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Old Thu, May-16-19, 15:03
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In photographs, Mark Zukerberg always looks like a Ken Doll, including the flocked hair. Why does his skin look plastic? Is he a cyborg?

I don't doubt that people promoting the Vegan lifestyle add the political plus of saving the planet to make it sound like the right thing to do. They have many good stories to tell, just like we do.

We've abused children for decades by depriving them of natural fat and feeding them processed food with sugar in everything. Now we can deprive them of essential animal proteins and vitamins for growth in their bodies and brains.

We were already well on the way to universal stupidity, and now the future is secure for brain atrophy.

I'm leaving.

(Well, not immediately. Nature will take its course in a couple or three decades.)
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Old Thu, May-16-19, 16:05
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We've abused children for decades by depriving them of natural fat and feeding them processed food with sugar in everything. Now we can deprive them of essential animal proteins and vitamins for growth in their bodies and brains.

We were already well on the way to universal stupidity, and now the future is secure for brain atrophy.

I'm leaving.

(Well, not immediately. Nature will take its course in a couple or three decades.)


It is truly horrifying to me how horribly wrong and damaging most nutrition research is. It is so badly conducted, the conclusions reached so unsupported. We are living in the dark ages with so many people nonetheless thinking that they are enlightened.

My friends and downstairs neighbors just moved into assisted living. They are both near 90 years old with a gazillion things wrong with them. The dietary advice they have been given is only adding to their misery if not creating some of it that doesn't have to be there. I felt helpless to help them, knowing that I would be unsuccessful if I tried to intervene. It makes me very sad.
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Old Thu, May-16-19, 18:11
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Originally Posted by JEY100
This is scarier, New threat to Low Carb, copied from a Tweet :Tim Noakes
~ProfTimNoakes

#Banting7DayMealPlan Facebook page deleted today. Guess the crime is that 1,65 million people believe that ~xeyedmess
and the LCHF/Banting lifestyle "saved" their lives. Somebody doesn't want the world to know that.

This is like the reception Banting got, so he had to print his pamphlet himself.
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Old Fri, May-17-19, 09:28
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Could THIS be an explanation as to why Facebook decided to delete the Banting group?


Facebook Joins Forces with Vegan Company to Promote Plant-Based Lifestyles

Yes, you've nailed it. There are many today who have made a fortune in businesses some through honorable methods and some through nefarious methods. When they get to a point where they're completely full of themselves and believe their business success translates to them being omniscient and omnipotent in life to the point where they truly believe they have a duty to influence people, that's where I become very resistant. We see this dynamic in Hollywood, Big Business, certain Colleges & Universities, and other areas in our social system. For many of these folks, the firm belief that they know better results in suppression of those who believe differently in the form of shutting down opposing views by banning participation. Facebook, Google (YouTube), and others in the information industry are vigorously practicing this method, and due to having virtual digital monopolies in these cases, are getting away with it.
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Old Fri, May-17-19, 09:54
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Could THIS be an explanation as to why Facebook decided to delete the Banting group?


Facebook Joins Forces with Vegan Company to Promote Plant-Based Lifestyles


Occam's Razor. Yes.
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Old Fri, May-17-19, 20:22
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Dr. Fung's facebook group is going gangbusters. What gives?
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Old Sat, May-18-19, 05:46
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I'm not buying it. Not that Facebook isn't being all big-brothery, I bet they got triggered by something other than diet and just aren't bothering to explain themselves.
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Old Sun, May-19-19, 06:02
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I'm not buying it. Not that Facebook isn't being all big-brothery, I bet they got triggered by something other than diet and just aren't bothering to explain themselves.


Like not knowing what "Banting" is.
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Old Mon, May-20-19, 04:20
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The Banting page has been re-instated by Facebook, the the story leaves some questions:
http://foodmed.net/2019/05/facebook...day-meal-plans/

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What’s really behind Facebook’s deletion of one of its biggest low-carb groups, the Banting 7 Day Meal Plans? The social media titan’s responses leave more questions than answers.

Did interests opposed to low-carb therapies sabotage the group? Did Facebook assist that agenda without checking for conflicts of interest?

Facebook claims that a “user” hacked and deleted the group. That made the deletion “voluntary” from within, it says. If so, what does that mean for the personal data of the group’s more than 1,6million users?

There are 1.1 million South African “Banters” – as supporters of low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) therapies are known in that country. The rest are scattered across the planet. Could the hack have compromised their data? Could the user have hacked Facebook as well?

Facebook has gone to great lengths to suggest otherwise. It reinstated the group on May 17 but not before its sudden removal on May 14 went viral. That precipitated a tsunami of protest from users and supporters around the world on Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook’s communications head for sub-Saharan Africa, Kezia Anim-Addo said via email that it did not delete the group. That’s despite notification to the group’s admins logged in at the time that it had done just that.

More at link above
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Old Mon, May-20-19, 04:23
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People stumbling into big giant things and don't know what they are doing.

Seems legit
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Old Mon, May-20-19, 05:46
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Notification to the groups admins--well a lot of the time, I'll perform an action on some site and then get an email notification of what I've done. So without seeing the wording, I don't know how I'd interpret that. At any rate, this is at most suggestive of local tampering, whether by some employee of facebook or not, rather than a grand, global facebook scheme to turn us all into the Children of the Soy.
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Old Fri, May-24-19, 09:34
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"Children of the Soy" . . . priceless, and if it's not copyrighted teaser, I plan to use this.
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