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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 as we keep printing dollars, the real world value of a dollar will decrease. The value of a bitcoin should always increase relative to the dollar).

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 ground is covered with snow.

> (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 insensitive might therefore wonder whether German companies might have been more logical targets.

I thought Germany is bailing Greece out?

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. My grandma was borderline diabetic a year ago. She was getting very worried, so I was finally able to convince her to try it and now her test results are great.

Even if you're a type I diabetic, this will manage your symptoms although it won't cure you. Check out "Good Calories Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes.

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 given it a lot of thought, and that's precisely the reason I eat local pastured meat.

I have to recommend http://lierrekeith.com/vegmyth.htm again for anyone who's interested in this issue.

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 fossil fuel-based fertilizers. Without oil yields would plummet. Overpopulation is the problem.

Ideally, animals should be raised either on land that's not suitable for agriculture, or on the farm, eating the inedible plant parts and providing more of a closed-loop ecosystem.

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 vegetables. The animals ate the cellulose (inedible to us) and scraps and created protein. They also created fertilizer (today it is synthesized from fossil fuels and wreaks environmental havoc - the Dead Zone at the mouth of the Mississippi is mostly caused by nitrogen runoff from farms) and ate bugs, so there was no need for pesticides.

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 http://lierrekeith.com/vegmyth.htm for a great intro.

Meat is also healthy. Grains are not. See any of these

Good Calories Bad Calories/Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes, The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf, http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cholesterol/#axzz1wxjdQqRB

Eat real food.

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 has one short leg, recommend amputation (the difference in length causes hip and back problems down the line). I'm sure the doctors could easily find out about Paley if they looked into it.

The parents I've talked to are the few who have refused to accept that they have no choice and have done their own research. My heart aches for the kids whose well-intentioned parents didn't question their doctor.