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"A note on trans fats and dietary cholesterol: The National Academies recommends that trans fat and dietary cholesterol consumption to be as low as possible without compromising the nutritional adequacy of the diet. The USDA Dietary Patterns are limited in trans fats and low in dietary cholesterol. Cholesterol and a small amount of trans fat occur naturally in some animal source foods. As of June 2018, partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the major source of artificial trans fat in the food supply, are no longer Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). Therefore, PHOs are no longer added to foods."
Source: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2020-1...
"The most recent results (University of Bristol; Defra project AW0234), from a survey of 67 flocks (not including conventional cages) were similar but even worse, particularly because only keel bone fractures were recorded. Thirty six per cent of hens from enriched cages had fractures (of the keel bone) and the average prevalence in other non-cage systems ranged from 45 to 86%. In the worst flocks, 95% of hens had fractured keel bones." (Emphasis mine.)
The report I linked even says that the old results massively under estimate bone fractures because they seldomly used x-rays to find them!
And not only that, your 14% figure are the new fractures, i.e. the ones that did not occur during laying! One newer study from 2006, mentioned in your report just two paragraphs after the one you got your figure from, estimates these old fractures of free range hens at 44%!
> The fractures seem to be mostly unrelated to the number of eggs laid in this study.
Even that is explicitly contradicted by your report, quote:
"Osteoporosis is further exacerbated by the great egg output of modern hybrids. In 1930, a hen laid around 115 eggs in a laying cycle (from about 20 to 72 weeks of age) but nowadays a hen lays around 300 eggs, almost an egg per day for a year. A hen’s need for calcium for eggs exceeds her body reserves by about 30 times."
Please, actually be honest on offering a counterpoint.
The broken bones are not even visible, their behavior change is very subtle. You'd have to x-ray the hens to see the damage.
Here [0] is a report from Switzerland (in German) saying that 97% of egg laying hens in Switzerland have on average 3 broken bones, some even as much as 11.
Ethical eg farming using current hen races is simply impossible.
[0] https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/neue-studie-roentg...
This affects chickens regardless of them being free range, organic or whatever.
Commercial egg farming is anything but ethical.
Why do you think it goes against "conventional longevity advice"?
This is not an evidence-based approach. I swear all these nutrition grifter folks on YouTube and Twitter melted certain people's brain.
They do not.
That is what ultimately drives consumption-based pollution, so they are directly to blame.
I contest that reputation exists in anything but your own mind or bubble.
Doing free work for an employer is always parasitic with regards to its employees.
You have a third option here which you didn't list, which is forking the project into one which is working in favor of the public; removing the CLA and giving each contributor shared ownership of the project. Your contribution should then be made to that project.
I have to say I'm disappointed seeing you defend exploitative labor practices.
I have no idea what you want to express with your second paragraph, though.
There's a somewhat decent argument to be made for non-profit organizations, but there's none for for-profit orgs like Microsoft.
You should never be working for a for-profit organization without compensation.