I believe you’ve provided the most coherent take on this subject. Well done.

Well, yes. Rural kids play with bugs and do all sorts of objectively horrible things to them. Because they are bugs. I am not trying to defend it, but yes, that’s normal.

That is odd as fuk. Really?

Don’t much care about the sensations that crickets, or even lobster may have.
On the other hand, I’ve spent a lot of time around cows. They know what’s going on. I love beef, but I could not kill a cow. Pigs are fukin smart, and I eat a lot of pork.
My perspective would certainly change if I wasn’t able to buy my food in nice clean packages. I might eat less meat if I had to kill it, but I really doubt I’d quit.

I don’t disagree with you, but there’s a body of research about plants’ reactions, and some of them certainly look more like pain than just accommodating to negative stimuli.

This is sad, but its going to happen quite a few more times before they really understand large scale gene editing. And even after they do understand it better, probably some percentage of the time its gonna go wrong.

So what? Am I missing something here? Why should I care?

Hey, poison yourself, that’s fine. It’s not so fine to push it on others.
By debunked, I mean its an extremely unhealthy way to live, and its gonna fuk your guts up. Enjoy your trip to the butt doctor.

‘Atkins’ has been thoroughly debunked. People should know better by now.
I was there for the start of that fad, and unfortunately for me, bought the bullshit.

I would not argue that point, but … its beside the point.

Ya, that’s never been a problem for me. I think the ‘bad thing’ was dental infections and a bunch of antibiotics. That threw my shitter out of kilter and made me understand you have to manage your gut like a garden. When you see that bright red blood in the bowl, you realize change is in order and start listening to doctors instead of diet fads and ‘your own research’.

Shitting was not a problem. Shitting blood was the issue.
Your gut bugs need fiber to eat. Or they will eventually eat you.
You cannot maintain a healthy microbiome without fiber.
The older you get, the less your guts can tolerate the type of self-abuse you are pushing here.
Additionally, fiber consumption has a dramatic impact on cholesterol processing. That’s actually what finally brought me to the table for a balanced meal.

Well, for me it was about 42 years, till I was bleeding out my ass all the time.
You know, some of us are hard to convince.
I’m cured, but I’ll require regular colonoscopies for the rest of my life.

I’ll see you at the butt doctor when it hits you too. Or … you could act sensibly. Now.

I guess you are kidding, but sure. It’s good to get the info out there. All ya gotta do is google it tho …

Would you prefer Stanford, Harvard, Mayo Clinic, or NIH?

Judging from the comments, people are committed to their atkins thing.
I don’t expect this to be well received.

Fiber. You need it. This ‘ketogenic’ thing is suicide.

Ya. I’m cooking some ground pork to throw in the leftover beans from yesterday.
Gonna dump that slop on top of a nuked potato. That will fill the plate.
Tomorrow I’ll do a fresh batch of beans. Or rice. Or both. So much variety!
And fuk, I still eat pretty good. It’s just not very exciting.

Nice drone!