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• Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation…
• Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than…
• Like most North Americans, I'd been raised on the notion that milk is the first food, and everybody must like it because…
• Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger,…
• I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.
• In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery
• I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than…
• But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we…

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