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> canyoureadthiseasily?ididn'tthinksoeither.nobodywriteslikethisinenglish This is very legible for a native english speaker

Believe me, the organic transition had nothing to do with agricultural practices and all to do with economics, with the logic being that fertilizer was an expensive import, and by …

This is posturing, 100%. The OAS is a useless hindrance to the project of American integration, but AMLO doesn't really care about that, he's just following the populist playbook o…

Can you provide an example of one of these counties and why you consider they are undergoing "degrowth"? Degrowth is usually conceptualized as an intentional process, rather than e…

I really appreciate HN for providing a refreshingly healthy, intellectually stimulating forum for discussion. In fact, as someone who is decidedly outside the tech-space, I mainly …

> Lighter regulation around rare "small market" diseases might save a lot of lives. And money. Orphan drugs for rare diseases are already subject to less regulation.

Not at all. While animals can be pastured, most of the livestock in developed countries is reared in grain-fed CAFOs. These are, in most cases, grain that is suitable for human con…

I'm gay and I don't find it obvious or convincing that it's about societal homophobia. Moreover, that wouldn't explain the gap between straight and lesbian women, either.

Part of the issue is that the so-called "Standard American Diet" is so bad in the first place that any deviation from it can produce encouraging results. I tend to agree, however, …

This is unfortunately the status quo of nutrition research; A long-term RCT is the "gold standard", but it is exceedingly difficult to recruit subjects and ensure their compliance …

Neither poster makes convincing arguments; you can find anecdotal reports of nearly any diet producing seemingly miraculous results, but any consideration of one's eating patterns …

It's not, that's what a review is.

I understand your gripe about inconsistent spelling, but what do you have against diacritics? Diacritics typically serve to make orthography more consistent in some matter, typical…

I've got to say, I'm shocked to see this piece chock-full of fallacious logic in the Guardian. > Is mother nature a psychopath? Why would she design foods to shorten the lifespan o…

I don't understand why people are looking to insects over legumes for protein. Legumes are widely cultivated and socially and culturally acceptable. Protein is pretty much a solved…

> they tend to seek part-time employment arrangements Do you have a source for that?

"Latin American" and "Hispanic" aren't race markers. They're a regional identity and an ethnicity, respectively, which exist alongside race.

The food prices link seems to be for Namibia, not Germany.

There are plenty of vegans who don't regularly use meat substitutes. Imo, it seems like most of them are more directed to curious meat-eaters rather than vegans.

Not OP, but I don't think this is such an irrational point of view. We're already seeing the effects of climate change; it's no longer the looming danger in "the future", it's some…

Climate change reduces to an international prisoner's dilemma, and there are surely countries and constituents thereof that won't want to stomach the sacrifices that it would entai…

Sexism, for one.

The TTS is fairly good, but it's still TTS. Imo, real native-speaker content is a must for any language program worth it's salt.

This is 100% satire

Viruses aren't alive, and they certainly can't reproduce without host cells, so saying that they survive on their own doesn't seem like a terribly accurate statement. Trying to ext…