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by mikestew 2807 days ago
Ever hear of the phrase of war "Salt the earth"

You mean the entirely symbolic ritual after an area is conquered? Or did you mean the myth that this was actually done to actually render the land infertile? 'cuz that didn't happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth

I normally wouldn't be this pedantic (oh, who am I kidding?), but when I got to this: you begin to realize that this commercially farmed food literally takes more energy and nutrients out of your body in the processes of digestion, metabolization, assimilation, and elimination than you get from the food!

...I realized we'd wandered off to fantasy land, so a little pedantic banter couldn't make it worse.
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jenks 2807 days ago
What's so hard to understand here? The processes of digestion, metabolization, assimilation, and elimination each take energy and nutrients to work. Foods grown in low-vitamin dense soil inherently have less nutrients to provide the organism which consumes them.
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mikestew 2807 days ago
What’s so hard to understand, you ask? The part where you say that most of us run an energy deficit from the food we eat, yet don’t reconcile it with an obesity epidemic in the U. S., just for starters. But I’m not going to further engage such silliness, so have the last word.
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jenks 2807 days ago
You're assuming that obesity and a lack of energy are mutually exclusive when, in fact, they're very much related. In fact the main reason people become obese is that their liver must shuttle the massive amount of toxins into fat when it gets overwhelmed with toxins because it takes, get this, a lot of energy to detoxify your body.

Look at commercially farmed meats. How do you make the most money as a meat farmer? You sell meats by the pound so your goal is to get the heaviest animals possible. How do you get the biggest animals the fastest? You make them fat instead of muscular because it happens quicker. How do you do that? It turns out that you feed them garbage and treat them like garbage.

Cement powder, plastic chips, dead animal parts and even sewage are approved by the FDA to be fed to animals in commercial farms.

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