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jvans | on: Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove
> I really do expect we will all be on this

When antibiotics were first invented some people thought we'd be taking them daily as a vitamin. Turns out that's not such a good idea despite them being life saving in some scenarios

taeric | parent | next
This is a thing that always blows my mind.

The accepted view is a lot like the accepted views to mono-cultures for crops. In that they are bad. The practiced take, though, is quite the opposite? Crops are dominated by mono-cultured fields. And though antibiotics are known not to be used constantly, farms seem to use them at an amazing rate.

I'd love to see a longer exploration of this. Why is it farms seem to be full of practices that we are taught are bad?

Izkata | root | parent
> The practiced take, though, is quite the opposite? Crops are dominated by mono-cultured fields.

Not exactly. We have crop rotation because over time a strict mono-culture wasn't very good.

taeric | root | parent
I'm curious on the numbers on this. Every time the general topic comes up, avocados and bananas seem to come up and completely spurn the idea. Googling says 80+% of crops are rotated on a regular basis. Though, it is noted that "cover crops" are sub 10% of rotations. Which seem to be required for fruit farms.

At any rate, I'll be reading more on this some. I have real work I should be doing, after all. :D

Scoundreller | parent
My totally off-the-cuff theory is that we’ll only need a lifetime of ozempic and its clones every 3-4 generations to reset the obesity cycle.

I guess we’ll soon be able to measure the impacts on what it does to the children of parents that take it.

How have McDonalds Happy Meal sales been looking lately?