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[–] 85 points 4 months ago (1 child)

This is how American education and politics look to Europeans.

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  • [–] 64 points 4 months ago (29 children)

    If I give money to these sellers of chicken, they'll give money to breeders of chicken, and there will be more chickens. No! I want less chickens!

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    [–] 60 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    oh thats propaganda. thats factory farm propaganda on my timeline. 💔

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I thought this was slop. I'm almost sad it's not.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You can be one step sadder...

    Disclaimer: Our eco-friendly shirts are legit and we will be planting real trees in the ground, but please be advised that Wood Milk is 100% fake and completely made up. Only dairy milk is real milk. Paid for by America's Milk Companies.

    American milk companies have paid for this. When Americans buy milk, a small fraction of that is going towards this website.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Aubrey Plaza had the brand that she was this independent and couldn't give a fuck progressive chick. And then she did a milk propaganda campaign and her reputation took a hard dive.

    Look, I get everyone needs to get paid. But it's not like milk needed another spokesperson. This was on the same level as Terry Crews doing an Amazon commercial on the heels of them denying unionization at a warehouse.

    I lost a lot of respect for her after this commercial.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    Completely braindead take. Great shitpost.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (20 children)

    I heard once that chicken is considered vegetarian in some countries.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (16 children)

    It's true that chickens don't eat meat.

    Edit: This is not true.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I had a fair sized yard flock for a number of years. I have seen chickens kill and consume snakes, mice, voles, all manner of insect of course, lizards, other birds foolish enough to try to get to the chicken feed, and once one of their own chicks that just wouldn't shut up. They definitely eat meat.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Indeed! I remember a story of a wounded pidgeon falling into a chicken coop... Not much remained of said pidgeon, apparently.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    TIL while checking my own dumb joke. I guess I just thought they ate seeds, corn, etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know if that's true, but I do know that in Japan, after Emperor Tenmu banned the eating of meat, certain animals were considered not to be meat. This did not include chickens, but it did include wild poultry. Also fish, eggs, probably others I'm not aware of/remembering.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I think this is related to why Japanese uses the same counter words for rabbits and birds. You can't just say a number plus object in Japanese alone, because you need a counter word with it. So 2 bottles is "bottles 2 long things" and 4 pieces of paper is "paper 4 flat things". Small animals are usually counted with the word "hiki", so you'd say "salmon 5 hiki" or "dogs 2 hiki", but birds use "wa" instead. I think rabbits are also wa so people could basically say "Uh, no we're not eating meat, we're just having some long eared furry birds."

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    In all fairness, neither did lettuce.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Lettuce doesn't photosynthesize?!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Vast majority of plants are net consumers of oxygen. Almost no edible plant gives us shade. Farming is technically a net contributor to global warming.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    As long as a plant is growing, it is a net producer of oxygen. When plants consume oxygen through respiration, they convert glucose into energy, but in doing so they use exactly as much oxygen as the plant liberated when it created the glucose through photosynthesis.

    Meanwhile photosynthesis provides glucose which is built into cellulose which is the plant itself, and this produces oxygen with no consumption.

    Net result is net oxygen.

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  • Funny thing to say when they have plants on their meal pictures.

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