A healthy outlook. The cases for Nutrition and Rational entrepreneurial thinking

People worry about all sorts of things, e.g. that the climate, through heat waves and floods, will cause the end of the World. This is partly explained by neuroticism, a precursor to anxiety and depression, and which is related to mental fallacies which can interact in a reinforcing loop. Nutrients play a role. Eating food which contains many micronutrients, Choline, and Docosahexaenoic, increases the probability that we can apply rational entrepreneurial thinking (RET). For example, If all Americans become vegans, it wouldn't influence the climate. In the United States 150 years ago, when the prairie flourished due to ~ 60 million roaming buffaloes. It's about the Biogenic Carbon Cycle. If regenerative farming is applied, livestock help to improve the top soil (ecology). 2 sidor.

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People worry about all sorts of things, e.g. that the climate, through heat waves and floods, will cause the end of the World.

Worrying about the future, that is neuroticism, is the precursor of anxiety and depression (Hirsh and Inzlicht, 2008), and is partly explained by malnutrition (Dobersek et al. 2021).

Neuroticism is also related to something called mental fallacies, For example:

• Collapse anxiety the widespread, underlying fear that despite current prosperity, Western society is living on “borrowed time” and that a sudden economic, environmental, or social disaster will destroy modern life (Esterbrook, 2003)
  
  
• Confirmation bias, the tendency to apply the same theory on all situations, or search for information which fits the conviction (Nickerson, 1998; Wason, 1960, 1966; 1968; Wason och Shapiro, 1971).
  
  
• Dysrationlia – the inability to think and behave [epistemic and instrumental] rationally despite adequate intelligence (Stanovich, 1993, 2011, 2016; Toplak, West, Stanovich, 2013).
  
  
• Myside bias – a psychological disinclination to abandon a favored hypothesis (Stanovich, West och Toplak, 2013).
  
  
• Continued Influence Effect – Misinformation continues to influence memory and reasoning about an event, despite the misinformation having been corrected (Cacciatore, 2021).
  
  
• Natural stupidity – our species propensity to rely on information which are either prototypical (Kahneman och Tversky, 1972), available (Tversky och Kahneman, 1973), or just easy to access (Kahneman and Tversky, 1977).
  
  
• Negativity bias (Baumeister et al. 2001).

These biases interact in a reinforcing loop.

Due to the media's exaggeration of negative news (Pinker, 2018), peoples fear increases, and for some reason their fear is attributed by conforming to the idea that we can stop the ending of the World by abstaining from eating animal source food. Another claim is that abstinence from eating animal source food will improve health.

I believe that It's possible to suppress mental fallacies by eating food which contains 13 vitamins (e.g. A, several B:s, C, some D, E, K2-Mk4 and Mk7), 15-16 minerals (Heme-Iron, Magnesium, Zinc and so forth), choline, as well as Docosahexaenoic, Arachidonic fatty acids (Österberg, 2020), which I believe increases the probability that people can apply Rational entrepreneurial thinking (Österberg, 2021; Swedish). RET is based on three factors:

• Epistemic vigilance (Sperber et al. 2010) – be suspicious of any message, and why someone is sending the message.
  
  
• Disjunctive reasoning – take all options into account to apply epistemic and instrumental rational thinking (Shafir, 1994; Stanovich, 2009; Toplak and Stanovich, 2002).
  
  
• Numeracy – the foundation for rational thinking – is the ability to understand, reason with, and to apply simple numerical concepts (Brooks and Pui, 2010).

Abstaining from animal source food will cause a reduction of greenhouse gases by 2.6% (White & Hall (2017).

An example that illustrates this is the United States. 150 years ago, the prairie flourished due to ~ 60 million roaming buffaloes (Hooper, 2013).

This is because of the Biogenic Carbon cycle:

If regenerative farming is applied, livestock help to improve the top soil (the ecology) (Rowntree et al. 2020).

Read: Österberg (2019). “Perception versus facts”: What is the future for sustainable food? The case of the prospective mind (UH)

Check out my 12 minute presentation at International Dairy Foundations (IDF) Global Dairy Conference in Copenhagen, October 15: Why do people hate agriculture (The case for rational entrepreneurial thinking)

Check out my ~1 hour presentation for Verghese Kurien Centre of Excellence (VKCoE)research centre at IRMA, Anand What's the future for Agricultural : the case for entrepreneurial thinking

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