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[Apr 11, 2010, 2:24 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

We went to see comedian Susie Essman perform live last night, as she was performing near some friends, so we made an evening out of it. I have occasionally marveled at how funny Curb Your Enthusiasm is considering the show is not scripted, but seeing just how sharp she is at improvising in person helps understand how the show's gifted cast is clearly an important part of the formula as well as Larry David's comic genius in creating the storylines.

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22. Re: Feces Apr 12, 2010, 10:26 kanniballl
 
Jonny wrote on Apr 12, 2010, 07:17:
I thought America has vast open plains and a tiny population density, why all the intensive farming shit? If the EU can feed 700 million people without growth hormones, feeding cows other cows and increasingly better conditions for other farm animals like chickens, why can't America feed it's 300 million similarly with twice the available land?

LightAssasin is right, to a degree.

There are other factors, like because we have so much farmland + food, and thus competition, that the smaller / classic farmers get screwed because they can't compete with the large corporations that dedicate efficiency over quality.

So just to keep their heads above water they wind up adopting up some of the same practices the corporations use to either cut cost or increase output: hormones, chicken slaughter-houses vs free range, etc.

It's sometimes not as much about greed as simply keeping the farm running.

Remember, here in the US we specifically pay some farmers to *not* produce.
  
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurama
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