****ing Meat....

[Audie]

I figure i stay away from shellfish and all is good.
Gotta do my part and all.

Coz it takes 330,000,000 cubic miles of water to grow a oyster?

 

[Revoltingest]

If we could get rid of meat eaters we would double our winnings.

A diet of nothing but tofu & kale leaves the
diner too weak to pose a threat to us carnivores.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Coz it takes 330,000,000 cubic miles of water to grow a oyster?

The OP and graph in post #3 are speaking of farmed shellfish. I'm unaware of any 330,000,000 cubic mile oyster farms.

 

[Stonetree]

And since we have water treatment facilities, cases of cholera, dysentery and salmonella are greatly reduced.

In 3rd world countries which still have a life expectancy of 43 years - what we had before water treatment.

It isn't just nice, it's vital.

And that doesn't take into account that we still use more water than is naturally replenished. The results are that ground water levels are reduced which leads to desertification and the need to drill ever deeper.
(A luxury 3rd world countries can't afford. But then, they usually don't have the population density and per capita use we have.)

Just supporting your post: Why aren't we using ocean water?

Cost

• The primary reason we don't see more desalination plants is due to the cost to operate these plants. Salt dissolves easily in water and it requires a lot of energy to break the chemical bonds. Energy consumption hikes up the cost to run a plant and the cost of the technology to desalinate the water also holds a hefty price tag.

 

[Secret Chief]

A diet of nothing but tofu & kale leaves the
diner too weak to pose a threat to us carnivores.

Good job then that nobody has a diet of nothing but tofu and kale.
A diet of nothing but bacon and burgers leaves the diner too full of cancers to pose a threat to us vegans. See?

 

[Revoltingest]

Good job then that nobody has a diet of nothing but tofu and kale.
A diet of nothing but bacon and burgers leaves the diner too full of cancers to pose a threat to us vegans. See?

Until cancer does me in, no effete namby pamby
vegetarian snowflake will win the war on bacon.

 

[Audie]

Just supporting your post: Why aren't we using ocean water?

Cost

• The primary reason we don't see more desalination plants is due to the cost to operate these plants. Salt dissolves easily in water and it requires a lot of energy to break the chemical bonds. Energy consumption hikes up the cost to run a plant and the cost of the technology to desalinate the water also holds a hefty price tag.

What chemical bonds

 

[PureX]

I tend toward pork, poultry, and fish. So not the worst offender, I guess.

 

[Revoltingest]

What chemical bonds

I wondered that too.
Dissolved salts aren't referred to that way.

Water molecules and their interaction with salt | U.S. Geological Survey

www.usgs.gov

 

[Secret Chief]

Until cancer does me in, no effete namby pamby
vegetarian snowflake will win the war on bacon.

It's ok I was only joshing.

 

[Revoltingest]

It's ok I was only joshing.

And I responded in kind.

 

[ChristineM]

Why aren't we using ocean water?

If i could i would use ocean water to cook spaghetti, as it is thought i use salted tap water of about the same salinity as ocean water

 

[Yerda]

A diet of nothing but tofu & kale leaves the
diner too weak to pose a threat to us carnivores.

We're going to free all the animals while you're in meat induced stupor. Then when you can only eat what you can catch we'll all be veggie.

 

[Revoltingest]

We're going to free all the animals while you're in meat induced stupor. Then when you can only eat what you can catch we'll all be veggie.

You can have my meat when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

Note:
Do not read that statement as being erotic.

 

[Secret Chief]

And I responded in kind.

You did, but I missed off an image.

 

[Revoltingest]

You did, but I missed off an image.

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[SalixIncendium]

That's only after they saw this guy in their garden...

 

[Revoltingest]

That's only after they saw this guy in their garden...

Audry?

 

[anna.]

I tend to stay away from beef, pork, moose, rabbit, squirrel, elk, deer, etc. because they cause all manner of havoc with my innards.
I eat a lot of fish, chicken, turkey, etc.

Any chance you're been bitten by a lone star tick?

Alpha-gal syndrome | CDC

What is alpha-gal syndrome, and what do we know about it?

www.cdc.gov

 

[We Never Know]

I looked into this, it's actually the bottle that degrades not the water. After a while the bottle leaches chemical that can taint the water.

Sunlight speeds that up in bottled water.