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Edilma Howard
Have you ever tried Netflix streaming? My family has been using it for a couple of years, and we've really enjoyed it, and surprisingly have found it has saved us from a bunch of DVD clutter as an unexpected side benefit.
I didn't realize this until recently, but all of the Just for Kids programs have been selected with help from Common Sense Media, and provide ratings, reviews and information so we parents can make choices which are appropriate for our kids.
If you're not familiar with the service when you log in (we stream Netflix through our Wii) you get a choice between regular Netflix (what hubby and I view on date nights, for example) or Netflix Just For Kids (what all three of our kids are required to choose when they ask to "watch Netflix").
All of my kids really enjoy watching programs on Netflix, and I actually prefer they use it to watch shows rather than Comcast's On Demand, which we also have (it automatically comes with our cable subscription), since I often find the commercials for the On Demand section inappropriate for young children.
Plus, recently they've actually added several new shows and series that my five year old loves, including Tinker Bell & The Great Fairy Resuce, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Road Rally, and Jake & The Neverland Pirates (that's what she was watching in this picture to the left). She loves her Disney programs!
Often my youngest will watch a show with her siblings, but we also enjoy watching shows together as a family. My husband loves comic books, and has passed this love on to our kids, so we often watch superhero shows together on Netflix, including ones from channels we don't get on cable so we get excited as they get added and sometimes have a weekend night marathon when sports are not going strong.
However, I appreciate the fact that you can watch it from multiple places in your home as well. Often my husband streams a movie on his computer to watch while working on paperwork, or while exercising.
When my oldest was little we bought lots of videos (VHS, can you believe it?) and DVDs for her to watch, and trust me, we watched them A LOT! You know how really small kids like to watch the same thing over and over and over again.
The thing is, when a child outgrows those children's DVDs and videos they just become clutter. Yes, we try to show them to the next child, but if you've got multiple children you know each child's taste in shows is different and often what was a hit with one is a dud with the next.
The result -- lots of these videos and DVDs haven't been used in quite a while, and I really should just get rid of a lot of them! (In fact, that's exactly what I'm going to do in when we organized CDs and DVDs as part of the 52 Week Organized Home Challenge.)
Instead, we just look for something new for her to watch and she gets into it, watches lots of different episodes of a program over the course of a couple of weeks, finally gets bored with it, and we move onto something new. Nothing to accumulate in my home! Bonus!
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My friend Mary, who drove us to R-Place Restaurant, took her burger apart, eating meat, then toppings, then buns. The last bit of grease-soaked bread was too much for her, though. I ate mine the traditional way, and only made it through about a quarter.
Certainly, vegans can make a fair and compelling series about veganism. Starting in high school, I was trained as a journalist to believe in a neutral, objective approach to reporting, but have come to understand that is bullshit. It pretends journalists or documentarians alike do not have perspectives and are not making subjective decisions in their work, suggesting they are coming from literally nowhere, and is an idea that plagues journalism.
You Are What You Eat often uses appalling imagery, like chickens and pigs smashed together in cages, turtles caught in nets, large pools of blood, feces spraying in the air, salmon in farms with sores on their bodies.
I was annoyed by the lack of focus on the study. The subjects on the vegan diet losing muscle during the study was glossed over. How many calories were they consuming? What were the macros? How much were they exercising?
As a vegan of 5 years, speaking for myself I would have liked to see more scientific information myself, but as a tv viewer, I can attest that documentaries seldom offer Harvard references throughout to legitimise their claims, nor do other subjects often face the same scrutiny as veganism which triggers many omnivores.
There was elements in the documentary that did seem oversimplified and biased towards a plant based diet, but I would still argue that the environmental reasons outlined throughout are credible in their own right, and the fact that farmed animals outweigh natural wildlife 19x is astonishingly clear.
Supplements are often required to support a healthy vegan diet, and I take those as needed, but one fact ignored by carnivores or omnivores is often that the animals they consume are supplemented themselves. B12 levels in bovine are high because they are fed powder, soya production is predominantly done to feed livestock, and as is mentioned amongst other facts in the documentary, processed red meat consumption is listed as a type 1 carcinogen.
Yes, some meats are more processed than others, but the more highly processed meat is more affordable, consumed more often and increases risk of heart disease and cholesterol problems substantially compared with a plant based diet.
What I think is often overlooked is that whether an agenda is sewn throughout a documentary, study or whichever, you have to use your common sense to parse truth and not simply conflate intention with manipulation.
Far more money is spent on marketing to maintain the status quo of high animal consumption, ie more money spent on industrialised animal farming propaganda, than vegan propaganda, but when environmental scientists, nutritionists and moral philosophy points towards a clear cut answer, arguing for small details in an overwhelmingly more potent and convincing bigger picture ends up becoming casuistry and confirmation bias.
The fact is, being vegan is a lot harder than being an omnivore as the documentary proves, and I can speak for myself to attest to it too. Doing anything that requires discipline also requires vigilance and arguments and data convincing enough to maintain it.
@Gabz,
My problem is that when someone lies they cant be trusted. They never showed the rest of the results from the studies. What was the testosterone levels for the cheese twins. What was the sexual arousal of the men? they made a big deal about the women. Notice how the meat eating twin gained 7 lb of muscle mass the vegan gained 2.3. They spent five minutes making a big deal about the 2.3 pounds. Then when they showed the graphic they left the 7 lb gain out. Total bullshit. Sorry dude you are either honest and interested in the truth or your dishonest trying to scam. It is obvious this is a scam or they would have included all the facts.
@Pat G, The assumption in this film is that omnivore must mean industrial meat production. If they want to go after that approach, more power to them. But it is simply an outright lie to imply that is how we have to go about providing meat for eating.
If you would have to choose between a plant based diet with highly processed foods or a meat based diet where everything is made from scratch (so where every ingredient is natural, high quality and treated with the respect it deserves), which one would be the healthiest?
Most who eat excess meat, also eat fries cooked in vegetable oil. American diets have very unbalanced omega 3 (fish) to omega 6 (seed oil). The 3rd ingredient (not including water) in Impossible burger is Sunflower oil.
Hi Kim. I appreciate the comment, and the note about the advertising. Just as an FYI, the weird way that Internet advertising works means that I, as a publisher, have absolutely no idea what companies are advertising to you, and you are seeing entirely different ads than other people.
@Isabella, I agree with your points on CAFO and the industrial farming practices. However, in the time it takes to view this series one could easily and accurately demonstrate the case for sustainable regenerative farming that would sup!ant the misguided government industry cabal and save the earth all while empowering and enriching a significant portion of the people to produce the healthiest food.
was excited to watch this. with all the high tech body measurements etc i figured this would be a good way to see exactly what the benefits to a vegan lifestyle would be and how drastic. after the second episode i realized i was not going to get this type of education bit instead another one on how evil it is to eat any kind of animal period. What a joke the title of this documentary is. instead im headed to McDonalds for a quarter pounder with cheese because i may as well enjoy the taste of what i eat if no one can prove eating vegan is beneficial. if it was, they would have spent 4 episodes showing us how huge the difference was between the twins,
@Jimbo, It has been so frustrating to figure out what would be the best process of getting that younger overall age (I am 57).
I do plan on getting that Dex Scan soon to get a diagnostic of where I am at now.
But who can we trust?
My red flag was when a brand name showed up on food.
Sorry. All over the place, but as someone who wants to learn, the airways seem to be filled with scams now.
I will now get off my own lawn now. (grin)
I also noticed radical statements being portrayed as truth
Cashew cheese maker Miyoko Shinner stated it took 800-1000 gallons of water to make 1 lb of cheese and only 0.25-1 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of cashew cheese.
Knowing cashews are notoriously bad for the water consumtion needed to produce the nut i had to take a look
Now Im no researcher but with just a quick google (may be my folly) it showed to produce 1 lb of cashews takes 6450L=1703 gallons of water
Im not sure of the weight of cashews in 1lb of her cashew cheese but can assume or even hope its a fair percentage
So the shw is either not comparing apples with apples or straight up lying
And lets not start on the test result cherry picking