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Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.


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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.



If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.




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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.



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