Just like every other cycle in the human history - abuse until a breaking point is reached, regulations come in, find some other niche ripe for "disruption", repeat the cycle.

Unrelated to the main topic - writing about the surveillance economy in a Medium post, which itself is a textbook example of the surveillance economy devaluates the core message a little bit for me.

Just because there are a couple of cows that might look like they are living the dream cow life (for 4 years out of 20, because they don't produce enough milk to be economically viable and kept alive after that) and still the calves have to murdered early on to get all that milk (it is originally made for calve consumption, not people).

IGF1 and cancer:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25743390

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27737962

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12588089

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113287

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19142965

the industry and how cruel it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI

hormones in dairy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524299/

casomorphine https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095528631...

igf1 and cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/15562834/

and saturated fat https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/20071648/

the Environmental impact https://academic.oup.com/jas/article/87/6/2160/4731307

For the sake of argument lets imagine there is such thing as "humanely" slaughtered cow. For example this one here, enjoying the sun: https://i.redd.it/9v0shahwsh921.jpg

First of all, cows live around 20-25 years and are slaughtered between 18 months and 3-4 years when it comes to dairy cows (which live a live full of misery and are disposed of, once they stopped producing enough milk to be economically viable). Best case scenario, you steak was a child/teenager in cow years.

Second, even the the most "humanely" slaughtered cow has to bleed to death for you steak - we don't want our precious meat to be soaking in blood don't we.

Third, your steak almost certainly didn't have a good live. If you want to see what humanity looks like at its worst, look no further then any industry involving humans and animals that can be economically exploited. Dairy, meat, eggs, fur, wool - it is all horrors beyond your wildest dreams.

Forth, last time I checked - if you eat a lot of meat, cholesterol still blocks your arteries. Heme iron still causes a lot of oxidative stress, aka you age faster. And animals are filled to the brim with antibiotics and hormones and all that good stuff accumulates in the meat, so you get a good juicy concentrated dose.

Fifth, that steak also hurts humans. Nobody in their right mind wants to work in a slaughterhouse, only the most desperate an financially vulnerable choose this field of work and are scared for life afterwords.

All this misery for 15 minute of sensory pleasure. In a time where we have the impossible burger, beyond meat and a plethora of other options, if we want meat without all the suffering and misery.

Also moral stand is - an injustice is happening and you refuse to support it- in this case innocent animals are killed, the environment is trashed for future generations. etc. Ideological stand - I personally belief in A and B. An Ideological stand or belief is by definition subjective. A moral stand - there is a victim involved.

A personal preference. The quality of life is not high, considering the bureaucratic hurdles you have to overcome on a daily basis - dealing with any Amt/Behörde(agency), Schools, Kindergarten, etc. And on top of that - you get penalized for working hard. There is this Goldschnitt situation(golden edge, breaking point), where the taxes get way too high and makes no sense to work above that level.

> They are going to have to be extraordinarily shitty to be worse than what I have already in the UK.

I spent a couple of years in the UK and the services in Germany are way worse. Banks are better in the UK, transportation is better in the UK, at least in major cities(options where you don't have to rely on your car), doing business is easier and cheaper in the UK. Maybe if we compare the NHS vs the german health system, Germany has a slight advantage, at least when it comes to waiting times.

> the insane apartment situation in any major city

Here again - bureaucracy and the car lobby, which gets in the way of any sort of public transport development/investment. So there is space, but people have to bundle around the well connected spots. For example: East Berlin is vast and empty, no transport connections developed for 30 years - only tram and the occasional buses.

> Shitty weather > To me, constant heat and sunshine is shitty weather. I prefer a temperate/boreal climate. I find it far more pleasant.

It is 50/50 - I would not want to be in Spain in June, July, August and I don't want to be in Germany in January, February, March

Iceman Otzi had an artherosclerosis, not the best example of good health https://www.livescience.com/62689-otzi-iceman-mummy-heart-di...

[7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716748/ is only 24 week period, following obese patients, which already have extremely high levels of LDL by default. First of all - 24 weeks is not that long of a period, second - if you just put obese people on any kind of diet that restricts calories or reduces the amount of processed foods they eat - it is only natural that they LDL will be lowered as a result

You can also take a look at this compilation of health studies: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cOFTFhMg1UakqvP5MGe6...

The same for the other paper done with the male population - mailed questionnaire.

The problem with both - these are population studies, you don't have a control group for correlation and people can report whatever they want.

And here is Dr Meir Stampfer leaning towards a more plant based diet https://youtu.be/LUYwMsFuQ1o

This information can be also found on his own page here: http://www.chori.org/Principal_Investigators/Krauss_Ronald/k... in the Other Activities (since 1990) section