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The Great Nutrient Collapse

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46 pointsjdkee12 comments

It’s not the atmosphere.

Glyphosate exerts its effects by preventing plants from synthesizing certain amino acids, which happen to be crucial for human cognition, attention and motivation.

I guess this could be why everyone (and animals) are getting fatter.

Less nutritious plants with more sugars, you have to eat more to get the same nutrients.

That and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, Westernized diet already high in sugars and preprocessed foods, and, most recently, plastics (re: the top article for the other day [0]) Seems reasonable to assume it applies to domestic animals as it does to people.

Of these, I’d bet that nutrient collapse, so far, plays a significantly smaller role.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bpa-plastic-containers-bad-h...

Strange how /r/collapse seems to be bleeding out everywhere these days.

Weren’t they mocked as doom-and-gloomers just a few years ago? They sound pretty Cassandrian these days…

I am noticing the same thing too, but only on the Internet. I don't really hear so much about these "doomer" topics when I speak with people in the physical world. I struggle with how to feel about this kind of prophetic, serious news. I personally don't like to spread it because I don't want to give off bad vibes to others.

I also struggle with the sort of existential stuff this brings to bear. (I basically think we're f'd). Talking about horrible things is considered bad 'table manners'.That's what I got from watching 'Don't Look Up'.

I mean, what is one supposed to do or say? Especially to people with young children?

>Biology grant makers said his proposals were too math-heavy; math grant makers said his proposals contained too much biology.

The money is controlled by idiots.

Also, the specific CO2 focus of this is a bit negligent. There is no other purpose of the argument or research if that's the only thing they focus on. It is just a further extension of all the other carbon tax credit scheming.

There is a real problem with nutrition and part of it is explained by this, another part explained by GMO crops designed to grow big and bright. Total lack of diversity in the genetic material of these crops doesn't help either.

Those things must be addressed to get the nutrient levels up.

Perhaps in the future we won't be paying for food by weight but by nutrient content.... Oh, what, wait, there's an entire industry of grocery stores dedicated to providing food that is made naturally and non modified?

I guess all those hippies overpaying for their produce had a clue after all

It's interesting how the nutrition "scientists" are essentially blindsided by this. It makes you wonder.

When we do not learn, we are bound to make the same mistakes over and over.

look at (white rice) the history of Beriberi - Thiamine (B1) deficiency : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency

Well that's not good... It's also insane that biology studies are rejected for having too much math.

Well, that was the period 2002 to 2014. Let's hope things are better now in terms of math acceptance.

Isn't looking that way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32873005

There is a strangely academic effort to defeat academic rigor. Recall that in the US, people need degrees because we need to sell degrees

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