TOT: is this reasonable?

Cats are not collectivists. Have you heard the expression 'like trying to herd cats'? Each cat will want what the other has and, given some, will ignore it.

They have enough of that particular nutrient. My body is like that. One day is 'gimme chips!' the next day its 'Chips? Ugh!'

Well, there's also the labour involved in filling the container, and the food which can't be re-used.

you've already paid for the food - but surely it just goes back in the pot,

We had a ginger cat, when I was a kid, who was quite partial to cooked broad beans !

That must explain why Jo(anna), my neighbour spends so much money at the vet !! (Cocker spaniel cross golden retriever - with the drug-sniffer nose) - Dudley the dog, not her.

Might have made far more economic sense to subsidize the blast furnaces at Port Talbot.

Have to be careful if its a smallish dog. The oddest things are dangerous such as grapes, currants and sultanas...

.. I recently had occasion to visit the emergency vets to get our dog checked after being in a road accident, she was fine, but there was a similar spaniel cross there who had scoffed some dried fruit that had dropped on floor while its owner was baking...

.. the artificial sweetener Xylitol is also highly dangerous as it triggers an insulin surge. Fortunately its not widely used in the UK except in chewing gum, but some peanut butters have it, so don't use it to disguise medicines..

Dave

We need de-carbonised (?) steel for weaponry so we have to either buy it or produce it ourselves. Since we are beginning to realise we can't trust the yanks for instance we need to produce our own at whatever cost.

But it only needs to be "de-carbonised" if you slurp the Milliband koolaid.

Thats called iron.

-- Truth welcomes investigation because truth knows investigation will lead to converts. It is deception that uses all the other techniques.

I was right to include the question mark then.

Google says "the production of actual firearms, artillery, tanks, and warships requires highly advanced, custom-engineered steel alloys", there was a lot of discussion about it during the earlier talks about losing UK steel production.

Although energy production accounts for the larger part of fossil fuel consumption, manufacturing and the chemical industry is a large fraction. We currently make fertiliser from natural gas. Going net zero would probably starve half the world to death.

Smelting iron using e.g. nuclear made hydrogen would probably work, but steel still needs added carbon.

The fact that no one is addressing this at all shows that, like Greta, we have to ask 'if this is so important, why aren't they you something?'.

The answer is of course that its not important, and never was.

That's misses the point that we have nationalised British Steel for strategic reasons.

Dogs can be like this as well. A friend has found that with her dog it will eat the same brand of dog food (varied flavour/content each day) for around two weeks but then completely go off of it. Switch to another brand and the dog will eat heartily again for a week or so before going off if it. Switch back to the other brand and it's OK with that for a couple of weeks. In general the dog now gets a swap of flavours and 2/3 different brands on a daily basis. Sometime the same brand for a bit longer if purchased in bulk at a competitive price.

House special curry = anything unsold from the night before and anything returned to the kitchen :)

You really don't want to know what goes in 'Turkish' kebab meat packs, or how many times they have been re-heated :-(

I thought Ineos had stopped doing that because they couldn't compete with USA natural gas prices ?.

From Google AI -

"Yes, the UK no longer produces its own synthetic nitrogen fertilisers from natural gas, as the last large-scale commercial ammonia plants closed due to unprofitability.The UK is now 100% dependent on imports for nitrogen-based synthetic fertilisers. These imports largely originate from the US, Trinidad and Tobago, and European nations like Lithuania.While the UK does not manufacture the synthetic product, natural gas is still heavily involved. The nitrogen fertilisers UK farmers buy (such as ammonium nitrate and urea) are made overseas using natural gas as the primary chemical feedstock and fuel source in the traditional Haber-Bosch process. This reliance on overseas gas makes the UK deeply vulnerable to global energy market fluctuations and shipping disruptions.Because of this exposure, the government and agricultural industry are actively exploring alternatives to cut reliance on imported synthetic products. There is a major push to increase the use of domestic biofertilisers, which are nutrient-rich byproducts derived from anaerobic digestion and biogas production."

Goatskin and fat, isn't it?