Comments benjamin2012 has made

  • biodiesel

    a better choice than petro, but no where close to sustainable. We need a much more sustainable solution than this. I wonder how much petro based fertilizer is used to grow every gallon of bio? My friends think their so cool for using bio but really is it that cool? On Biodiesel is wack posted 2 years, 11 months ago 7 Responses

  • on killing things

    Sometimes a human must do, what nature used to do, before we disturbed her balance. The mice and chipmunks on my property have taken over. This is due to there being no wolves, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, owls, and predators that there once were. Moving them does not help so I believe(its human fault after all) its better to kill them. All the moral dogma does not cut it with me either, If humans were so moral they would do the natural world a favor and depopulate (kill) themselves. On They don't ignore it posted 2 years, 11 months ago 90 Responses

  • we never even been to the moon

    more funding for mass deception. make me wonder what they are really doing with that money?On NASA invests ... on the moon posted 2 years, 11 months ago 2 Responses

  • the secrect life of plants, and tibet

    The book secret life of plants, on soviet discoveries in the 70's.

    "Before my eyes a barley sprout literally cried out when its roots were plunged into hot water. True, the plant's "voice" was registered only by a special and extremely sensitive electronic instrument which revealed a "bottomless vale of tears" on a broad paper band. As though it had gone crazy, the recording pen wriggled out on the white paper track the death agony of the barley sprout, although, to look at the little plant itself, one would never have guessed what it was going through. While its leaves, green as ever stood upright, the plants "organism" was already dying. Some kind of "brain" cells within it were telling us what was happening.

    Tibet-and my home in Colorado-

     Tibet and Tibetan Buddhists have historically eaten meat. There's very little arable land in Tibet. The rugged Himalayas do not support vegetables like the plains of India. Our high-altitude land here is similar to Tibet.

    The logic that justified the Buddha's original teachings cuts both ways. Say we served all vegetarian food here. Our demand for plant food would be so intense that we would have to destroy animal habitat to grow it. From that point of view, vegetarianism or veganism kills animals, too. You could debate about this forever, of course, but if we take a truly macrobiotic approach to living here, meat-eating makes sense for this climate, just as it did in Tibet.
    On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 2 years, 12 months ago 54 Responses

  • the secret life of plants

    I disagree with you on the whole mammal-plant thing, to me life of a plant is as worthy as my own.
    I'd venture to say that the buffalo grazing on the grass isnt killing much.
    regard not as evil, just unworthy fools, now thats what I call an open mind..
    namaste On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 2 years, 12 months ago 54 Responses

  • humane? willa

    "As far as I know there is no humane way to kill a fish."

    How does one humanly kill a carrot? Should I peel its skin before I decapitate it?

    What makes a animals life more relevant that that of the plants you eat?On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 2 years, 12 months ago 54 Responses

  • "real world"

     "so threatened by our choices that they have to suggest we are not in touch with the real world."

    I not threatened by your choices, I was a holy vegan for 13 years of my life. I still have a strict diet with no dairy or unwild meats. Move out her to colorado were it is 9 degrees outside and try and tell me that a vegan diet is healthy.Ship you veggie in from newzealand and mexico and tell me how sustainable your are. Try and tell me I cant be happy and healthy now that Ive decided to nourish my body the way most of all my anscestors have for thousands of years, (Im actually happier and much healthy now). I no longer believe a plant based diet is the grail, do what thou will, I have no problem with it just dont try and make your ideal mine. On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 3 years ago 54 Responses

  • on

    on aquaculture
    organic fish/veggie farms. symbiotic relationships of the future.

    on eating, and "moral-ism"
    unless your a fruitarian your killing something to eat.
    On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 3 years ago 54 Responses

  • ideals and realism

    the "reality" is that people are always going eat fish. Tell a hawaiian not to eat poke and youll figure that out real quick. so knowing that people are going to eat fish we need to come up with "real" solutions not some "ideal" fantasies.  On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 3 years ago 54 Responses

  • maybe someday we could all be

    pious vegans, but in the real world people are always going to eat fish. Sustainable fishing, organic Aquaponics, enforcing quotas, taxing the industry, creating more preserves are just a few ideas.
     On Umbra on sustainable sushi posted 3 years ago 54 Responses