20,000 calories a day

[Childs]

I suppose if you think one generation is enough to produce guaranteed traits...

Umm...you would suppose wrong. Thats why I said generations. Slave owners were breeding the best workers they could over many generations.

 

[dank69]

Umm...you would suppose wrong. Thats why I said generations. Slave owners were breeding the best workers they could over many generations.

So they bred them not for their own gain, but for the future?

 

[surfsatwerk]

So they bred them not for their own gain, but for the future?

A very altruistic and noble goal.

 

[Childs]

So they bred them not for their own gain, but for the future?

Just like horses or any work animal. You have some who were breeding for better stock to sell, and slave owners breeding future generations. They would also use slaves like any other commodity, so there was value in them. You have big strong slaves, you could demand more money.

 

[dud]

"Many challenges are ahead for Mason, but nothing compared to when he was at his heaviest and reportedly needed seven caregivers, working in three shifts around the clock, to cook his meals, change his incontinence pads, and turn him over every three hours to prevent bedsores"


7 caregivers? I wonder how much that cost the taxpayers in the UK?

 

[Juddog]

I don't see how people kept bringing him food. If you're too fat to get your own food, then you deserve to starve a little until you can walk your ass to the store. That's nature.