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  • Food should absolutely be a human right, but what you receive should be based on survival needs and sustainability. I don’t mean bread an water but rather a broad selection of staple goods that results in a varied diet with the ability to choose for yourself what you eat. Steak, and most other meat products, shouldn’t be part of the basic selection, they are luxury products without a sustainable way to produce in large enough quantities. The equivalent is that free public transport wouldn’t include flights since that simply isn’t viable at the moment.

    Whether luxury goods that slowly kill the planet should be available at all is a different question entirely that can’t be solved in our current geopolitical system. There are ways to address this but it would require a complete global restructuring that goes way beyond what food as a human right would require.


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    3 months ago

    Yes Cognitive decline is well researched and starts way earlier than your 60s, but its also an umbrella term for a lot of things.

    Reaction and processing speed goes down starting from your mid 20s, short and long term memory gradually declines in your 30s and your vocabulary decreases from the mid 40s. But the ability for complex judgement that’s important here shouldn’t start declining until your 60s. If you are in your mid 60s and are completely helpless when it comes to technologie that’s been around for 10+ years, you either are in the early stages of a cognitive condition like dementia or you are willfully ignorant cause you can’t be bothered to learn.

    There are a few other causes, like excessive lead exposure (which is especially common for Americans) and malnourishment during you development (often the case for developing nations), but at least the former can be classified as a neurological condition.