12:38:37	 From  Cora Kim : I just got assigned the regular testing in subco
12:40:22	 From  Maggie Howsden : Didn't Colorado have something on their ballot about reintroducing wolves somewhere last fall?
12:40:33	 From  Jackson Zipp : yes
12:40:45	 From  Maia Tucker (she/they) : They were Very Upset about it 
12:41:02	 From  Peter Jonas : GREASY
12:41:12	 From  Sydney Tawfik : That death hurt ^^
12:47:26	 From  Tristan Call : With regards to death I know a large amount, possibly the majority, of farm animals have life spans where they are old at around 10 and die shortly after that. Excluding other threats like coyotes or butchering for food at age 1 anyways. And on a farm there are a lot of animals, meaning a lot animal death. For the overall good of the ecosystem ideally, but not always.
12:54:23	 From  Tristan Call : I think there already is a rail line... At least some of the way
12:57:42	 From  Kevin Moody : i'm gonna pop some tags
12:57:55	 From  Maia Tucker (she/they) : do you have twenty dollars?
12:59:43	 From  Maia Tucker (she/they) : I mean a lot of people say like "what are these chemicals???" and its just the scientific names for like, salt 
13:00:05	 From  Dillon Shipley : i’ll put any chemical in my body if BK tells me its ok
13:00:16	 From  Tristan Call : Probably have to approach the veggie burgers on a case by case nature. Some are definitely better than others, whether it's taste or health
13:00:30	 From  Megan Rice (she/her) : Good point dillon
13:04:06	 From  Maia Tucker (she/they) : i mean if you just have some blood, you can do like a cow blood draw instead of having to kill a whole cow 
13:08:50	 From  Angela George (She/Her) : Is Trader Joe’s trying to replicate that local co-op or farmer’s market feel when really just being a regular chain grocery store or are they actually more sustainable?
13:09:20	 From  Maia Tucker (she/they) : ^^^^
13:09:43	 From  Peter Jonas : huckleberries
13:10:18	 From  Sophia Whitworth : I’m not sure Angela, but I would be surprised if they are actually more sustainable- it would be an interesting thing to research!
13:13:03	 From  Paloma Whitworth (she/her) : One thing that really frustrates me about trader joe’s is all the packaging. Because they don’t sell anything by weight, many of their products are sold in styrafoam/plastic containers. In one of the episodes of their podcasts, they talk about how customers have complained about packaging and they try to reduce it. But last week, I noticed that the organic bell peppers are only sold in plastic packaging. I feel like maybe they want to reduce their packaging, but are also trying to mediate it with competitive pricing.
13:15:43	 From  Makenna Girard (She/Her) : RIP Mr. Greasy
13:15:47	 From  Makenna Girard (She/Her) : Ben was weeping
13:17:33	 From  Dillon Shipley : 500k pounds of food / year
13:17:37	 From  Dillon Shipley : was a figure they gave
13:17:51	 From  Tristan Call : Yep.
13:17:55	 From  Ben Ratcliff : one unconfirmed investigator into the doc found the plot of land costing 10.5 mill
13:17:56	 From  Tristan Call : By the end anyways
13:20:39	 From  Tristan Call : Yep, that's the rise of cash crops
13:21:02	 From  Tristan Call : Not grown for food, just cash
13:23:09	 From  Makenna Girard (She/Her) : I think a lot of us buy cheap food because we are paying for rent, insurance, and healthcare. Under our current economic system its unjust to ask people to spend money on food and sacrifice their ability to sustain a home and health
13:24:36	 From  Daniel Kar : We worked out almost every day
13:24:46	 From  Megan Rice (she/her) : HAHAHA GET HIM DANNY
13:25:32	 From  Daniel Kar : According to one of the italian professors, their fridges are smaller than our mini fridges
13:25:32	 From  Megan Rice (she/her) : Maybe you did :(
13:25:39	 From  Paloma Whitworth (she/her) : If you have a chance, there’s an episode of Hidden Brain called “Hungry Hungry Hippopotamus” It talks how food is treated in different cultures.  It’s my favorite episode of any podcast of all time!
13:26:20	 From  Maia Tucker (she/they) : a lot more of our food is also way more processed than in Europe 
13:28:04	 From  Tristan Call : Yeah the massive size is a marketing trick to make us go 'oh, I'll just get one' even if that one contains an entire days worth of calories/sugar/carbohydrates
13:31:50	 From  Fisher Ng : Human connection makes us rich in ways that money can’t :)
13:33:46	 From  Peter Jonas : Todd saved all of us
13:33:58	 From  Georgia Cosola : todd 💔