All of JLRiedi's Comments + Replies
Hello Aidan! I'm not sure where you are seeing that? We say, "In one social network analysis, a spouse was 67% less likely to smoke if their spouse had quit smoking, 43% for mutual friends, 34% for coworkers in small firms, and 25% for siblings." Can you help clarify exactly where you are seeing that information? Thanks!
Answering on behalf of Faunalytics: we posted Faunalytics’ Funding Gap of $385,000 to address how we would use donations from Marginal Funding Week. Thank you for organizing this, and best wishes to everyone involved in their fundraising efforts.
Hello! If folks have U.S. or Canadian identification but live in another country that's not a problem, but otherwise we don't have the administrative/payroll systems in place to hire outside those two countries at this time. As we grow we hope to consider employees outside these countries via an employer of record, but unfortunately we're not able to yet.
Hi Jamie! Thank you for bringing this up - we do address this in the accompanying blog post to the Fundamental where we touch on what we covered and what we didn't:
"The third issue is one that we did touch on, but that goes much deeper than we have the space for: the farming of insects for food. It’s a topic that we’ve covered in some depth in the Faunalytics Library, and many people are looking towards “insect protein” as a potential “solution” to the problem of satisfying the protein needs of a growing global population. The global insect protein m...
All contributing sectors should receive media coverage in some way - at the end of the day we need to be reducing emissions from all contributing sectors. I'd say the main issue is that other than animal ag getting little coverage in climate articles, when it is brought up, there's generally a lack of information regarding how animal ag contributes to climate change.
We know that animal ag is not only responsible for about 11%-20% of global emissions, but is also a leading cause of deforestation and land degradation. There's also evidence that the foo...
Food deserts are very much still an issue, and not a myth. The resources linked in the Food Empowerment Project page are helpful, as well as this 2022 study.
The study you linked shows that some people don't live very near to a grocery store, but it doesn't even attempt to establish that this has significant negative effects; the paper I linked (and other similar ones), which do attempt to measure the impact of distance, generally do not support this conclusion.
The 'Food Empowerment Project' seem more like activists than real researchers, but even their webpage doesn't really list any evidence that distance to grocery stores has significant negative effects. Additionally, some of it's claims are clearly mistake...
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