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Sientists come up with yet another diet to save the world.

I'm beginning to think 1984 was a prophecy rather than fiction.
So it is back to the pre-computer days of spy craft or some modern very slick, computerised equivalent. !! 3 steak burgers enters the data stream as 3 corn patties.
 
think they are NOT spying on us...

alexa, hey google, cortana..all ring a bell...add in the IoT..and we are better covered then winston smith ever was..

(tinfoil hats free in basement area of forum.
i put mine a few years back, never regretted it.)
Still wearing my tin hat, as is my cat lol

I cannot eat nuts and seeds either, for digestive trouble reasons.
 
Lets remember that in large parts of the world, women have no control of either their sexual activity or contraception, for various reasons.
 

We already eat like that because my daugther is a vegetarian , but we eat lots of eggs , did they mention eggs at all ?
But it is a lot of carbs for a type 2
 
I understand that there is a strong correlation between child birth and social affluence.

In my day (here we go again) many mothers didn't work, things were tight and (paradoxically) more kids.

All changed in the 60s when wives started working and families could afford such luxuries as holidays and the latest appliances.

Loads of kids? You've gotta be kidding.
 
Yes, I remember thinking it was harsh at the time. Their population would be even bigger if they hadn't had a one child policy. I don't know what the answer is. Blade runner scenario?

Rollerball (1975) on a MASSIVE Scale..???

if you've seen the ending, does feel rather like LC-HF, rather then Johnathan, Johnathan..
 
The change started with the move to equality and effective contraception. Also a woman used to need the permission of her husband to use contraception, or even obtain it. The pill was not widely available even to married women until the mid 60's
 
I'm beginning to think 1984 was a prophecy rather than fiction.
It was a kid's book, compared to real life. Alexa, Google et al are the ones we can still choose not to buy. All the camera's in the street, the mics in supermarkets, your steps and route being tracked via your mobile. It's not a warning story, it's reality. Just by shopping in your local, HQ of your local knows what you buy, how often etc. So...
 

Never mind the #eatthemeat I've seen this morning #ImNotABird is WAY better.
 

i also believe there is a correlation supporting the idea ( of more kids in third world because of poverty etc,)
between, new immigrants and high child numbers first generation, then number normalise to local societies once social benefits ( better education, work prospects,) are absorbed by incoming migrants families.

But do agree with previous post re china's one child policy, it's all very much chaos theory, the simplest most thoughtful process, can and does have unexpected repercussions decades later.
 
The change started with the move to equality and effective contraception. Also a woman used to need the permission of her husband to use contraception, or even obtain it. The pill was not widely available even to married women until the mid 60's
But... similar population trends are happening in Catholic countries where there is no pill (ish).

Equality and progressive thinking surely come with education and affluence.

Just my tuppence worth.
 
If I ate like they recommended I would be on the lav all day and my blood sugars through the roof.
 
Going back to the last war and rationing, , I believe many people kept rabbits for (presumably unrationed !) meat. Certainly as a very young child I vividly remember going to a school friend's house and being shown their "dinner" rabbits who lived in a couple of hutches in their little yard - they apparently fed the inhabitants on tea leaves which presumably didn't affect their flavour!

So maybe we'd all simply just have to (re)learn how to be a little more self sufficient again - keeping both rabbits and chickens n small spaces where feasible would be another possible source of our meat, and going back to regularly eating more parts of our animals and birds, e.g. offal, would mean less wastage.

Robbity
 
Lets remember that in large parts of the world, women have no control of either their sexual activity or contraception, for various reasons.
Yes and one of the reasons is the need for large families hence the need for better health care and family planning together with education allowing women to take back control of how many children they want to have and their bodies as a right rather than a privilege granted by men.
 
Rationing worked in WW2 and afterwards for several years. I envisage a similar plan.
Yes you are right I was a child during WW2 and fresh meat was really only once week in a small family with only a couple of rations books I was an only child so my mother only had two ration books and that meant really small portions of everything We did eat a lot of powdered egg and corned beef and vegetables were the biggest part of the main meal but we were all healthy
 
Sugar and tobacco were also rationed, severely, during the war. You can't compare apples and oranges.
 
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