Your missing the point bud. I personally taper off my nutes the last couple weeks but don't starve them. It's what I believe, it's what I do. Nobody is telling anyone what to do. I stopped letting people do that what I was 13, well except my wife. She knows where I sleep and has access to my toothbrush. We could go into a debate about the stored food in the leaves and not giving them food so they use up that energy. Than I would just say, but I cut off the leaves off so I don't care what they store. In the end this is a community full of individuals and they are all entitled to their opinion. Don't listen to me, hell don't listen to anyone. Take in all the perspectives, vete those perspectives and form your own opinions. Than prove those opinions right or wrong for yourself. That's the only way true knowledge will be gained. Also try to have some fun while you are doing it, hence the gif of the dog licking the shit etc... In the end, you do you.