I saw some unexpected stuff in this map of world-wide lentil consumption, somehow Toronto, Canada dominates any given location Asia Minor and Greece in Lentil consumption.
I’m not opposed to people eating Lentils, but I got to ask the Canucks… why? Why do you have to be the top consumers on the planet? Why is eating Lentils the rage? You can’t blame it on immigrants, because their motherland don’t each as much as you do.
So like what, is eating Lentils in the Canadian National Anthem? Is that the only food the British let you eat? How could this of occurred? It makes no sense for Toronto to dominate World Lentil consumption. Save some of that for the hungry in the third world, you greedy bastards.
I am from Toronto. I have had lentils once or twice in my life. I’ll guess at a few reasons…
Protein for vegetarians, and a health-conscious population that, yes, is unusually diverse. Actually eating lentils is better for the third world, since raising animals is generally a less efficient use of land.
Dumbass. If you are eating food at all, you are eating food before starving people get it. If people eat land grown food, and land grown food is a more efficient use of land, then that means that there is more food for those that don’t have it.
A lot of time it’s environmental… arable land, rainfall in a given year, etc. It fluxuates. Sometimes it’s a bad year. Sometimes a hurricane comes. Sometimes someone pollutes your soil, or cuts it down, etc. Take an analogy: it’d be utterly easy for me to find you, come to your place, and visit on you the equivalent suffering on a personal level.
Should you have to earn what you eat? Yea, of course you should. Should you still get to eat if shit happens and you can’t? I say yes.
Oh, no doubt, you look like a beast of a human being—not a pot head at all. But honestly, read Hobbes on that point. Why do you think even strong people give up their power to a Sovereign? —Because they have to sleep, right? It’s one of the first chapters in Leviathan, I think. But read my post, bruah…
Do you think I’m threatening to feed you lentils? It’s called an argument by analogy. First year students learn it in a reasoning/argumentation class. Do you think you should get to eat, if I come to your place and make shit happen to you? If you say yes, then you’ve agreed with me that your previous post was wrong. That’s the analogy. It doesn’t matter whether the agency is a person, a lack of rain, or a tornado. If you can’t work for some reason, the world is still a better place if you get to eat something. You denied that earlier.
Von I don’t read the bible, except the book of job which this dude convinced me to read when I was about 13. None of the other parts. I mean who would want to after reading job?
I also sleep less than 4 or 5 hours a day, like, ever. I wake up when the temperature rises and my air conditioner clicks on. No amount of triazodone, or remeron or over the counter sleep meds will make me unconscious. I just get more and more internally focused and externally sloppy. They gave me phenobarbitol when I was in high school and I would just take it and sit up and read. I’m a freak of nature man. I once injured a bitch who crawled up to get a close look of me while I was asleep in a casino. I have a feeling if I hadn’t awoken immediately and instinctually grabbed her head in the dark and slung her across this hotel room that she probably would have touched my penis. I’m too nervy though man. If you manage to sneak up on me it’d be a feat.
Maybe it’s my avoidance of lentils. I dunno what effects they have on the human body. Do they aid in sleep?
Who is talking about the Bible? I was talking about Leviathan----as in Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Not Leviticus, or whatever you’re on about. What does how much you sleep have to do with whether country x should have food to eat?
Smoke a spleezy and this thread will make sense to you.
Hey I’m just responding to what you’re presenting. If you took it off topic that’s your fault. Old british philosophers might as well be the same guys who wrote the bible. But that’s another story.
I like black beans, or as my hombres to the south call them frijoles negros. I’ll take like a hunk of ground beef and some black beans and corn and season it to the point that the salt level dehydrates your entire body almost immediately. Sometimes I throw it into a taco shell, sometimes I just eat it with a spoon. I kind of simmer it all down into a sludge really. It has lots of protein.
Do you think I’d benefit by adding lentils? So they have a pungent flavor or can I use them as an inert ingredient just to fortify my nutrition so that I, like most Americans can continue striving to shit out more and more unused protein into the toilet as the rest of the world becomes increasingly emaciated?
Tennessee is the fourth fattest state in the Union, I believe. Topped only by Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. When I was in Tennessee, there was what looked like a push going on to beat Mississippi, which I think is the third fattest state. Shit food everywhere. The problem, in Tennessee, is that a good portion of it is in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, and the citizenry are constantly walking either up or down, when they have to walk. Man I remember when they were doing the PETA commercials and they were saying all kinds of things about how vegetarians have more and better sex, because they’re healthier and this-and-that. I don’t know if I buy that, frankly. I know you don’t want fat. Fat makes it harder, but still.
Anyways, eating unused protein is bad for you. It’s hard on the kidneys. If your kidneys are over worked, you’re likely to get gynecomastia----that’s man titties, just so you know. Same goes for your liver. Man when I was like 16 I got my personal trainer certification. But I couldn’t work as a personal trainer because I wasn’t 18. I think that’s how I know. Or I might have just read an article about it somewhere. A lot of things you ought to do are good for others, sure, but they’re also always good for you, personally. Eating way too much crap protein is bad, for you. Unless you like your man-titties.
Bruah, most old british philosophers are atheists. That debatably includes Hobbes, bruah. Ayer, Russell, Williams. The list goes on.
