Miscellaneous News

Somebody fix the Reno bike path for tree roots as well.

They're downright treacherous.

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You don't have to agree with the philosophy of this pro-industry group to realize the United Nations has gone absolutely batshit with the "environmental vegetarianism" as of late.

It's all quackery.

But that doesn't stop the nutjobs from trying to scare people into eating the way they do

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So unless someone comes up with a plan to drastically remake the human body, we are destined to keep eating meat. We have the teeth to tear it, and the digestive hydrochloric acid to dissolve it. What we don't have is two or three spare stomachs with which herbivores are blessed, in order to process all the vegetables we would need to eat instead.

Meat-eating was essential for human evolution, according to a 2003 paper by Katharine Milton, an anthropologist with the University of California in Berkeley.

About two million years ago our ancestors began to eat red meat on the African savanna, to supplement a vegetarian diet that had become too meagre. Without regular meat meals," she wrote, "it is highly unlikely that evolving humans could have achieved their unusually large and complex brain while simultaneously continuing their evolutionary trajectory as large, active and highly social primates."

Human children, in particular, needed dense nutrients to fuel their rapidly growing, unusually large brains.

University of New Mexico researchers, among others, have drawn the same conclusion, stating that this prehistoric dietary shift to meat led to the unique qualities of human existence, including increased brain capacities, an extended juvenile period in which to furnish the brain, and a much longer lifespan.

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In consistently disguising their political proposals behind pseudoscience, and pretending that the data dictates the policy, the environmental lobby not only demonstrates a remarkable lack of belief in scientific innovation - it also exposes its own dearth of political imagination. And when a senior figure at the IPCC starts proposing vegetarianism as ‘the most attractive opportunity’ in the attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, an unholy alliance is achieved: the petty authoritarian instincts behind the politics of behaviour meet the miserabilist, anti-modernist instincts of the environmental lobby.

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A Reno writer has a new book out on the murder of Nevada controller Kathy Augustine, and of course I will get the book when I get the money.
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