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. . . No, plants clearly CAN adapt and change things that quickly, as the vast majority of domestication of plants was done before humans had any clue what DNA even was. Selection pressure can work quite quickly in both animals and plants to alter characteristics, either from natural local...

That's disingenuous framing and I mean SEVERELY so. Firstly, the hospital likely doesn't even own that machine, they likely rent out the space for it to a third party company that chooses how to stock it. As such, what is stocked in it is actually outside their control. That's how vending...

We don't have good records of most of those to be able to judge, but both Hinduism and Shintoism have dietary laws, and those are both quite ancient. That said, religious dietary laws pre-Judaism likely were quite similar to Jewish dietary laws as set down in the Pentateuch, where they are more...

Veganism is a form of Atheistic Religious Observance. It's not really about health, it's about setting themselves apart from culture and feeling morally superior to them. Firstly, one thing to note is that pretty much every religion in the world has dietary laws. Even the loosest forms of...

This can usually be simplified by paying attention to what KIND of Bacon you're getting, because, at least when it comes to bacon, the sugar is not added just because, but rather it's part of the curing process they used to make the bacon, as sugar is a desiccant and can help preserve things...

I agree when it comes to "low fat" alternatives to processed foods. However, sometime people just want a sweet treat that tastes good, and so long as those are enjoyed in moderation and occasionally, I think folks should be allowed to. There's very few things better than a few warm chocolate...

So, in fairness to these in those ingredients lists, these are likely there due to flavor profiles rather than just extra sugar. Malt and Honey both have distinct flavors and have been used due to those flavor profiles in recipes for literally millennia. Thus it's likely these aren't in those...

In fairness, preserving pork via sugars is actually a historically longstanding method of preservation when making ham. That's what Honey Cured Ham originated as for instance, preserving and curing pork with honey, which is why some bacon is sweetened, to have a similar flavor of bacon that is...

A short description of the videos would be helpful, especially as this one appears to have gotten age restricted and so no longer previews properly. -.-

This isn't true, allergies can often be to things that are otherwise completely harmless to other people or things, but still induce an auto-immunology response. Most obvious for this conversation: Peanut allergies. For most humans peanuts have no toxic effect and peanut based foods and oil is...

Lard can be hard to find in American grocery stores. If they stock it it will usually be in a section with the other oils, usually in a relatively small container, often along the bottom shelf and hard to find. Same with Tallow. Worst case though you can order Lard and Tallow off of the...

. . . FFS, no, the Mongols were not some weird exception to the norm. It was common until the invention of firearms that nomadic steppe peoples were consistent threats to, raided, and conquered settled peoples. The Mongols were only the MOST successful at doing this, but this group also...

[Citation needed] This stinks of a correlation fallacy, as agricultural living ALSO happens to correlate with the development of writing, record keeping, and leaving behind more permanent archeological artifacts, things hunter/gatherers did much less frequently. So of course there is going to...

Oh, fair enough. Yeah, peanuts are actually a really weird crop all around, they actually grow underground like potatoes, grow a woody hard shell like a nut, and the edible part looks like a brown pea and is similar divided in half like a pea is (hence the name, "pea-nut"), but unlike other...

Peanut Oil isn't a seed oil as people mean "seed oil", as peanuts are not the type of seed people are talking about when talking about seeds, and as the rest of your list clearly shows, you know what people tend to mean by seeds. Strictly speaking, Peanuts are legumes, and more closely related...

Soda is by far the worst offender when it comes to "sugar" content; however, the Big Bad of the Sweeteners industry isn't Sugar manufactures. Sugar made from sugar cane and sugar beets is actually one of the smallest sources of sugar in people's diets, and the sugar industry has never pretended...

The anti-animal fats movement didn't come from the environmentalists as far as I can tell. Rather it was a confluence of events that began in the 1930s and culminated in the 1970s. So, firstly, in the 1930s American farmers were struggling, so the government, in it's infinite wisdom, started...

So, in order of how bad the thing is for you and if you should take trying to minimize/cut it out of your diet entirely, the top of the list that even normie doctors and pretty much everyone agrees on is High Fructose Corn Syrup. Sugars in general are terrible for you except in moderation, but...

Get a funnel, a coffee filter or cheesecloth, and a clean milk or other sealable carton. Once the used peanut oil is cool you can then filter it through the coffee filter/cheesecloth, store, and use it for cooking other things. Oil, unless you burned it badly (got it above its smoke point and...

If you can get pure Olive Oil, yes, it's actually really good though you have to be careful with it as the smoke point is low compared to other oils. If you're doing something that calls for cooking at high heats (>400 degrees F) you generally don't want to use it as those are above it's smoke...