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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it | Neil Barsky | The Guardian

Source: I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it | Neil Barsky | The Guardian

U.S. running out of money to help Ukraine, White House warns – Los Angeles Times

The Biden administration Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying that Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it.

In a letter to House and Senate leaders that was released publicly, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young warned that the U.S. would run out of funding to send weapons and assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year, which would “kneecap” Ukraine on the battlefield.

Source: U.S. running out of money to help Ukraine, White House warns – Los Angeles Times

What Would Happen If Everyone Stopped Eating Meat Tomorrow? | LAist

Brown cow stands in front of black colored cows. Standing on green grass. Humans eat a stunning amount of meat every year — some 800 billion pounds of it, enough flesh to fill roughly 28 million dump trucks. Our carnivorous cravings, particularly in industrialized, beef-guzzling countries like the United States, are one reason the planet is warming as fast as it is. Raising animals consumes a lot of land that could otherwise soak up carbon. Cows, sheep, and goats spew heat-trapping methane. And to grow the corn, soy, and other plants that those animals eat, farmers spray fertilizer that emits nitrous oxide, another potent planet-warming gas.

For all those reasons, and many more, activists and scientists have called for people to eat less meat or abstain altogether. At last year’s United Nations climate conference in Egypt, activists chanted slogans like “Let’s be vegan, let’s be free.” At this year’s conference, which starts November 30, world leaders are expected to talk about ways to shift diets toward plant-based foods as a way to lower animal agriculture’s climate pollution, the source of 15 percent of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Cutting out meat can be an effective tool: The average vegan diet is linked to about one-quarter the greenhouse gas emissions of a meat-intensive one, according to a paper published in Nature in July.

But what would happen if everyone actually stopped eating meat tomorrow?

Source: What Would Happen If Everyone Stopped Eating Meat Tomorrow? | LAist