If fewer calories are required for the body's basic functions, energy can be re-directed towards growing.
But if the trend towards growing ever larger is clear, the economics of bigness are far murkier.
However, there are two major concerns regarding fossil fuels, i.e. their rapid depletion and their contribution towards growing global warming.
Worst of all is the shift towards growing maize, whose cultivated area in this country has risen from 1,400 hectares to 160,000 since 1970.
But, done correctly, they might temper the tendency towards growing national inequality [pdf] which that model produced, as well as being more sustainable.
There seems to be a natural inertia towards growing and letting go of any business, but even more so a charity.
This is especially true of those directed towards growing the skills of local workforces and fostering opportunities through locally focused enterprise, innovation and productivity.
During her time at Princeton, Oluwatoyin has been involved in a number of activities geared towards growing the black community on campus.
Yet white biotechnology could revolutionise the use to which the countryside is put, shifting it away from growing food and towards growing raw materials for industry.
DNA of northern white rhino — of which only two remain — mixed with that of close subspecies in a bid towards growing population using surrogates.
In fact, this trend towards growing inequality is not unique to America's market economy; across the developed world, inequality has increased.
