🚀 go-pugleaf

Melissa wrote:
> 
> In article <36632507.676244B0@clark.net>, klaatu <klaatu@clark.net> wrote:
> [...]
> >> They already have, or didn't you hear? Infanticide is common there on female
> >> newborns and the state has mandated no more than one child per couple or
> they
> >> get forced into an abortion. Both of which totally stink and are
> totalitarian
> >> as hell. I'd much rather see it done freely through education, propaganda,
> and
> >> freely available BC means.
> >
> >That's how it started. But sadly, given the prevailing deeply-ingrained
> >cultural attitudes in China, totalitarian measures were required.
> >Interestingly, if China can successfully continue this for another 30 years,
> >they will be in possession of the best technologized society with the highest
> >ratio of resources to population, outside of that nasty little iodine
> >problem...
> 
> Iodine?
>

Vast stretches of China, for some odd reason, are almost totally devoid of the
element iodine, which is essential for proper thyroid function. However,
iodine is of course easily made from sea-water, and in fact kelp contains high
concentrations. 
 
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> 
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