Excellent work, would love to get you talking to some S. Korean papers for interviews to coincide with the release of NCsoft's Q4 2012 financial reports. If they're as dismal as rumors say, a well timed interview would be a nice one-two punch.
Yeah, keeping the pressure on them is the absolute best. I hope more people come out to interview VV every time NCSoft releases any financial information.
I recall a rumor that was going around the South a number of years ago that McDonald's was 'stretching' the meat in their burgers by mixing it with ground-up earthworms. I had to admire the way McDonald's quashed the rumor -- they had a PR person make a presentation, with documentation, showing that pound for pound earthworms cost more than what McDonald's was paying for their ground beef; they would have been reducing their profits to use earthworms in their burger patties.
If fast food were to stretch meat (and they do) they would do it with tofu (because that's what they were caught doing).
Earthworms just seems silly, anyways. Though that seems like a bad way to prove a point. "Our food is so crappy, the earthworms would be a step up".
We're running into increasing rates of cancer and heart disease and the like because they're traditionally health issues that affect you the older you get.
Because unlike 2000, 1000, or even 100 years ago, our average life expectancy isn't way down in the twenties and thirties.
Life expectancy was never 20 or 30 years old. If average lifespan was 30 years old ever, and it was, it was because child and infant mortality rates were so high, dragging the average down. Once you got to about 20, you were expected to live to 50-60. The 'average' age wasn't what was averagely expected of somebody that made it beyond childhood.
If you think about it, it wouldn't even make sense for people to only be expected to live 20 years. If it takes 14-16-18 years old for a human to become physically or emotionally mature enough to even *consider* being independent, and if you had a child at, let's say 14, you wouldn't even live long enough to raise your own kid to his 6th birthday. Let alone have a 'farm family' of 8 kids.
If people actively typically died at 20, then not only would there be a lot of 6 years olds raising themselves, but things like grandparents would be unheard of.
Taking out infant and childhood mortality rates, men lived to be in their mid 60s to early 70s on average (not taking the black death into consideration, which did indeed drop it to about mid 20s during those particular years).
Source: Expectations of Life (1990): Lancaster, H.O.
Even then, people who didn't die of the plague didn't die younger. That's like saying that people only lived to 20 years of age during times of war because swords had a habit of killing 20 year olds. It might be 'true' mathematically but paints a very confused picture of how people actually lived.
So all those experts out there saying they are caused by pollution and bad nutrition are wrong ?
Nope, they're probably right. I've heard also that some people's allergies get messed up by over use of antibacterial agents. I'm not talking about vaccines or nothing, I mean like over use of antibiotic cleansers and stuff.
In fact now some doctors are saying the anti-oxidants are CAUSING some cancers.
Yeah, it's difficult to say what will and won't cause cancer. It might be true that oxidization is a factor in your body aging, but it can't be the only factor. After all, there are some biologically immortal animals out there and they're using oxygen too.
Fact is, the human body just isn't meant to last forever. Science might fix that, but it's not likely gonna come just from eating more vitamin yogurt or some quick fad.
And we're better at detecting diseases nowadays, too.
The funny irony is that, the more we're able to tell how the body works and what diseases are, the less we're able to really define exactly what death is and when you're dead or not.
