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Comment Someone has to have the courage (Score 1) 151

What's CONICET contribution to science? How many publications, patents, etc? More importantly, how does the work of CONICET translate to improvement in the industry, more jobs, better lives for Argentinians, etc? I bet very little. The most crucial problem in Argentina now is government spending, with 40% of the population working for the government. Nothing else is more urgent than fixing that. Once the 140% inflation is controlled, the fiscal is in order again, and the government can reinvest in critical sectors.

Comment Re:Money (Score 1) 88

Totally agree with you about Bolsonaro About the corruption story you mention, I assume you are talking about Petrobras and the lava-jato. Well if you don't believe it you must have a very good fantasy to explain how billions were recovered or why most people arrested return millions and millions. Just on Petrobras director returned 300 million to the justice. Perhaps you must stop reading the worker party web site.

Comment Re:Money (Score 1) 88

You don't live in the cold war era. Three days ago Mr. Bolsonaro was visting Russia, that's doesn't seem the thing a USA puppet would do, specially considering the current Russia Ukraine issue. It wasn't Wall Street that brought Lula down, it was Lula government the corruption that brought him down. But don't worry, the corruption always win in latin america, Lula is back.

Comment Re:Change who you vote for (Score 1) 214

It is complicated. Beef production is a close cycle. Cows generate CO2 previously sequestered and accumulated by plants used in their diet. Beef packs a lot of nutrients and energy in a small volume. You get much more energy from 200g of beef than from 200g of broccolis or carrots. Thus when transporting beef to the consumer you use less fuel to transport more energy than when transporting vegs products. Grass-fed cattle is even benefit to the environment because does the natural cycle of carbon captured by grass - ruminant feeding - fertilizing the soil. Besides, grass-fed beef must cycle the use of the fields, allowing the pasture to recover naturally Plant base alternatives for red meat are highly industrialized types of food with the same problems: for instance high levels of sodium.

Comment Need to take more into account (Score 1) 252

I suppose the carbon ingested by animals comes from carbon captured by the grass and grains used to feed them. So it is a close circuit. This is completely different than CO2 that comes from fossil fuels There is also the fact meat packs a lot more calories in a smaller volume, it means a lot less CO2 in transportation for the same amount of calories. Cattle feeds from a lot of things not suitable as human food.

Comment Re:Fingers crossed (Score 1) 206

There's still the matter of all the Brazilian voters that put him there. What's the cure for that level of stupidity? It's not like people didn't know what kind of man he was before the last presidential election.

Brazilians know the reason. Try to do a little research, specially who's got the second place

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