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  "some medical studies have shown that being too thin carries as much or more of a risk of death than being what our culture considers too fat"

  What studies have shown that? Can you put a link to them here, (put a web address)?

  I understand that people who are extra thin tend to live a lot longer.

  We have too many growth hormones in the food supply. AND we eat too much protien and too many calories... for our own good.... on average.

   

  On No healthcare reform without food-system reform posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago 8 Responses

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  What if we were to decide that the inherited wealth of biodiversity is a birthright to all human beings and other animals? We could decide, then, that those who do things on the Earth that have an adverse impact on biodiversity and ecological health generally, (such as plow meadows and plant monoculture), will be made to pay a fee to the people as compensation for the fact that the people are allowing some encroachment on or some taking of that which is the birthright of every citizen.

  This fee could be set at a level high enough to ensure that the practice of plowing or paving the Earth or doing some other damage to the environment is kept at overall levels that are not excessive, that do not offend the majority of citizens.

  If most people felt that the planting of monoculture sugar cane or corn or oil-seed crops or animal feed crops was contributing to a system where certain foods are overabundant to the detriment of human health and society at large, there could be an additional fee or higher rate, so that the perponderance of foods in the market roughly balanced what most people and most nutritionists believe is a healthy mix. Then there would not be an excess of those high-energy foods that we have evolved a strong appetite for, owing to their relative rarity through our evolutionary history.

  On No healthcare reform without food-system reform posted 5 months ago 8 Responses