Mary Stetler
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You can actually get lambs quarter seeds on line. I like them when they are about 6 inches tall and here they spread like weeds.
Food Watch, What Are We Really Eating?
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We had lambs quarters all over like weeds in Idaho, but we do not seem to have them here in Alabama. I know they are a type of amaranth, and I grew that from seeds and used the leaves in cooking. I might try that again. They didn’t seem to come back the next year, even though there were lots of scattered seeds.You can actually get lambs quarter seeds on line. I like them when they are about 6 inches tall and here they spread like weeds.
Marie Miller
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They do well in Alabama. Actually too well. What were your growing situations?
When it comes to using AI for plant identification, or anything else for that matter, I think the salient point is that you shouldn't depend on it. I have played around with Bing's CoPilot and some other AI sources quite a bit, and I use it to research topics and websites in my job, and I find that it is mostly accurate, even in things that have surprised me, but I have also found that it lies sometimes, or more graciously, perhaps I could say that it's not always right.
It also depends on how the query is worded. If the query suggests a desire for a particular viewpoint on the subject, AI will try to make that argument for you even if has to stretch the truth.
Then again, human experts also lie sometimes, and they are not always right.
It also depends on how the query is worded. If the query suggests a desire for a particular viewpoint on the subject, AI will try to make that argument for you even if has to stretch the truth.
Then again, human experts also lie sometimes, and they are not always right.
Lambs quarters might be growing all over somewhere here, but there are none in my yard. Lots of plantain, and some other edibles like violets and sorrel, but no lambs quarters.
The amaranth, I had planted in an area where I had other plants and flowers. I gathered some seed, but let most of it fall to see if it would reseed, but it didn’t, at least I didn’t see any more the next year. I still have some packets of amaranth seeds, so I might try growing it again and see if it spreads at all.
I have seen information about this question before, about where does all the meat come from, and is it actually real beef hamburger meat that we are getting in all of those burgers. Are we eating fake meat mixed in, or even worse, are we getting close to the Soylent Green movie ?
Hopefully not ; but it is something that people are wondering and asking about.
This chart information really brings it into focus, to ask what ARE we eating ? And it is only showing the McDonalds, what about all of the other places that serve hamburger or beef in some form ?
Hopefully not ; but it is something that people are wondering and asking about.
This chart information really brings it into focus, to ask what ARE we eating ? And it is only showing the McDonalds, what about all of the other places that serve hamburger or beef in some form ?
Kate Ellery
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What’s lambs quarters weeds ? ….we've got most of the weeds here from the time it was sheep grazing land before it was cut up for housing blocks of land …
They are a type of amaranth, @Kate Ellery . They don’t get as tall as most amaranth, only around 2 feet tall, and they grow wild almost everywhere here in the United States.
Krystal Shay
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I don’t eat at McD’s but there are lots of people that eat McD's hamburgers every day. Sure, it might taste like cardboard but America produces a lot of beef, as well as Brazil and Argentina so I can’t imagine there is a shortage of beef for fast food restaurants that they would substitute the beef with something else. Otherwise, there would be lawsuits. Lawyers would be chomping at the bit to handle a lawsuit against McD; 30 percent lawyer fees! You bet they take on a big case like that. Their hamburger may not be all that tasty, and it probably has some cheap cuts of beef from eyes to tails in it. I can’t imagine if someone who suspects that there is “something funky” added to the burgers that it has not already been investigated.
I worry about how food is handled.
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Beth Gallagher
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I don’t eat at McD’s but there are lots of people that eat McD's hamburgers every day. Sure, it might taste like cardboard but America produces a lot of beef, as well as Brazil and Argentina so I can’t imagine there is a shortage of beef for fast food restaurants that they would substitute the beef with something else. Otherwise, there would be lawsuits. Lawyers would be chomping at the bit to handle a lawsuit against McD; 30 percent lawyer fees! You bet they take on a big case like that. Their hamburger may not be all that tasty, and it probably has some cheap cuts of beef from eyes to tails in it. I can’t imagine if someone who suspects that there is “something funky” added to the burgers that it has not already been investigated.
I worry about how food is handled.
I agree. I remember many years ago there was some rumor about McDonalds using earthworms in their hamburgers (probably started by Burger King). At the time the cost for hamburger was about $1.99/lb and the cost for earthworms was abour $8.99/lb. Just didn't add up somehow.
