Kereru

I have a young child that we are raising vegan. It’s been straightforward enough so far, although she is still little so we haven’t had to deal with other people feeding her yet. Diet-wise it’s fine, usual suspects like b12 obv and pregnancy and breastfeeding has higher micronutrient needs, but that’s not specific to veganism.

Main issue is the social aspect, thankfully our families have been supportive but kids tend to bring up a lot of underlying sentiments and emotions, and managing that could be tricky especially once our kid is a bit older.

The other minor thing is allergies. Research seems to point to introducing allergens early in life to reduce allergies forming. Seeing as she will be growing up in a world where exposure to milk, eggs fish etc is pretty common we’d like to reduce the likelihood of her having severe reactions to these, but obviously that means we would have to feed her animal products :/

Soviet Michael Cera looks like he's having a nice time

The actual doc is out later this week I think. This is an interview with one of the creators

Glad to see NZs most important city, Timaru, well represented.

...I should rewatch The Wire

It's definitely not a trend here, but when it does come up it's very technocratic and always in the context of well-paid email workers. It feels more like the tech and finance PMC pushing for job benefits on an individual level, not connected to class consciousness. The argument also makes more sense for those jobs: "we all know we aren't actually doing anything productive anyway, can we have Friday off? We'll just cancel a few timewasting meetings."

"Israel" has done another aid massacre https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/3/3/israels-war-on-gaza-live-every-minute-counts-as-hunger-kills-in-gaza

The ethical response would be to [redacted]

Good year for tunnels, bad year for helicopters

Tbf that’s almost always going to be the case with nutritional epidemiology because it’s too hard to run an RCT for long enough to measure long term outcomes. If they can be paired with rcts looking at biomarkers, causative explanations and well controlled for interfering factors they can offer some good evidence.

Definitely some odd things about it. It also seems to not exactly match other studies that found plant-based diets reduce severity rather than occurrence. Might be asymptomatic/low severity cases that aren't being reported

Edit: actually it does seem to line up with this meta analysis (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.28298) but I can't find it in sci hub to compare details

"Yes we won't be able to assist in any meaningful way, but we'd like to confirm that we are, in fact, the bad guys"