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Re:The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals by Quarrelsome on Monday August 03, 2009 @11:15AM (#739353)
No. Cities are more likely to breed human disease than lots of small hamlets. That's all.

The argument being put forward is that anything that creates disease is bad. My argument is that a lot of what we already have is built with that trade-off against us.

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Re:The Omnivore's Delusion: Against the Agri-Intellectuals by calambrac on Monday August 03, 2009 @11:38AM (#739406)
That wasn't the argument at all, that was your absurdist disingenuous interpretation of the argument. Anything that creates disease is a pretty wide net. He was specifically talking about industrial farms, because they seem to have particularly dangerous conditions in this regard.
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