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Omg, you are such a party-pooper! nossy Send a noteboard - 10/12/2009 05:26:18 PM
It's about each individual. Not about banning foods or anything. Just "food for thought."


What you essentially posted was a propaganda piece, I think on reading this surely some will hesitate to buy tomatoes in a can or corn-fed beef, or apples - I know it wasn't your intent, but you're assisting fear-mongering. It isn't about the indiviuadal, it's about the facts, and the fact is that many of these simply don't hold up under inspection and people shouldn't be buying more expensive food for fear of essentially being poisoned. There are some concerns on these matters, some of them at least, but these products represent no significant danger, and to say otherwise is, well, not appropriate. People should make up their own minds, but not under a pall of fear.

I suppose that might be our difference there: I'm slightly flexible regarding propaganda pieces if they are erring on the side of healthiness. Typically I'd agree with you, and probably even have posted the same type of response to me that you did.;) The only one of the above that truly bothers me is the farmed fish, and I should have said so.

It may be wrong-headed of me, but through a various combination of factors (extensive reading, AG degree, etc), I am fairly well appalled at the food that people eat w/o any thought. We trust that it's good for us, but most of us don't even read the labels, let alone understand what we're reading. I'm willing to let you call me out about the bias above, but certain things are true (and I know them to be true from university experience), like the pesticides on the apples and potatoes, etc. Maybe this is the thing about which I am a zealot. I do know that I'm a food snob.:P Especially cheese. Mmm, cheeeeeeese.
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/food: The 7 foods experts won't eat nossy - 10/12/2009 01:04:04 AM 1122 Views
Our potatoes have been sprouting since, well... ever. And I don't think we buy them organic. *NM* Ghavrel - 10/12/2009 01:11:45 AM 473 Views
Our eyes grow and green up a little, but that's minor compared to when you buy organic. nossy - 10/12/2009 02:06:37 AM 714 Views
Maybe. Ours start putting out those little bud... things. *NM* Ghavrel - 10/12/2009 02:32:28 AM 339 Views
Yeah. The "eyes" bud. nossy - 10/12/2009 02:58:16 AM 705 Views
Sheesh. danskyw4lker - 10/12/2009 01:16:03 AM 791 Views
Joel Salatin is my hero. *NM* Mad Cow Bomber - 10/12/2009 02:46:41 AM 568 Views
I really have to challenge many of these Isaac - 10/12/2009 03:36:05 AM 744 Views
And that is fine. Read the opening paragraph. It's not a scientific study. nossy - 10/12/2009 02:29:53 PM 760 Views
Nevertheless... Isaac - 10/12/2009 03:14:19 PM 762 Views
Omg, you are such a party-pooper! nossy - 10/12/2009 05:26:18 PM 702 Views
LOL, I actually am not the bane of all new ideas Isaac - 10/12/2009 06:19:06 PM 695 Views
but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that? LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 06:28:44 PM 735 Views
Re: but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that? Isaac - 10/12/2009 07:01:14 PM 765 Views
hot dogs are one of those things that ARE just horrible LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 07:08:09 PM 750 Views
Eeeeyuck Isaac - 10/12/2009 07:18:10 PM 789 Views
Pft, so you say. nossy - 10/12/2009 08:19:00 PM 752 Views
omigod cheese didn't you read that bit about ARTIFICIAL HORMONES?!?!?! LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 06:22:11 PM 640 Views
You wouldn't believe the dangers involved in cheese Isaac - 10/12/2009 07:08:48 PM 699 Views
did you know instead of bacteria... LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 07:15:15 PM 667 Views
I'm pretty sure I just took a pill with about 500 million bacteria in it. Is that bad for me too? nossy - 10/12/2009 07:18:29 PM 582 Views
dihydrogen monoxide should not be ignored!! LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 07:20:59 PM 741 Views
T'is my civic duty Isaac - 10/12/2009 07:30:42 PM 726 Views
he's one of the mega-nerd professors who has a grudge. LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 07:41:19 PM 652 Views
Probably not even a trekkie either Isaac - 10/12/2009 07:53:17 PM 647 Views
LOL, just found this Isaac - 12/12/2009 10:24:59 AM 795 Views
Potentially fatal, you know salmonella is a bacteria right? Isaac - 10/12/2009 07:40:54 PM 686 Views
Thank you *NM* motionsickness - 10/12/2009 03:01:32 PM 439 Views
Hmm. cabbage - 10/12/2009 04:52:48 AM 776 Views
You don't eat apples? danskyw4lker - 10/12/2009 05:13:56 AM 743 Views
I do, but not the ones he's talking about. *NM* cabbage - 10/12/2009 01:04:16 PM 345 Views
Health aside, farmed Salmon just tastes a bit horrible. Liam - 10/12/2009 11:57:34 AM 723 Views
that would depend on how it has been farmed. *NM* jh - 10/12/2009 01:08:33 PM 324 Views
Probably. I guess I've just been unlucky. *NM* Liam - 10/12/2009 01:31:15 PM 374 Views
Meh. LiterateDog - 10/12/2009 12:19:18 PM 562 Views
See what I said to Isaac. nossy - 10/12/2009 02:33:24 PM 727 Views
I'm always a bit dubious on food health scare stories snoopcester - 10/12/2009 12:34:29 PM 572 Views
Remember when tomatoes gave you cancer? *NM* cabbage - 10/12/2009 05:31:50 PM 348 Views
Yeah.... ah, good times *NM* snoopcester - 10/12/2009 05:36:10 PM 333 Views
Hm. I actually refuse to eat non-farmed marine fish of any kind. Morgawse - 10/12/2009 01:24:26 PM 800 Views
Rod caught tuna snoopcester - 10/12/2009 05:37:42 PM 669 Views
There aren't enough tuna left. Morgawse - 10/12/2009 06:25:19 PM 685 Views
aren't there a few species that are actually better to harvest? LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 06:30:42 PM 608 Views
If you catch them with rods, I suspect it is sustainable. jh - 10/12/2009 08:17:49 PM 831 Views
who the hell wants to fish in the middle of the ocean?? LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 08:29:43 PM 680 Views
You'd totally have to be on a boat or something. jh - 10/12/2009 09:55:20 PM 649 Views
I love deep sea fishing. *NM* Rebekah - 10/12/2009 11:50:39 PM 360 Views
weirdly enough, i don't get sick on boats. LadyLorraine - 10/12/2009 11:54:34 PM 743 Views
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