# eliminating factory farms: impossible or just diffiicult?

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 3, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eliminating-factory-farms-impossible-or-just-diffiicult/716688 "2015-04-03T05:02:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eliminating-factory-farms-impossible-or-just-diffiicult/716688/81 "2015-04-20T21:41:54Z")

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> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Now instead of four in the eights place
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> You’ve got three,
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> 'cause you added one,
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> That is to say, eight, to the two,
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> But you can’t take seven from three,
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> So you look at the sixty-fours.
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> - Tom Lehrer

\<puts on straight-man hat\>

Sixty-four.  
How did sixty-four get into it?

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**Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eliminating-factory-farms-impossible-or-just-diffiicult/716688/82 "2015-04-20T21:44:08Z")

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> [@qazwart](#):
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> Homo Erectus was a hunter, and over its 200,000 year period of its existence, the size of the brain grew from Hablis size to almost modern proportions.

\<nitpick\>

_H. erectus_ existed for 1,800,000 years, not 200,000.

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