Sure, but what about the millions of species which humans don't have a particular interest in eating or hunting? Or should we welcome a world where the only animals are domesticated cows, chickens, etc, with maybe a few special ranches for rhinos and lions. Nobody's going to have a fucking garter snake, orb weaver, or bullfrog farm.

Obviously name recognition can be gained or lost over time, as a lot of people are talking about AMD these days.

Maybe you are right about microplastics, but the largest source of plastic in the ocean is from busted fishing nets.

It's not deceptive.

When you say "some misguided regulation", it sounds like you are implying that regulation is generally misguided if it causes the price to go up. True, logically, your sentence only applies to a particular category of regulation that happens to be misguided, and says nothing of regulation that is not misguided. But, if you consider the sentence to still be true without the word "misguided", then this violates the principle of efficiency. Perhaps regulation exists for some other reason than short term prices.

True, it's low grade. But it could be refined. It may not be economically competitive to refine it now, but in the future, it probably will be. Unfortunately, we don't know how to value natural resources for the long term, but I suppose that's a problem for children.

Even if we could transport freely to the moon and Mars, it's not like it would stretch our carrying capacity very much. It'd be much less than another Earth, and at our rate of consumption, a whole other Earth wouldn't last us all that long.

That's exactly why the law is on the cyclists side. Otherwise the car driver would have no reason to care at all.

Cars hold up traffic.

Better than a logjam of 30 to 50 cars on a 2-lane road.

That's historically and legally inaccurate. Now, you can have the opinion that bicycles are secondary citizens, but it's only an opinion. I mean, that's basically what this article is about -- drivers thinking cyclists are less than human.

Bicyclists doing crazy things does not negate car drivers aggressively menacing bicyclists. Generally, the bicyclist doesn't do any harm to drivers with their stunts, while drivers harm cyclists all the time. If someone engages in self-harm, that does not justify others harming them also.

Just get rid of the income tax. All we need is a tax on land and certain other types of property, and fines for pollution.

They will lobby for laws to prevent laws that require labeling.

I think they just feed farmed fish wild caught fish, so the mercury is still there. There might be a difference in amount.

Well, that 20 cents can come out to more than 5% for a $4 purchase.