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The l video map comes from Ollie Bye and shows the entire history of Iran, from 600 BCE to 2020, every year. year by year in just 8 minutes.

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https://brilliantmaps.com/history-of-iran/#more-20467

Map of people displaced following US "interventions" in countries post 11th September 2001.

Or the actual definition of ultra processed.

The figure for each country represents the percentage of "total purchased dietary energy", from household surveys.

These are industrial formulations manufactured mostly or entirely from sugar, salt, oils and fats, starches and many substances derived from foods but not normally used in kitchens, and additives including those used to imitate the sensory qualities of natural foods or to disguise undesirable qualities of the final product.

Ultra-processed foods include sweet, fatty or salty packaged snack products; ice cream, chocolate, candies; mass-produced packaged breads, cookies, pastries, cakes; breakfast cereals; ‘energy’ bars; preserves; margarines; carbonated drinks, ‘energy’ drinks; milk drinks, including ‘fruit’ yoghurts; cocoa drinks; infant formulas, follow-on milks, other baby products; ‘health’ and ‘slimming’ products such as powdered or ‘fortified’ meal and dish substitutes; and many ready-to-heat products including pre-prepared pies and pizza dishes, burgers, hot dogs, poultry and fish ‘nuggets’, and other reconstituted meat products, and powdered and packaged soups, noodles and industrial desserts.

(From the article to which Zell12 links.)

Ireland needs to be separated from northern ireland . I was watching Countdown ( presented by Colin Murray ) who in a proud tone was saying Halloween was an Irish thing , or as he called it Sam Hain . I winced .

I've met alot of Northern lads who look up Irish things but don't know the pronunciations

Most cured meats are graded as ultra-processed. If the meat is cured simply by drying, smoking and/or salting, then it's processed, but not ultra-processed. Prosciutto, artisanal bresaola and indeed ordinary ham would be examples of this. But if the processing involves sugar, nitrates, emulsifiers, stabilisers, flavour enhancers, colourings, etc then it's going to be classed as ultra-processed. Probably the bulk of cured meats that you find in a typical supermarket are ultra-processed.

Italy in 1796

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Map of tropical storms, 1848–2013

https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1935413714066239642/photo/1

The Pentathlon of Ulster .

Red is by James I ( vi of Scotland ) orange is privately planted .

Ulster was the most Gaelic province with alliances with Scottish Gaels so it was divide and conquer

I'm still calling bs on the UPF figure being that low. Traditional food is traditional, what they actually eat now is shockingly processed.

Its a country where breakfast is some heavily processed cheese with some heavily processed ham with some oil based product resembling "butter" in an incredibly white, Chorleywood process long life roll; and where lunch and dinner comes with frozen chips; all washed down with small but constant volumes of macro lager from a division of Heineken or a division of Carlsberg. It is a shocking unhealthy diet.

It's not 10%. Something is being underreported or misreported to get that figure; lots of somethings realistically.

Fewer than Ireland would not mean that 10% isn't absolute fantasy!

And realistically, from my experience, I believe the diet there is vastly worse than here. This isn't based on going to some tourist resort full of, well, Irish people on holiday either.

A few less processed vegetables doesn't make up for the sheer volume of crap bread, cured meat and chips that get wolfed down.