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Read this article. It's quite fascinating: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150430170750.htm

It talks about the beneficial qualities of viruses. It may change your worldview.

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https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320690.php

The above article debunks the popular myth that you have to sneeze, cough, touch, or even talk to transmit the flu.

I tend to think the ears are a majorly unrealized path to airborn transmission:

You might not suspect that as much because of how ears don't typically inhale and eject mass amounts of air at once (although they can breathe a little), and how viruses aren't supposed to translocate on their lonesome. Closing yours ears isn't as easy as closing your mouth, however, and you have control of the airflow in your nose, while ears are left to their own devices. It makes sense that pathogens would target ears as a primary source of infection, especially as people talk right into them a lot. A person speaking behind you could also target your ears easily.

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In my view, traditional salad, made from current grocery store ingredients, should be something like this:

* Lettuce-based (not spinach or fruit-based)
* Contain 0 to 1 sweet fruits, and if they are included, they should be dried, and not be so abundant as to make the salad particularly sweet

It should optionally contain any to a number of the following:
* Radishes (they're definitely under-used)
* Black olives
* Green onions
* Onions (red ones are nice)
* Carrots (sparingly)
* Cabbage (sparingly)
* Tomatoes
* Peppers
* Celery
* Cucumbers (sparingly)
* Nuts and/or seeds (don't overpower the salad with nuts, though)
* Cheese (ideally grated; cheddar and mozarella are great)
* Shredded parmesian cheese is fine
* Artificial bacon bits (not the real thing)
* Immitation crab
* Hidden Valley ranch dressing (make sure to pre-test all your ranch in advance; it's not all the same)
* Caesar dressing (but only if it tastes like the kind at Wendy's from 1998 or so, and I don't know a brand that does; I'm not sure if Wendy's Caesar dressing still tastes the same)
* Croutons (ideally small, savory ones)
* Dried cranberries (not all the time)
* Dried raisins (not all the time)
* White mushrooms
* Freshly cooked, good-tasting chicken (not cold, nor processed); as with the other ingredients this is entirely optional
* Very thin sliced ham or turkey ham might be okay
* Strawberries or brown sugar as part of a vinegar dressing (don't do this every time)
* Savory dressings you invent yourself (ideally, not vinegar, nor oil dressings)

Things to avoid in this style of salad:
* Mandarin oranges
* Avocados
* Vinegar (except on odd occasions)
* Apples
* Pears
* Plums
* Peaches
* Pickled peppers (the vinegar taste combined with the texture overpowers)
* Real bacon bits (I know you probably like them, but no)
* Spinach
* Cold, processed chicken cubes
* Adding too many thick vegetables in the same salad (e.g. cucumbers, carrots, celery, and peppers); they can overpower the lettuce and become the base
* Other fruits (although, if they're not thick or wet, there's more of a chance they might work)
* Multiple sweet fruits in the same salad. I mean, if you're already using cranberries or raisins, don't add the strawberry-vinegar dressing. the salad as a whole is supposed to be at least mostly savory.
* Multiple kinds of meat on the same salad

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Do you like immitation crab?

Yes, and it tastes like crab.

Yes, but it doesn't taste like crab.

It's okay / no preference (but I have tasted it).

I don't know. Never had it.

No, and it does not taste like crab.

No, but it does taste like crab.

No, and I've never tasted it and/or crab.

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List of vendors that sell herbs, vitamins, minerals, supplements, spices, or foods:

* herbco.com / Monterey Bay Spice Company (shopped here once; I really enjoyed it)
* mountainroseherbs.com (never shopped here)
* nuts.com (I've shopped here multiple times; I love it)

List of vendors for fertilizer, soil amendments, minerals, and such:

* alphachemicals.com
* greenwaybiotech.com

See this article entitled, 'Elephants Help Zebras Coexist with Cattle', July 29, 2008: https://www.conservationmagazine.org/2008/07/elephants-help-zebras-coexist-with-cattle/

It's pretty interesting.

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Here's an article about risks associated with consuming reptile products:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19679367

Here's an article about the viability of farming snakes for meat:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/asian-snake-farms-conservation-curse-or-sustainable-enterprise/55920297BFED7418BDB7D82C89936112/core-reader

See this article: https://thecounter.org/case-against-octopus-farming-cephalopod-aquaculture/

In essence, farming carnivores, such as octopi, may cause depletion of the fish they eat (which in some cases may be entirely wild-caught).

Also see this similar article about farming European eels.

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