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Correlation does not imply causation. People who play basketball are tall. Therefore playing basketball makes you taller.

It's not a pyramid scheme. Although it does reward early adopters for taking a risk, eventually price should stabilize at a real world value (as opposed to a dollar value. As long …

Are you sure about that? In the wild plant foods are only availiable in season. Also, what about tribes that lived in places with cold winters? There are no plants to eat when the …

> (Germany) seems to be doing much to force the Greeks into performing hideous acts of financial restraint, after the Greek economy imploded like Microsoft Vista. The more insensit…

The industry will never come up with a cure because there's more money in chronic treatments. At the same time, why do we even need diabetes technology? Just go on a low-carb diet.…

Is it the farmers who have a powerful lobby, or the food processors, such as Monstanto and ADM?

Also, I just want to make it clear that I'm not trying to bash vegetarians. Just the opposite - I think it's great that people care. Eating ethically is very important to me. I've …

That's probably true. However, like I said above, our agriculture is also unsustainable. Most of the increase in crop yields over the past few decades have come as a result of foss…

What if the animal ate only grass? Also, keep in mind that modern grain agriculture is 100% dependent on fossil fuels. Back in the day, animals were raised on the farm along with v…

Vegetables are real food. Fake meat is not.

Meat is not bad for the environment. Factory farms are indeed terrible, but they're not the only way to raise animals. On the other hand, grain agriculture is beyond fixing See htt…

There's a doctor named Paley in Florida who specializes in lengthening limbs. I've talked to many of his patients and their parents. Most doctors, when presented with a child who h…