ArtBear

ArtBear, 3 months ago

@Geri
More stupid than usual? What for this time?

ArtBear, 3 months ago

Westernised diets are heavily implicated in land use, water use, petrochems use, energy use, processing packaging refrigeration, overall resources use, eutrophication, pollution, loss of biodiversity, destruction of natural habitats, extinctions, pathogens, soil erosion & depletion, antibiotic resistance, pandemics, food chain collapse.

Yet the industrialised agriculture & food systems central to so many crises only feed 30% of the world population.

30% !

It's only 30% of humanity who need to go back to more traditional local plant focused dietary patterns.
#climateCrisis #climateChange #environment #naturalworld

ArtBear, 3 months ago

We need to work back towards eating a bit more like our grandparents & great grandparents. With the environmental footprint more like theirs.

Mostly plants, locally grown where possible. Healthy ingredients, less processed, less packaging.
#climateCrisis #climateChange #environment #naturalworld

ArtBear, 3 months ago

3,000 dairy cows produce about the same amount of sewage as a human city of
500,000 people.

There are
1,850,000 dairy cows in the UK. That's the sewage output of
308million people.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

If you want to factor the impacts to sustainable food systems of milk purchase you might find this graphic useful.

If you chose to use eg oats plus water while cooking (or make your own milk) as a substitute to where you might have used container milk in the past you have further substantially reduced the packaging, storage transport etc footprint below the graphic.

It's worth noting often emissions analyses almost never include all the refrigeration. A lot of plant milks are both tasty while being shelf stable.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

This is possibly the craziest thing people don't know about healthy plantbased diets. It's revolutionary, easily reproducible in clinical trials, and yet almost nobody knows about it.

Take any 100 omnivores.
Draw their blood and measure how well it fights various cancer cells.

Put them 2 weeks on a #plantbased diet (whole foods plant based type diet #wfpb ). Draw their blood and measure again their cancer cell killing ability.

Same people, but now their blood typically fights cancer around 10 times more effectively on average.

Then let those people return to their everyday diet and their blood drops back to regular 10 times less effective at fighting cancer.

So that cancer you don't know about, that could be a massive problem for you in 3.5 years? Maybe it never would be, maybe it would take another 35years, on a plantbased diet.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

No medical team has ever reversed heart disease. Slowed it down with drugs sure, some temporary plumbing work arounds like bypasses yes sure, but no reversals.

Apart, of course, from all the medical teams who succeed by prescribing whole food plant based eating and routinely put CVD & atherosclerosis in to reverse in thousands of patients yearly, and they have the CT scans, angiograms etc to show it.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

@Wen One easy place to start these days is nutritionfacts.org/

ArtBear, 3 months ago

Late 90s, early 00s, we had incontravertible proof. We can actually reverse #heartDisease, #CVD. Not attempt bypass, or slow progression with drugs, but actually restore artery function, reverse the disease.

25years on, very few of us are exposed to this information to make fully informed choices.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

Things huge food & media corporations will commonly say.

If you're worried about carcinogens from eating our expensive & highly profitable animal products, why not eat lots of our expensive and highly profitable berry products for anti-oxidants.

Things huge food & media corporations will NOT commonly say.

Eating affordable & not highly profitable beans & especially lentils gives you far more anti-oxidents than berries. Use them to replace eating animal products & it's a double win.

#plantpowered #plantBased #vegan #plantBasedDiet
@wfpb @vegan @plantbased

ArtBear, 3 months ago

@wfpb @vegan @plantbased
There are now 20 times more cattle being raised today than the entire earth's wild biosphere of every type of mammal. From mice to elephants.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

@chessert ok, sort of like this.

Boil kettle, cover noodles (4mins these chow mein), sieve starchy noodle water into large wok. Rinse noodles under cold water set aside to drain.
Cut onions peppers into heating wok. Add fine cut sweet potato for thick sauce or chunky cut for intact pieces, or mix.

Add spices, chilli flakes, cumin, coriander, nutmeg, garlic, ginger, cardamom, tumeric, black pepper, pinch cinnamon & ground cloves.

Split most way down & add lemongrass stalk if u have it, remove at end, if not... lemon or lime wedges at serve.

Add good measure of dry lentils. Let them hoover up the mixed starchy noodle water and spices. Add a tin of chickpeas in water not drained.

As it starts to dry add a can of coconut milk. Simmer. Use lid as needed to prevent going dry, and/or hot water from kettle if needed.

Add fresh or frozen veg. Baby corn, spinach, kale, peas, sugar snap peas all favourites.

I added an extra can of beans (black eyed iirc?), drained.

I like to serve this recipe with a splash of tamari at plating up, it needs less than adding during cooking and lentils already absorbed tons flavour.
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ArtBear, 3 months ago

Support minority concerns that don't affect you.
The minority concerns that do affect you will never get enough support to improve, without people who aren't affected personally still supporting yours.

ArtBear, 3 months ago

There are a lot of different interesting front end projects. These let us access our home servers via an app or an alternate webpage front end.

#Icecubes #Mona #Tusky #Elk are a few examples of #Mastodon front end projects. Many of these have some unique features that vanilla webpage Mastodon doesn't yet.

We can always access our servers by just typing their address in to an internet browser to get the regular webpage frontend too.

Everything is all connected, these are just a few examples of additional ways of navigating & experiencing. So we can use several routes, depending on need, mood or device. Regardless of which frontend we use, our account(s) remain the same so it's safe to experiment and try things out.
#Help #HelpThread #Welcome #New #Newbies #NewHere #FediTips

ArtBear, 3 months ago

@thelazywriter It is a really easy 1pot! No need to pre-soak lentils (unlike many beans) to get the cooking times as quick as the Qinoa.

Also, when you do it all plant based there's no need to worry about the careful cooking times needed by raw animal products to make them safely edible, so it makes it super quick.

Dress it different ways different days. If your pressure cooker is big enough to batch to add again the Qinoa & Lentils (like 2 cups each) don't exactly double the fluids (stock water etc), remove a quarter cup fluids for each extra cup so 5 cups fluids overall for 4 cups lentils+Qinoa (not 5.5cups).
@vegan @cooking @vegancooking @wfpb

ArtBear, 3 months ago

It's really good to have leftovers from dropping a big batch cook with the above, it'll last all week in the fridge.

For increasing you need less fluids (water stock whatever) for additional cups.
1st cup lentils = 1.5 cup fluids
1st cup Quinoa = 1.25 cup fluids
Additional cup lentils = 1.25 cup fluids
Additional cup Quinoa = 1.0 cup fluids

Stuffed in pita halves, maybe add something quick for variety, salsa, aioli, hummus or whatever.
5mins to crisp the stack in the #airFryer.
#cooking #cook #food #vegan #bearFodder #plantBased #wfpb
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ArtBear, 3 months ago

Keeping that recipe for healthy habits self motivation.

#vegan #veganRecipes #plantBased #bearFodder #wfpb
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RE: catodon.social/notes/9pubjl5chs9mp3j6

ArtBear, 3 months ago

Batch cooking enough to have extra meals to heat up is a great time (& healthy motivation) saver. Easy ways to vary things a bit is really helpful to prevent food boredom.

Chopped red onions, red peppers and tomatoes. Give them 15mins in airfryer. Heat up leftovers from psot above, add new stuff on top with some spring onion.

#vegan #veganRecipes #plantBased #bearFodder #wfpb
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ArtBear, 3 months ago

8minute meal?

I had less than 10 minutes before a neighbour was coming over to do weights together. I want some food ready for after when I'd be really hungry.

I threw 2 cups of oat groats (pretty much intact whole oats, can be used a lot like rice) and 2 cups of dried beans (black turtle in this case) into a jug and covered with water to quick soak for a couple of minutes and also swirl rinse them. They both have similar pressure cook times of 22 and 25 minutes.

Grabbed a load of frozen veg from the freezer and spices.

Sieved the grains and beans into the instant pot pressure cooker.
Added generous shakes of chipotle spices, smoked paprika, cumin, black cumin, turmeric, black pepper, ginger and garlic.
8cups water
lots of frozen veg, sweetcorn, green beans, spinach, baby corn, carrots, garden peas, okra.
Gave everything a really good stir and set for
25minutes on high pressure.

Hour & a half later after working out it's all done & hot, tasty and filling! Served with a splash of tamari, dried chives & nutritional yeast.

#vegan #veganRecipes #plantBased #bearFodder #wfpb
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ArtBear, 3 months ago

I particularly liked how the oat groats and black turtle beans make this really filling, so quick to make but also really budget friendly. Dry beans are much cheaper than canned and actually easier to use than tinned this way.
#vegan #veganRecipes #plantBased #bearFodder #wfpb

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