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Is it fundamentally any different from something like toothpaste?

Humans have created a technology (mechanised farming) with a side effect we haven't yet evolved to handle (an abundance of tasty calories), so it doesn't seem all that strange we would fix it with a technology (inhibiting the desire for said calories).




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