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		<title>Comment on The major lies of vegan/vegetarian pseudoscience. by A.J. Venter</title>
		<link>http://silentcoder.co.za/2009/11/the-major-lies-of-veganvegetarian-pseudoscience/comment-page-1/#comment-13549</link>
		<dc:creator>A.J. Venter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh and I suppose you&#039;ve never actually seen how Chimps kill baby monkeys for food. I have. STFU.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh and I suppose you&#8217;ve never actually seen how Chimps kill baby monkeys for food. I have. STFU.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The major lies of vegan/vegetarian pseudoscience. by A.J. Venter</title>
		<link>http://silentcoder.co.za/2009/11/the-major-lies-of-veganvegetarian-pseudoscience/comment-page-1/#comment-13548</link>
		<dc:creator>A.J. Venter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Your sources are Jane Goodall ? She died before Bonobo&#039;s were even recognized as a different species. While she was a good scientist - her work is - to  put it mildly - decades out of date and entirely discredited now.

I said nothing of the ORIGINS of our teeth - I spoke of the NATURE of our teeth - and that IS verifiable scientific fact.

Even then you are wrong - the origins of mammalian teeth are very well known. Mammals unlike any other group of animals have interlocking teeth that are specialized to various jobs. Such teeth have many advantages but come with one major disadvantage: you can&#039;t just keep replacing them since they are so specialized and each one is unique. Crocs and sharks and the like - just keep growing teeth for ever since every tooth is the same as the others. So the problem is- mouths get bigger, the teeth that are perfect in a young-un aren&#039;t in an adult. So mammals (all mammals) grow two sets, one as we leave the very early stages of childhood to last through until just before puberty - and a second which we keep for the rest of our lives. We know the origins of this since it&#039;s clearly visible in the fossil record. More importantly - this created an evolutionary pressure that did not previously exist. What the hell do you feed the babies before that first set of teeth grow in ? 
Result: milk glands. We became mammals BECAUSE of our teeth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your sources are Jane Goodall ? She died before Bonobo&#8217;s were even recognized as a different species. While she was a good scientist &#8211; her work is &#8211; to  put it mildly &#8211; decades out of date and entirely discredited now.</p>
<p>I said nothing of the ORIGINS of our teeth &#8211; I spoke of the NATURE of our teeth &#8211; and that IS verifiable scientific fact.</p>
<p>Even then you are wrong &#8211; the origins of mammalian teeth are very well known. Mammals unlike any other group of animals have interlocking teeth that are specialized to various jobs. Such teeth have many advantages but come with one major disadvantage: you can&#8217;t just keep replacing them since they are so specialized and each one is unique. Crocs and sharks and the like &#8211; just keep growing teeth for ever since every tooth is the same as the others. So the problem is- mouths get bigger, the teeth that are perfect in a young-un aren&#8217;t in an adult. So mammals (all mammals) grow two sets, one as we leave the very early stages of childhood to last through until just before puberty &#8211; and a second which we keep for the rest of our lives. We know the origins of this since it&#8217;s clearly visible in the fossil record. More importantly &#8211; this created an evolutionary pressure that did not previously exist. What the hell do you feed the babies before that first set of teeth grow in ? <br />
Result: milk glands. We became mammals BECAUSE of our teeth.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The major lies of vegan/vegetarian pseudoscience. by Daniel</title>
		<link>http://silentcoder.co.za/2009/11/the-major-lies-of-veganvegetarian-pseudoscience/comment-page-1/#comment-13547</link>
		<dc:creator>Daniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>chimpanzees diet consists of 1-4% of meat and is nutritionally insignificant as are the bugs they eat which makes up 4%. Eatting Meat and bugs are political and cultural tools. They do not eat meat for nutritional reasons. Please read the following if you really are as you claim a man of science

A critique of: A hypothesis to Explain the Role of Meat Eating in Human Evolution by Katharine Milton by Jane Goodall. Scientifically credible information on Vegan and Vegetarian dietshttp://www.ecologos.org/index.htmlhttp://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/inc…Goodall, Jane, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (1986), p. 233Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, Worth Pub., (1982), p. 158.Graph showing primate dietshttp://www.ecologos.org/primatediets.htmhttp://www.ecologos.org/meat-eating.htm

Nobody knows the truth about the origin of our teeth, stop pretending you do, unless you have conducted an extensive study and can bring new evidencve forward on the subject stop presenting opinion as fact. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>chimpanzees diet consists of 1-4% of meat and is nutritionally insignificant as are the bugs they eat which makes up 4%. Eatting Meat and bugs are political and cultural tools. They do not eat meat for nutritional reasons. Please read the following if you really are as you claim a man of science</p>
<p>A critique of: A hypothesis to Explain the Role of Meat Eating in Human Evolution by Katharine Milton by Jane Goodall. Scientifically credible information on Vegan and Vegetarian dietshttp://www.ecologos.org/index.htmlhttp://www.brookfieldzoo.org/pagegen/inc…Goodall, Jane, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (1986), p. 233Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, Worth Pub., (1982), p. 158.Graph showing primate dietshttp://www.ecologos.org/primatediets.htmhttp://www.ecologos.org/meat-eating.htm</p>
<p>Nobody knows the truth about the origin of our teeth, stop pretending you do, unless you have conducted an extensive study and can bring new evidencve forward on the subject stop presenting opinion as fact. </p>
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		<title>Comment on The libertarians: Part 4 &#8211; Supply and Reprimand by Charles</title>
		<link>http://silentcoder.co.za/2012/01/the-libertarians-part-4-supply-and-reprimand/comment-page-1/#comment-13546</link>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Impressive. I love two blogs in this country, yours, regarding economics and hismastersvoice.wordpress.com, regarding geopolitics, RSA politics and literature.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Impressive. I love two blogs in this country, yours, regarding economics and hismastersvoice.wordpress.com, regarding geopolitics, RSA politics and literature.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The libertarians part 1: Who are the thieves ? by A.J. Venter</title>
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		<dc:creator>A.J. Venter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And that vast majority of historical societies where nobody owned the land, but everybody was free to use it&#039;s resources didn&#039;t ever exist ? The tribes may have warred each other for resources, but they didn&#039;t fight amongst themselves for it. The same system can exist today - just think in terms of a much bigger tribe. In fact cooperation exists in nature where-ever a species can survive better by not competing internally. Packs of herbivores are cooperative, and this even happens interspecies. That&#039;s why giraffes usually graze with zebras. Zebras have stronger noses, Giraffes can see further - together they are safer than either alone. Each eating what they need of the veldt, none being left out. 
As to humans - well we can see what we are evolved to be by looking at our closest relatives. That would be the Bonobo-chimpanzee. They have so much in common with humans it&#039;s scary - they are intelligent, self-aware and problem-solving... and they really, really like sex. More interestingly - scientists have nicknamed them &quot;the hippies of the forest&quot; which is a remarkably accurate description of their lifestyle. They share everything, they have no concept of &quot;mine&quot; or &quot;yours&quot; and they are perfectly peaceful among themselves. They really DO prefer to make love, not war.

Even if you ignore all that, you never answered my core point. There are no examples in the world today of property being in the hands of it&#039;s rightful owners. If you truly believe that property rights is the basis of a peaceful society and that taking it by force is never acceptable as you claim - then you should be campaigning for the occupation of unused land just as I am - and as I explained in the text - to restore by justice the property that was stolen to those it was stolen from, and you must then support wealth-redistribution to restore the wealth generated from that stolen property to the people it should have belonged to.

PS. There are 3 more posts in this series. Do read them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And that vast majority of historical societies where nobody owned the land, but everybody was free to use it&#8217;s resources didn&#8217;t ever exist ? The tribes may have warred each other for resources, but they didn&#8217;t fight amongst themselves for it. The same system can exist today &#8211; just think in terms of a much bigger tribe. In fact cooperation exists in nature where-ever a species can survive better by not competing internally. Packs of herbivores are cooperative, and this even happens interspecies. That&#8217;s why giraffes usually graze with zebras. Zebras have stronger noses, Giraffes can see further &#8211; together they are safer than either alone. Each eating what they need of the veldt, none being left out. <br />
As to humans &#8211; well we can see what we are evolved to be by looking at our closest relatives. That would be the Bonobo-chimpanzee. They have so much in common with humans it&#8217;s scary &#8211; they are intelligent, self-aware and problem-solving&#8230; and they really, really like sex. More interestingly &#8211; scientists have nicknamed them &#8220;the hippies of the forest&#8221; which is a remarkably accurate description of their lifestyle. They share everything, they have no concept of &#8220;mine&#8221; or &#8220;yours&#8221; and they are perfectly peaceful among themselves. They really DO prefer to make love, not war.</p>
<p>Even if you ignore all that, you never answered my core point. There are no examples in the world today of property being in the hands of it&#8217;s rightful owners. If you truly believe that property rights is the basis of a peaceful society and that taking it by force is never acceptable as you claim &#8211; then you should be campaigning for the occupation of unused land just as I am &#8211; and as I explained in the text &#8211; to restore by justice the property that was stolen to those it was stolen from, and you must then support wealth-redistribution to restore the wealth generated from that stolen property to the people it should have belonged to.</p>
<p>PS. There are 3 more posts in this series. Do read them.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The libertarians part 1: Who are the thieves ? by Perry741</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Like it or not, , from the cellular level, through ‘organisms’
like grubby little political rats and Mafia goons protecting their turf (by
means never fair and always foul) to macroeconomics and geopolitics, life
itself  is a competitive process, not a
cooperative one.


Cooperation, which by definition is consensual (in contrast
to compliance, which can be obtained by coercion) only exists where there is
mutual benefit, where the self interest of both parties is served. 


When property rights are not respected, there is conflict…when
demented, wild eyed Vikings go on a rampage of rape and pillage, burning and looting
(in service of their self-interest) people become quite upset, particularly the
ones who are emasculated and impaled before having their screaming women
carried off.


It is only when property rights are respected, or at least
when a particular status quo is conceded, and alteration thereof achieved through
mutually agreed trade to the advantage of both parties, can peace prevail.


Force is force, whether an individual acts directly against
others who he reckons hold ‘his’ property, or gets the ‘state’ which holds the
monopoly upon the use of force to act on his behalf against such others is of
little consequence in that it precludes peaceful co existence.


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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like it or not, , from the cellular level, through ‘organisms’<br />
like grubby little political rats and Mafia goons protecting their turf (by<br />
means never fair and always foul) to macroeconomics and geopolitics, life<br />
itself  is a competitive process, not a<br />
cooperative one.</p>
<p>Cooperation, which by definition is consensual (in contrast<br />
to compliance, which can be obtained by coercion) only exists where there is<br />
mutual benefit, where the self interest of both parties is served. </p>
<p>When property rights are not respected, there is conflict…when<br />
demented, wild eyed Vikings go on a rampage of rape and pillage, burning and looting<br />
(in service of their self-interest) people become quite upset, particularly the<br />
ones who are emasculated and impaled before having their screaming women<br />
carried off.</p>
<p>It is only when property rights are respected, or at least<br />
when a particular status quo is conceded, and alteration thereof achieved through<br />
mutually agreed trade to the advantage of both parties, can peace prevail.</p>
<p>Force is force, whether an individual acts directly against<br />
others who he reckons hold ‘his’ property, or gets the ‘state’ which holds the<br />
monopoly upon the use of force to act on his behalf against such others is of<br />
little consequence in that it precludes peaceful co existence.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Photography by Inside-out &#187; The Blog From Hell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Inside-out &#187; The Blog From Hell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on The libertarians part 1: Who are the thieves ? by A.J. Venter</title>
		<link>http://silentcoder.co.za/2012/01/the-libertarians-part-1-who-are-the-thieves/comment-page-1/#comment-13541</link>
		<dc:creator>A.J. Venter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well it&#039;s a four-part series, succinct as your comment was - it&#039;s nice to know somebody read it :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well it&#8217;s a four-part series, succinct as your comment was &#8211; it&#8217;s nice to know somebody read it <img src='http://silentcoder.co.za/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on The libertarians part 1: Who are the thieves ? by Thedobrev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Thedobrev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting.</p>
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		<dc:creator>The libertarians: Part 4 &#8211; Supply and Reprimand &#187; The Blog From Hell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] with the greatest level of efficiency&quot;. Now this almost sounds good, unless you recall from the first post in this series that capitalism defines efficiency rather differently than most people &#8211; [...]</description>
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