see bean memes again. It has bean started again

12mo ago

Thank you for your service

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

Now you're getting it!

12mo ago

Thank you for your service

usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml 12mo ago

Be the change you want to see in the world and post beans

investigatemidwest.org /2025/08/13/faster-lines-less-federal-oversight-and-rising-risks-at-us-pork-and-poultry-plants/

12mo ago

Faster lines, less federal oversight and rising risks at US pork and poultry plants

1y ago

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https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.3939

Honey production is not exactly exploitation free. For instance, queen bees often have their wings clipped or are intentionally killed to be replaced by another

Moreover, honey production also out competes native/wild bee populations which hurts them. Especially since honeybees are heavily used well outside their native ranges

We found compelling evidence that honey bee introductions indirectly decrease pollination by reducing nectar and pollen availability and competitively excluding visits from more effective native bees. In contrast, the direct impact of honey bee visits on pollination was negligible, and, if anything, negative. Honey bees were ineffective pollinators, and increasing visit quantity could not compensate for inferior visit quality

1y ago

First they fixate over protein metrics, and now they don't want the actual protein synthesis? Having high intake of amino acids was already not doing most of what they claimed, but now we're just gonna have our body not even use them? What a waste of resources. 0/10 (/s)

politics @lemmy.world

wskg.org /regional-news/2025-08-04/binghamton-mayor-says-police-department-will-not-partner-with-ice

1y ago

Republican Binghamton mayor says police department will not partner with ICE

1y ago

Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York

I interpreted the word "this" in the original comment to mean at "New York, specifically" since that was the original topic for the reply. Maybe that's not what you intended, but I think that's how most people in this chain read it and understood it

1y ago

Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York

Yes, it should be banned, but it should be banned nationally. Why focus on the people responding to an egregious behavior? Stop Texas from doing it, then it won't spread. If they go through and dems don't respond in kind, the voters will has already been subverted. What are we protecting really but republican power?

Texas dems have left the state to block quorum (Texas requires 2/3 legislature present to operate) so that Texas legislature can't put the bill through. Keep the pressure on Text first and foremost instead of focusing rage at the people actually trying to fight back. It's not a given that any of the response will be needed, but if that is needed, we must do it. If Republicans maximize gerrymandering of every state and there is no counterbalance, our republic will struggle to hold on. There will be no saving of the voter will if a party that wants to destroy it is left to continue holding the reigns

1y ago

Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York

This is in response to Texas trying to doing it abruptly 5 years before redistricting. They will do every damn other state with Republican trifectas if dems don't response in kind

Taking the high road doesn't work. Unilateral disarmament is not the move here. It's either banned for all or none. Republicans have been chipping away at any federal requirements against it for decades and using that to their advantage

1y ago

Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats

Saw someone do a rough estimate mapped out all states with current trifectas and found that neither side could lock in a majority if that went to the max and could make maps that went 100% one side or another. Republicans in that scenario have a slight edge, but still 84 seats that wouldn't be decided by gerrymandering alone (how much of a swing district it actually is may vary). It was a rough estimate so take it with a grain of salt. That also assumed that the states with independent legislative committees all remove said committees and that the Voting Rights Act becomes 100% gutted

State and local elections are going to matter a lot even if it doesn't go to that extreme scenario. Make sure to always vote in them. Virginia and New Jersey have important statewide elections coming up this off-year in November

1y ago

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting

Good news doesn't break through half as much as bad news does. State dems have often (though not always) shown much more resolve to do stuff like this than the national party has

Earlier this year in Maine, the governor challenged Trump to his face on his illegal attempts to cut school lunch money funding over a single digit number of trans athletes in the state. She won in court and Trump folded and gave the money back

Earlier this year in Minnesota, a judge ruled a dem wasn't able to go to office on a technicality (that Republicans only brought up after he won). That seat changed the house from tied to 1 seat GOP, and so Dems then did not show up to deny quorum until after a special election took place. The republicans tried to force operations and operated without a quorum. Dems sued and got a judge to rule every single one of the republican's actions was invalid because it was without quorum. They then won the special election and only then started back up state legislative operations

There are people willing to do the work. Show up to every damn primary and vote to make sure they are the dominant force in the party

1y ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene knifes GOP as she goes rogue