Sixty-three years ago University of Chicago urologist Charles Huggins proved you could treat prostate cancer in dogs by castrating them.

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Similarly, when they took away the source of the testosterone in male rats by castrating them, the brain degeneration was lessened.

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Now, France's Minister for Europe, Pierre Lellouche, has accused David Cameron of "castrating" Britain's position in Europe, adding that his approach was "pathetic".

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Now I have yet to hear that my Vegan friends are poisoning themselves, the females giving themselves estrogen-related cancers, the males self-castrating, and that tofu is a heckuva contraceptive.

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