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If you want to live longer, feel healthier, and save the world all at the same time, there's only one thing you can do: go vegan.
 
Don't believe me? Just look at the facts. The most common cause of death in the United States right now is a heart attack, but if you stop eating meat, dairy, and eggs, your risk of a heart attack falls by 90, I repeat, 90 percent.
 
Meanwhile, people who eat animal products are around 3 times more at risk of developing cancer than people who've either gone totally vegan or seriously cut back on the amount of meat they eat.
 
Oh, and if that wasn't reason enough to drop meat, dairy, and eggs from your diet, consider this: breast milk infected with pesticides is about 35 percent more common in moms who eat meat than it is in moms who don't eat meat. But the health benefits of going vegan are almost secondary to all the good it does for the planet.
 
Vegans are often portrayed in the media as extremists, but when you consider the amazing amount of waste and destruction that goes into supporting our meat-heavy diet, it's the carnivores that look extreme.
 
Not only does a meat-based diet require 3 times more fossil fuels than vegan diet, it also hoards resources that could be used to feed the tens of millions of people that go to bed hungry every night.
 
In fact, John Robbins, one of the world's leading experts on vegan diets, estimates that we could feed almost 100 million people if Americans cut their meat consumption by as little as 10 percent.
 
Read more here.
 
-Thom
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Hour One: How billionaires made America delusional
Article: "When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions" by Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler.
Quote: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain".
Article: "Confirmation bias" by Wikipedia.
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Article: "Thousand points of light" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).
Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 "The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
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Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
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Article: "Iranian deal a 'forever agreement'" by Jordan Fabian.
Article: "Accused Boston bomber followed brother's lead, defense argues" by Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber.
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Hour Three: The government wants you to be a vegan now
Article: "Vegan diet best for planet" by Lydia Wheeler.
Article: "You Cannot Be A Republican And A Christian" by SquareForceOne.
Article: "Adventist Health Studies" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says" by Kim Geiger, January 22, 2011.
Article: "Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas" by Karoli.
Article: "Turning the other cheek" by Wikipedia.
Bible: "Matthew 26:52" "'Put your sword back in its place,' Jesus said to him, 'for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.'".
Article: "Prosperity theology" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Epic of Gilgamesh".
Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Gene Robinson" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Bake for them two" by tenthousandplaces.
 
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Article: "This City Could Become The Next Detroit" by Carl Gibson.
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