The vegan lie

Everybody knows that being vegan is not something new but in recent years has become an increasing trend among young people and like every topic that becomes a fashion tends to make a shift into radicalism and fanaticism and i think that now everyone knows, at least, one person that is vegan and has a lot of "informed" arguments about why he/she took that decision, how his/her life has changed, why we need to do the same and also why we need to feel ashamed about the way we are know.

After those encounters you just feel confused because suddenly you don't know what happened and why that person was so aggressive / emotional and ofended by something that you don't have fault. But well we all know those embarrassing situations and that's not the point of this article, my point is to give you an insight of the main reasons that the Vegans use to justify their actions but at the end if you do some research and put some brains into that you realize that everything is just a big lie. 

Being vegan, as a minority, might be good and in some cases "healthy" but if you were responsible for feeding everyone then the things change because to apply something to everyone is a huge challenge and actually behaves in a different way than expected because the variables are even more complex to control than in a small minority that voluntarily stop eating meat.

As engineer it's easy to see the flaws of the Vegan philosophy because every solution we think has to be applicable to every human and living being. So here it is my analysis

1. The vegan diet is a decision.

Each person needs to to and just to apply that philosophy to everyone for the belief that will benefit the earth, animals or us will turn this philosophy into an imposition because you can't force or convince all humans to eat something that you think is right without scientific proof and even that if you prove it if someone doesn't want to eat like you should be enough to respect him and let him be, so veganism is not for everyone.

2. The vegan diet is enough for our development.

The reduction of the diversity of our diet is something we don't know how will impact our health or future generations because humans are omnivorous and that characteristic allows us to adapt to changes and allows us to have a different development than herbivores or carnivores. Besides, the fact of including meat into our diet was fundamental for the development of our brains and the increase of our size through generations. Just look at some studies about the size of all human civilizations through the centuries and size and meat consumption is directly related. Just Europeans increase their size in less than 200 years just by making meat available for everyone.
So, it's not so clear how a vegan diet will affect future generations and the facts let us see that the changes will not be positive for all.

3. A vegan society will use the land in a more efficient way and will end hunger in the world.

That's also something that is not proven and actually, just like reducing the diversity of food will be harmful the same applies to crops because you reduce the rotation of land use which directly impacts production and makes you waste land. So, another reason that it's not true. you can see more about that in this article Being vegan isn’t as good for humanity as you think

4. Being vegan save animals from suffering are we are good with them.

There is no animal that his only existence is 100% good and also I don't see a Lion thinking in how much harm a zebra feels when they are killing her while she is still alive in front of all her family and even kids, right? that sense of suffering and good or bad is an invention of humans and it changes based on our values or point of view, at the end is just in our heads but it's not real. 

All animals and species have positive and negative effects in the environment and humans are not the exception because we do a lot of harm but also other species benefit from us so that idea is just laughable. Besides, all the animals that are directly related to human existence are not able to survive without us so if we just stop being like we are will, in fact, kill and extinct more animals that just keep doing what we do so at the end is not "protecting" animals is just protecting the animals that vegans think are worth it based on their limited understanding of how things work.

5. Being vegan is being a better and different human being.

Well that's the has a partial truth vegan might be right, in some cases, but vegans're not "different" they are just like everyone else but they thinks that their existence helps to humanity but, normally, they didn't studied something to help humanity actually they're just a self-centered persons that thinks that the world have to listen to them because somehow they are right and we don't.

In conclusion, this article is not to make you think that we should exterminate vegans but is to give you another approach of how the things work and to point into the idea that diversity is, so far, the best option that we have to enjoy a healthy, balanced and enjoyable existences as humans and society so at the end the decision is yours.

Have a nice day

Luis O

The day we lost the future

Today is 21st of October of 2015 were Mcfly came from the past and realized that the future was messed up by the bad guy.

In our reality, we realized that we live in that fucked up world were the bad guy has all the money, the world is full of pollution and people is selfish as hell.

In that sense and using my imagination that means that the future of Terminator that we will live is the one were the machines win against humankind

Or in a even bigger distance were the dark side dominates the Galaxy.

Our future is the future where Marty Mcfly loses, John Connor is dead and Luke skywalker is killed by his father...

Well I think at the end the one that needs to solve this issue is you because all the heroes are dead and the future only relies on you, so which is Your next move?

Share this though if you like it 

Emoticón wink

El índice tortilla

En economía existen muchos índices para intentar establecer un análisis cuantitativo de el desempeño económico a lo largo del tiempo y comparar el poder adquisitivo de la gente dentro de los diferentes países.

Uno de los indices más populares a nivel mundial es el Indice Big Mac que básicamente mide el precio de una Hamburguesa de la famosa cadena de comida rápida en cada país en el que se encuentra y permitiría hacer una comparación de las economías de cada país y el poder adquisitivo de la gente.

Sin embargo, al momento de mostrarlo a la gente de México pues no dice mucho ya que las hamburguesas no son un producto básico, en México, y pierde su efectividad.

Ahora, en mi aventura por EUA me di a la tarea de buscar comprar en un supermercado un kilo de tortillas de este lado de la frontera y hacer una comparación simple pero más significativa para los Mexicanos que vivimos dentro o fuera del país. Además considero que este indice es más relevante ya que +/-30 millones de mexicanos vivimos en EUA y cerca de +/-113 millones en México.

Un kilo de tortilla, en México, ronda entre los +/-$12.00 pesos el kilo lo cual no dice mucho pero si utilizamos el salario mínimo del país, $70.10 pesos, nos alcanza para 5.8 kilos de tortilla por día con el salario mínimo en México. Ahora, en Estados Unidos, el kilo de tortilla es de +/- 1.5 dolares el kilo y si lo cruzamos con el salario mínimo, $60.00 dolares, nos alcanza para comprar 40 kilos por día en la unión americana.

Costo de la tortilla comparativo
País	Costo	Salario mínimo diario	Kilos por salario mínimo
Estados Unidos	$1.5 USD	$60 USD	40 kilos
México	$12 MXN	$70.1 MXN	5.8 kilos

Si comparamos la cantidad de kilos que podríamos comprar en los dos países nos da que se gana 6.9 veces más en EUA que en México por lo que el dinero alcanza para más cosas para un Mexicano.

Después de este ejercicio matemático simple me di a la tarea de investigar el PIB per capita, la producción anual bruta entre el número de habitantes, de los países para compararlos:

PIB per capita 2013 (miles de dólares)
Estados Unidos	$53.00
México	$10.3

* datos del banco mundial

Lo cual nos deja ver que en Estados Unidos el valor de nuestro dinero, en moneda local, es 5.1 veces mayor que en México.

Si tenemos las dos diferencias entre mi indice tortilla y la comparación del banco mundial existe cierta consistencia considerando que mi indice es una muestra tomada de manera aleatoria pero deja dar una percepción más tangible y cualitativa de porqué los mexicanos preferimos trabajar en el extranjero.

En conclusión, le economía de México está creciendo pero aún falta mucho por hacer para considerarnos un país prospero además mi intención no es incentivar una migración hacia los estados unidos pero si tener un punto de comparación más tangible sobre el desempeño de la economía mexicana y básicamente divertirme un rato con números, conceptos y activar un poco la reflexión sobre lo que acontece en nuestro bello país lleno de contrastes.


Fuentes:
Índice Big Mac:  http://www.eleconomista.es/blogs/punto-de-inflexion/?p=108
Salario Mínimo: http://salariominimo.com.mx/salario-minimo-2015/
Precio de la tortilla: http://eleconomista.com.mx/industrias/2014/04/16/sin-razon-aumento-precio-tortilla-se

About Nazis and Vegans

Hello, I was on internet looking at news and then I saw this video which catched my attention and I decided to watch carefully. Why catched my attention? Because I am interested in the topic of what I eat and how I can improve the way I eat to improve my health and reduce the possibilities of having an illness that is related to my lifestyle.

Healthy life

I have also friends that are vegans or vegetarians which really believe they are doing the right thing, is something I respect, but when I listen to them, observe how they live and I try to apply their logic to all the humans in the world there is something that is not so solid with that idea. Then I saw this video... 

Click here if you can't see the video

While I was watching the video I realized that this guy, Gary Yourofsky, has really good points to stop eating animal flesh and I've been thinking about this possibility for myself but he was still doing something that my vegan friends can't answer and I think is crucial for the success of their theory.

Auschwitz

Nevertheless, this guy was a little bit more aggressive in his arguments with resources like: "the Holocaust of Animals is bigger than the Jewish Holocaust", which is tough but completely understandable when you want to put the problem into something more tangible context, and also the idea that "the Nazis learned how to kill humans just by applying the techniques that we use to kill animals", which can be true, but it made me realize that he is assuming that a human life is equal to a animal life because he's not distinguishing in types of living things, right?

So Let's forget, for a moment, this comparisons and try to get the best of this. We can learn a lot from him about the way we eat, is good he wants to makes us better persons and I also agree in that a lot of things that we eat we don't need them but the question for me that makes me not be sure about the theory of "Veganism" as way of life is this

leaf screaming

What if animals are not the only living beings that can feel when they are dying? 

What if plants also feel when they die?

Just because we don't hear them that doesn't mean that they are not screaming and we all know plants are also living beings.






You can read this articles about this idea:

• Plant intelligence 
• Plants 'can think and remember'
• The intelligent plant

Under the logic: 

Human = Animal 

because both are living beings, then:

Plants = Animals = Humans = Bacterias

Conclusion:

In this hypothetical thought ,then we should also protect the right of plants and stop eating at all to not produce some kind of pain... 

Makes sense?

NO!

In fact, we are all living beings and we must respect all kinds of living forms, including disgusting humans, there is no way of one species to exist without producing pain into another one, it's just they way it is and it is going to be with or without us.

Animals Cover

And even though that Gary Yourofsky says that Humans are the worst thing that this world can experience and he puts layers of "Good" Humans and "Bad" Humans, which is the same that the nazis did with the Jewish people, then we should change the focus of this idea, get the good concepts and apply them into a more constructive way.

Instead of divide humans just because what we eat. We should be discussing 

How we consume things? 

and

How we can improve our food production techniques?

while we are in this world.

How we can educate people to be aware of what they are doing? 

and give them tools to decide by  themselves and as a society the best way of existence.

Educated consumer

What do you think?

Oskar Gutzmann

La pobreza en México, un desperdicio social

Buenos días,

La pobreza en México

Más de una vez nos hemos enfrentado a la incomoda situación de ver un niño pobre pidiendo dinero para comer afuera de un restaurante, oficina o tienda de autoservicio y seguramente vendrá a su cabeza la idea de "no es mi culpa", "es culpa del gobierno", "son sus padres que no planearon", etc.

Después a lo largo del día nos entra la culpa y queremos solucionarlo de alguna manera lo cual nos lleva a sacar una moneda, si somos muy ingenuos, o si queremos hacerlo de una manera más "institucional" compramos las famosas tarjetas de "un kilo de ayuda" para calmar nuestra culpa interna.

Sin embargo, después de esto me he preguntado ¿Qué tanto sirve hacer esto? ¿Cual es el impacto que tiene en la vida de estas personas? Al final del día, serán adultos y con altas probabilidades sus hijos serán igual o más pobres que ellos.

Los niños son el futuro de país

Después de pensarlo me dedique a investigar un poco en internet, leer algunos artículos y cifras al respecto y me di cuenta de lo siguiente:

Nosotros como sociedad realmente somos responsables directos de las condiciones de pobreza de estas personas y me daré la tarea de sostener esta idea con los siguientes argumentos:

"Sin desperdicio no habría pobreza alimentaria"- AMBA

1.  En México se desperdician cerca de 30,000 toneladas de alimentos, en buen estado, cada día en donde "la mayoría de ese desperdicio ocurre en centrales de abasto, tiendas de autoservicio, restaurantes, hoteles, mercados, así como en miles de hogares donde no se planifican de manera correcta compras ni consumos", dice la AMBA - clic aquí para consultar fuente.

Distribución de pobreza por estado

2. En México hay cerca de 50.6 millones de pobres, 45% de la población, de los cuales 38 millones se encuentran entre los 17  y 0 años de edad. En datos globales cerca de 10 millones de niños, 25% de los niños del país, se encuentran en condiciones de pobreza alimentaria. - clic aquí para consultar fuente

3. El abandono escolar, en México, a edades tempranas está directamente relacionado con las condiciones de pobreza en la que viven los niños y es un factor importante para el bajo rendimiento y su abandono por necesidad de trabajar - clic aquí para consultar la fuente

Ahora con estas tres cifras viene a la mente lo siguiente. ¿Realmente dejar de desperdiciar alimentos es suficiente para todos esos niños?

Piramide nutricional de niños y adolescentes, fuente (SENC)

Si nos basamos en esta simple pirámide de nutrición indica que un niño / adolescente requiere cerca de 12 raciones diarias. Una ración equivale a entre 150g y 200g lo que sería 1,8 kgs de alimento por niño. Considerando esto, significa que con la cantidad de alimento que se desperdicia podríamos alimentar a 16.7 millones de niños diariamente, en México sin invertir  un solo peso extra en incrementar la producción.

Comedor comunitario en ocutlan

Ahora, esta cantidad es más que suficiente para no sólo alimentar a todos los niños en condiciones de pobreza pero para alimentar al 44% de los jóvenes en condiciones de pobreza en el país.

Ahora, esto no es todo. Supongamos que esas 30,000 toneladas de alimento no son consumidas

¿Qué pasaría?

Básicamente implicaría, para ti, un ahorro en tu bolsillo al consumir menos alimentos. Ahora, el ahorro sería mínimo pero sería suficiente para simplemente dejar de ver a ese niño en las calles pidiendo dinero por comida y no habría necesidad de darle limosna o comprar las dudosas tarjetas de "1 kg de ayuda" o los famosos "redondeos" de las grandes cadenas de tiendas de autoservicio que utilizan ese dinero para deducir impuestos y el impacto real en la pobreza es mínimo.

Ahora, ¿Me crees que con un simple cambio en tu estilo de consumo es suficiente para solucionar el problema de alimentación de los niños en  y de cerca del 44% de los jóvenes del país? 

Aunado a esto el gobierno puede concentrarse en el otro 56% restante y el impacto en el mediano y largo plazo coloca al país en un circulo virtuoso de reducción a la pobreza, inseguridad, desigualdad, lucha contra el narcotráfico y rezago educativo del país.

Niña indígena estudiando

Un cambio pequeño para ti implica un gran cambio para el futuro del país, piénsalo.

Muchas gracias

Oskar Gutzmann 

Érase una vez en el mejor país del mundo

Mexican soul by, el curiot

1. El problema

La raza cósmica, coahuila

Todo mexicano, que conozco, sueña con un país que no existe y me incluyo. Realmente a lo largo de nuestra historia hemos sido victimas de atropellos y sumisión que nos han dejado en situaciones realmente graves y hemos perdido muchas cosas en el proceso (territorio, gente, cultura, lengua, identidad, religión, dinero, etc). Sin embargo, todo mexicano se niega a creer que el país es un fracaso y queremos una nación rica, prospera y en desarrollo para todos. 

2. La hipótesis

Esto nos lleva a pensar lo siguiente ¿Algún día podremos ser el mejor país del mundo?

Me gustaría desviar un poco el pensamiento y hacerle la pregunta a Estados Unidos

¿Es Estados Unidos el mejor país del mundo?

La respuesta es, como viste en el vídeo, No

3. La visión

Me gusta la parte donde afirma lo siguiente:

"Alcanzamos las estrellas, actuamos como hombres, aspirábamos a la inteligencia, no nos identificábamos a nosotros mismos por quienes votamos en las elecciones pasadas, no nos asustábamos tan fácilmente. Eramos capaces de todo esto porque estábamos informados, por grandes hombres, hombres que eran reverenciados..."

Si utilizáramos las mismas ideas para apuntarlas hacia México ¿Qué pasaría?

¿Podemos ser más de lo que somos?

Creo que si, pero no creo que sea algo que se logre de la noche a la mañana.

"El primer paso para resolver un problema es reconociendo que hay uno..."

Con base en esto, me gustaría preguntar y que se pregunte cada uno

¿Cuando vamos a empezar a reconocer el problema?

¿Cuando vamos a actuar como hombres?

¿Cuando vamos a estar informados para ser capaces de ser todas esas cosas a las que aspiramos ser?

La epopeya del pueblo mexicano, Diego Rivera

5. La realidad

¿Cuando?

México nunca va a ser un gran país hasta que aprendamos a hacer las cosas bien y parar de pretender que comos algo más. 

¿Cuando vamos a dejar de estar asustados de pensar lo que realmente queremos en lugar de seguir a alguien que promete resolver nuestros problemas? 

Hasta que ese momento no llegue estamos condenados a ser una nación de tontos que creen en soluciones mágicas.

6. Fin al modelo vertical y de inferioridad

La visión de los vencidos

Seguramente después de leer esto vendrá el cuestionamiento de ¿Cómo?

El tema es sumamente amplio y debe ser dividido en todos los sectores sociales, políticos y económicos que buscaré responder puntualmente en cada publicación 

Pero la idea básica radica en el fin del modelo vertical de una autoridad y la pasividad del dominado, nosotros. Porque esto presupone una condición de superior e inferior.

La propuesta es establecer un modelo de iguales donde más allá de un monólogo se genera un dialogo pero para poder establecer un dialogo se tiene que contar con una conversación coherente que coloca a los actores en igualdad de condiciones. Desgraciadamente, en México estamos muy lejos de poder establecer un dialogo debido al bajo nivel de educación que se tiene en el país pero se tiene que empezar por algo.

La mejor manera de vencer este modelo es por medio de la la autodeterminación a apropiarse de la verdadera herramienta de poder (el conocimiento), volverse activo y adoptar el pensamiento crítico en su totalidad.

7. El pensamiento crítico como solución definitiva

Mural Diego Rivera, El hombre como eje rector del mundo

El pensamiento crítico es el único que nos permite tomar la realidad entre nosotros, identificar los problemas y dirigir una solución puntual.

Es importante leer varias fuentes de información, preguntar todo lo que nos rodea y utilizar las bibliotecas o Internet para educar la mente y estar a la altura del dialogo que el país necesita.

Creo firmemente en la medida que vayamos logrando esto las condiciones de vida de las personas iran mejorando de manera creciente y exponencial.

El curiot

Hay muchos temas que mejorar que requieren mentes poderosas trabajando en ellos. La educación, política, economía, sociedad, valores, el país, desarrollo, tecnología, desigualdad social, equidad, etc.

Por último, me gustaría dejar en claro que nadie nos va a sacar de los problemas que tenemos más que nosotros mismos y únicamente si somos más inteligentes que el problema podremos avanzar y volvernos ese gran país que tanto anhelamos.

Muchas gracias y buenas noches

@luigitel180

How to make mexican food, the tortilla

    

Authentic Mexican Tacos

 In Mexico, corn consumption in form of tortillas has been part of our culture since ancestral times and it's the main component of Mexicans diet since centuries. A lot of people, chefs and restaurants in the world  are now trying to learn how to prepare Mexican food but, for being honest, they have nice approaches but they fail in the way of preparing it because they don't understand. How the tortilla is used?, How they can make it? or Why is so important?. It's a simple component but it's crucial to know how to manage it if you want to succeed making a Mexican Night with authentic food. 

First, we have to start with tortillas and here you'll learn something great - all the process to prepare your own corn dough from scratch. Also, I guarantee you that if you use your own dough the taste is going to be better and they are going to be more softer and flexible.

This recipe is traditional and historic because explains the process of "nixtamalización", which is a word in Náhuatl, the ancient Aztecs and other indigens language, nextli = ashes and tamali = dough so the meaning would be dough of ashes. 

This is a chemical process invented thousands of years ago which converts the corn into a healthy and complete food. The process consists in putting the corn kernels into water with lime, this process softens the corn, makes it easy to peel and gives a lot of properties to the corn.

This dough can be used to prepare tortillas, tostadas, totopos (nachos) and a lot of recipes that have corn as basic ingredient.

Corn made tortillas

About this recipe

Aztecs sharing meal

• It's easy to make but demands a lot of work, like almost all the mexican food
• For this recipee you'll need a corn mill
• You'll need lime, if it's possible purchase it in it's inactive chemical form
• The aproximate time is 13 hours because you'll need to leave all night the corn seeds inside the water
• This recipe is for 1/2 kgs of corn dough

Ingredients

Dried corn seeds

• 1/2 kgs of dried corn seeds

• 1 little spoon (1/2 oz) of lime in inactive chemical form.

Things that you'll need

Manual seeds mill

• 1 machine or mill to grind corn or seeds (for more info click here)
• 1 casserole with lid (for more info click here)
• 1 drainer (for more info click here)
• 1 strainer (for more info click here)
• 1 glass (250 ml)
• 1 spoon (2 oz)

Preparation Process

Clean the corn

Cleaned corn seeds

1. Clean the corn seeds to remove all the things that makes it ugly like little stones, insects, leafs or trash that you can find
2. Put the corn seeds in the drainer and clean them with fresh water
3. Put the drainer inside the casserole and cover them with water

The Cooking process

corn seeds cooking process

1. Fill 1/2 of the glass with water and put 1 little spoon (1 oz) of lime (calcium hydroxide) and if bubles are coming out wait until the bubbles stops. Important: This process is done to verify that the lime is inactive. If you see steam of bubbles it means that it is active, wait until the chemical reaction to finish transform the lime to inactive state.
2. Put the water with the lime, using the strainer, that you prepared and mix the ingredients
3. Boil the water at high heat
4. When the water is boiling reduce the intensity of the fire and leave the corn seeds cooking for 30 minutes until they get softer and move occasionally.
5. Turn of the fire, close the casserole and leave it 12 hours.

The next day...

Maiz Nixtamalizado

1. Verify that the corn seeds are softer and that you can peel them with just your fingers;if not leave the seeds more time. Do not leave the corn in the water for a longer time because they will become useles for the dough. This state of the corn is known as "comonixtamal" that would be "almost like the nixtamal"
2. Filter and clean the corn seeds with the strainer and fresh water. The liquid where the corn was cooked is known as "nejayote"
3. Peel the skin of all the corn seeds previously washed
4. Put the seeds in the mill
5. grind the corn seeds to get the dough

Tip. Is important to preserve the corn dough in a closed and hermetic recipient and leave it in a fresh and closed place.

Making the tortillas

Once you have the dough you can start using it to prepare tortillas totopos or tostadas here is a video of how to make "flour" tortillas which you can jump the process of preparing the "flour" because your tortillas are made of corn! they are better but the cooking process is the same. I'll make a video for that later but for now this one works well

I hope you can enjoy a good tortilla and eat just like our ancestors did thousands years ago, have a nice day and please leave comments or questions if you have some

Tortilla ancient preparation process

@luigitel180