/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12471116
>that pic
>salad frosting
>mfw humanity has done fucked up

>>8485897
I started calling them that ironically. then I caught myself doing it without even thinking about it.

what has this site done to me?

>OP an heros
>cops and paramedics come to his house
>find evidence he was innocent

>>8370381
maybe, sounds like one of those "he said she said" things.

also make a cheesecake or something else rich and decadent for dessert. it's not like the cholesterol is gonna matter.

How can I get motivated for Thanksgiving, /ck/. I'm going through a bout of depression, and I have family coming tomorrow, and I'm supposed to be cooking the entire Thanksgiving meal, and I've only done half the shopping, and less than half the housework needed, and I can't seem to get up and do it. I've been sleeping all day, and feel like I have brain fog. My family has never understood my depression and anxiety issues (one feeds the other) and they pretend it doesn't exist, so it's not like I can ask for their help. I know this isn't /adv/, it's /ck/, but ya'll are my home board, and I need help getting up and motivated to clean and cook this giant fucking meal. I don't even want to go to the store.....
Tell me something happy that will make me want to get this done.

>>7812473
Not this shit again.......

/ck/, you make me tired.

>>7140085
I failed. I just couldn't handle the thoughts.

>>5580765
No, those are not facts. Facts are true in all situations which is what in turn makes them facts.

>Fact: the cultivation of feed crops and the industry around cattle and animal production is a major cause of energy consumption and environmental degradation
Compared to what? Growing ANY crop in a large amount consumes relative amounts of energy consumption and environmental usage.

>Fact: you can feed much more people on a plant based diet
No. Just no. Demand in the market is geared more towards animal products than, let's say, grain. If meat simply fell out of preference, that would not mean more people get fed simply because the opportunity cost of producing said grain is not nearly as significant as producing meat was.
>BUT WE CAN PRODUCE 7 KILOS OF GRAIN FOR EVERY KILO OF MEAT
It doesn't really matter. It actually has to be worth doing, and if the price of grain isn't significant enough, people will not do it.

>Honestly I just wish we would end the subsidies so meat would be too expensive for most to afford on a daily basis.

We really don't directly subsidize meat in the United States. We subsidize the hell out of feed and corn, but that's not quite for the same reasons. Besides political lobbying, grain subsidizes allow our economy to more dependent on corn as we use it throughout more industries; in more free market economics, industries would pursue alternatives due to possibilities like overfarming, droughts, or bad harvests.

>I am not a vegan but I recognize the importance of veganic diets, in the long run its best we cut down on meat its just smarter.

Eh, I don't feel it matters much in the long run. I would say the average Western citizen consumes too much processed meat, but once more, it's where demand is geared at present.

>I used to live above a 7/11
>Would never go there except for milk or eggs or something simple
>Except when I was drunk, at which point I would eat a large bag of cool ranch Doritos
>mfw Doritos are engineered to be the most addicting snack food ever
>This happened every other weekend at least until I moved

Is this what the future is?

>Be a general physician who designs meal plans and gives nutritional advice to athletes and young adults
>Arguments about GMOs and "clean" eating
>Regardless of my opinion, they'll argue about it

It's a very similar subject to global warming or climate change or whatever it will be called in a decade. There is a lot of money involved, and not a lot of scientific information on either side as the subject is very new.

Here is the long and short of most GMO products; it varies by industry, and what exactly is used, but I digress..

>No one really fucking knows the health implications
This is really the big one. People like to claim it will give you cancer, and make you sterile, or whatever doomsday prophecy they like, but it's not quite true. The research done at this point isn't very applicable to human life spans and diets.

Could eating GMOs give you cancer? Maybe. Then again, people argue that perfectly natural things will give you cancer anyway. To claim a certainty in this heavily implies a lot of ignorance or bias.

>It's kinda bad for the environment
Really, at the end of the day it's bad for the environment in the same way that invasive species and the green revolution was bad for the environment.

Essentially, if they're not self terminating plants or animals and they can reproduce, you've introduced a new subspecies of sorts. Oh, and large scale farming of valuable crops uses a shit ton of herbicide/pesticides that the plants may be more resistant to dependent on the genetic strains.

>The money is much more important that the truth of it
The United States historically has had problems exporting grain to many nations simply on the scale side of things. Local economics could fucking crumble if they accepted imported American crops. No country wants to be dependent on food imports because farmers cannot compete with imported goods.