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Nonsheepness is a word.

Nonsheepness: (Adjective) not like sheepness or like a sheep. e.g. His nonsheepness in advocating that nonsheepness is a word is awe inspiring. Harold's nonsheepness is manifested by the fact he never eats grass or produces wool.

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I like your direction here. This is similar to what I have already devised.

As much as I'd like to spill the premise out, you know how the internet goes. I've mostly focused on concepts like AI, singularity, digital hive minds, etc..

Regarding the intelligence and feelings of creatures that do exist and which have yet to exist, I think that the designer uses, and will use, feelings to try to manipulate the analytical mind into doing what he would want his creation

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Let's begin with life expectancy. The largest study to date finds that vegetarians/vegans live years longer than meat eaters on average. More specifically, vegetarian and vegan men live 3.2 years longer, and vegetarian/vegan women live 2.5 years longer (this out of a sample size in excess of 34,000). That is very raw data. Obviously vegans and vegetarianisms may have aspects of their lifestyles that contribute to this difference besides diet (though it does at least correct for gender discrepencies).

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While the global meat industry provides food and a livelihood for billions of people, it also has significant environmental and health consequences for the planet. Experts predict that the worldwide consumption of pork, beef, poultry and other livestock will double by 2020, although this prediction may be dampened by the recent economic downturn. A team of Stanford University researchers has been assessing the environmental impact of the meat industry in light of this inevitable growth and is offering

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For example, GMO foods are not being developed today in order to improve anything other the market control that chemical companies have over agriculture and in particular the sales of their agrochemicals. Most GM seeds, 80%, have been engineered not to improve anything other than their resistance to pesticides. Is this the best that biotechnology has to offer?

The cost of opposition to GMO foods likely is in the scale of millions of lives. And that isn't exclusively in the form of

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