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  Mushrooms are delicious, but they don't really have a ton of protein. In one of the big caps, there's only about 3g. However, one doesn't have to have huge amounts of protein... even most vegetarians consume too much protein. So if you have some side dishes, it really doesn't matter. By the way, did I mention that mushrooms are delicious? I highly suggest trying oyster mushrooms.On A tasting of four meatless "turkeys" for the holiday table posted 11 hours, 11 minutes ago 11 Responses

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  I don't think Thanksgiving is a celebration of the genocide of Native Americans. At least, not for me... I can't speak for others. But if you wanna know something that really irks me is that we have a national holiday for Christopher Columbus, the man who thought the natives were stupid the moment he met him (you can read some of his writing on the subject), yet he never even realized he wasn't in the Indies, heh...On A tasting of four meatless "turkeys" for the holiday table posted 15 hours, 23 minutes ago 11 Responses

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  Sorry :D http://theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?RecipeID=112On A tasting of four meatless "turkeys" for the holiday table posted 16 hours, 14 minutes ago 11 Responses

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  I don't think Tom is necessarily saying we need to pull some new agency out of our ass, I just think he's saying we need to recognize that the USDA in their very core have a conflict of interest. I don't see how they will have much of an incentive to properly and responsible oversee an industry if they also think they are supposed to be giving it a boost. As far as I'm concerned, we can stop giving my tax money to "help" gigantic corporations that create jobs, but these jobs are very low-paying, dangerous, high-turnover jobs that ruin the small communities they show up in and exude all sorts of bad stuff into the environment. But at the very least, we need to have a separation of business interests and public interests (public interests being primarily safety).On Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more posted 18 hours, 5 minutes ago 15 Responses

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  A couple people act like Tom is making a crazy proposal (omg, who will regulate it if not the USDA!?), when I think the main point is that it's fundamentally counter-intuitive and counter-productive to have an agency whose job is to promote these industries and also regulate them. Our government should be promoting intelligent farming (i.e., not CAFOs, not subsidizing a select few crops heavily, etc.), but more importantly, they shouldn't be so caught up in helping the business aspect of these industries that they become unable to responsibly oversee them because they have a vested interest in NOT analyzing their practices.On Why the USDA has no business overseeing conditions on factory farms, and more posted 18 hours, 26 minutes ago 15 Responses