Thoughts on SPAM "meat"

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400 posts maybe a record

 

[Black Hand]

...bacon is king.

Finally, a sensible person that understands cured meats....

 

[Straekat]

While the introduction of CO2 into water containing a flavored sugar syrup yields a delightful refreshing beverage - Coca Cola...
The issue isn't that CO2 is present, rather the amount and where it is found that may or may not be problematic.

Combining CO2 and water produces an acid that can dissolve the enamel in your teeth if you drink it over a lifetime. Depending on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere you can have acid rain and all that implies.

 

[Black Hand]

Depending on the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere you can have acid rain and all that implies.

And it can contribute to creating stalactites and stalagmites too...

 

[Carbon 6]

Did you guys now that carbon dioxide is used in meat packing ? It's used in packaging as a preservative and as dry ice in grinding operations like hotdogs to keep the friction of the blades from cooking the meat.
Carbon monoxide is used to keep the red color in packaged meat.

 

[Black Hand]

Carbon dioxide is also used by plants to make carbohydrates (that might end up as food for us or other organisms) with oxygen as a by-product (which is essential for most forms of life)...
As with medications - dosage determines therapeutic vs toxic.

 

[tenngun]

Career military and civil service type officials who have to develop long term planning, and that includes contingency ops for all sorts of events, are well aware that even a few degrees of higher temperatures know the results can include droughts, crop failures, water shortages that lead to refugees fleeing one country for another place to live, wars over water, and other resources needed desperately. Or, to use war as a last resort to stave off regime change. Sound familiar? It should. The US military takes the view that ignoring climate and environmental could be disastrous if it does an "ostrich" routine.

Military planners and those who have civil service type positions requiring long term planning are not politicians who may not be in office when bad political decisions result in the proverbial chickens coming home to roost. I've heard many politicians who dispute science and the idea of climate change. I've heard very few military planners who take the same point of view. The military far too often gets the job of cleaning up messes and paying the bill, the politicians make and walk away from with no consequences, other than the risk of losing their next election, when things go south.

Historicly humans have done better in warmer weather, life infact has done better warmer and higher levels of co2. The most abundant worldwide ecosystem existed with co2 levels ten times higher then today’s.
However no spam was canned last warm period we had. Correlation in time is not the same as correlated in cause. But spam lovers should be concerned.

 

[Carbon 6]

Carbon dioxide is also used by plants to make carbohydrates (that might end up as food for us or other organisms) with oxygen as a by-product (which is essential for most forms of life)...
As with medications - dosage determines therapeutic vs toxic.

It's also used as an extraction solvent.

Isn't science fun.

 

[Zonie]

Well.
Now that everybody has finished talking about SPAM and they are trying to save the world, I've decided to close this topic.

I mean, there's "sidetracked" like a fright train might be when the Limited Express is coming down the line and then there is "sidetracked" where the freight train is shuttled into the next county like this topic seems to be.