Comments on: Fish – Now By Prescription

By: jaimeastorga2000

jaimeastorga2000 — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:01:51 +0000

Non-Marxist leftism.

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By: Friday Links | Meta Rabbit

Friday Links | Meta Rabbit — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:49:00 +0000

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By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:49:53 +0000

Besides, it’s a plant! You can’t trust it! You don’t know what’s in it!

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:14:09 +0000

That didn’t happen in any of the examples in this article. Deplin doesn’t have a PR campaign against methylfolate in the drug store. We can be very sure of that because there is no campaign against it. Maybe the articles about how fish oil goes rancid are promoted by Lovaza brand fish oil. But more likely, they’re promoted by krill oil companies. In any event, I don’t see in them in the newpaper. Instead, the newspaper is very much for fish oil. As you just said, newspapers are just as likely to jump on “new miracle food” as “it will kill you dead.”

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By: Fnord

Fnord — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:01:59 +0000

Serfdom just IS a caste system. It’s not, as far as I can tell, slavery evolved into a caste system. Indeed, it seems to the opposite: an economic caste system of tenant farmers beholden to land owners formalized into law. It’s not evidence that slavery tends to evolve into a caste systems if it didn’t evolve from slavery in the first place.

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By: Deiseach

Deiseach — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:21:22 +0000

Would it be worth it for an Evil Pharma Company, which decided to have a look at this crazy notion that potatoes are good for you and is really close to launching POTAXOR, to fund a campaign disparaging natural remedies?

Along the lines of “Not only is this superstitious nonsense and it doesn’t work, it will also kill you to death by poison!!!!” I mean, it seems the newspapers will print ~~any old rubbish dished out as a press release by businesses~~ important scientific research extracts from serious peer-reviewed journals, especially when it comes to “fruit or vegetable X – new miracle food/it will kill you dead!”

Then, once the public (or the newspaper-reading section of it) has been conditioned not to nip down to the greengrocers for a stone of Kerr’s Pinks, the Evil Pharma Company releases POTAXOR – you can trust us, this is SCIENCE!!!! and makes a fortune from all the doctors who have been given free pens prescribing it to their patients?

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By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:02:41 +0000

Nornagest says:
June 16, 2014 at 1:46 pm

“Outside of subsistence or low-tech extractive economies, slavery tends to die out, or to evolve to a point where it looks more like a complicated and fairly subtle caste system than the simple and brutal chattel systems we’re most familiar with. I haven’t thought too hard about why this is…”

Quite simply it’s because of the abilities and inclinations of the populations of societies that are capable of sustaining and creating economies that are more advanced than subsistence or low-tech extraction. Populations that can do that have members who can arrange their own affairs and provide for their own care.

Populations composed of people with poor future time orientation cannot make profitable business arrangements because they cannot fulfill contracts that require future performance. In a non-sustenance level economy people like that either starve or are fed and sheltered by others. Since people are self-interested they extract something in exchange for taking on people as wards – either labor in the case of slavery or votes in the case of progressive democracy.

If the whole society is made up of such people it never develops an economy more advanced than sustenance level.

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By: peterdjones

peterdjones — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:21:49 +0000

Ish. A private healthcare provider that supplies drugs directly, as some do, would be motivated to purchase cheaply (although they mig.ht also have incentives not to cover that condition,etc)

Otoh, if the patient is paying direct, pass the inflated cost onto them…

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By: Nancy Lebovitz

Nancy Lebovitz — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:44:27 +0000

My normal approach to chicken liver is to buy a pound, cook it, and consume it over the course of a day or two– this only happens a few times a year, so I don’t seem to be at high risk.

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By: tut

tut — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:14:41 +0000

Don’t eat it every day. Apparently 100 g of chicken liver is considered one serving, and it contains more than half as much vitamin A as is safe to eat per day for a long time. But having just one portion once is not a problem. It is a relatively common food and has lots of several vitamins, proteins, iron etc.

In terms of environmental toxins, chickens are killed when they are less than a year old so unless they get particularly bad feed it shouldn’t be a problem.

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