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More Questions than Answers

I just stumbled on Dropping Knowledge, a German-based non profit association. The website:
invites you to ask and answer questions covering social themes of global significance. When you ask in order to understand, when you answer in order to share, this is what we mean by dropping knowledge.
A pretty tempting idea, and some questions are relevant:
Is it possible to make peace more profitable than war?
While others are just plain strange:
If it would be possible to copy food lossless within a few seconds from any point across the world to any other, who would pay the prisons needed for all the evil third world country copyright pirates?
and, of course, lame:
What happened to Love?
It may work better if they moderated the questions a little bit better. And if the person who wrote the question had to submit a 500 (give or take) word essay giving their opinion. And it wouldn't hurt if they actually had more questions covering social themes of global significance.

Anyroad, maybe the second question isn't too bad. I would pose it as such:

If it were possible to "teleport" food safely and economically, what impact would it have on the world's economy?

or: What if a deadly human disease emerged and it was found to come from a domesticated farm animal (think mad cow, but on a larger scale) how would that affect meat consumption and the farming industry?

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