“I don't believe in a punative god who deals out punishment, but I do belive in the intrinsic goodness of humankind and that there are real consequences to bad behavor.”
“Really? Class envy?...freebies? As far as I can determine, Obama wants to even the playing field...and I'm glad that by extending the unemployment, more families don't lose their homes and can feed their children. I do hope you are eating well and taking care of yourself, so when that catastrophic illness hits you or a family member, after you've exhausted your bank account, I hope the house you live in won't be taken from you and if you live, you can afford the medications to live a decent rest of days in comfort.”
“I agree with you...every child is deserving of a college education if they want it. Just because you may come from a less than stellar financial family does not mean you should not have a chance to be educated properly. Every child in this country deserves quality education. I appreciate that our President wants dignity for everyone even if they can't afford it. There should be not one child in this country that ever goes hungry. Yet, they come to school starving every day. Seniors should get their medications and should not be abandoned. What is wrong with providing a life worth living? There are certain reforms that should be made when abuse is apparent..but the children and elderly need to aided at times.”
“Small business can't make...I know. My friend started a business and a larger, competing company who pays lawyers to sniff and snuff out competition sent my friend a letter...not a welcome to the business world, to be sure. She had to find a lawyer, spend $$ on changing her logo, and before you knew it she was out of money. Her business is gone. As far as I can see, there will be no recovery while our government is in bed with big business/banks... Both banks & corporations need to be regulated because de-regulation condones a grab and run (out of the country) market. It's all about greed. FDR had it right --”
“We are omnivores and in whatever medium our food (plants and animals) are grown, we eat what they eat. Currently, between farming practices with exploitive fossil fuel fertilizers and outrageous ag complexes and their bad practices, i.e. genetic and feeding processes to fatten our beef/poultry, our food sources are not healthy. We are sick because our food source is sick. And actually, it's what we asked for - fast food. I'm for slow... cooked... meals, seasoned with lot's of lively conversation. It's up to individuals like us to make a commitment to eat only healthy protein and vegetables. I like Pollan's advice...if your grandmother doesn't recognize it, don't eat it.”
“I love shrimp - the ones that cook up pink and frangrant and live the ocean only! But, I find now that the ocean waters are so polluted that the shrimp's exoskleton is soft and mushy. I remember when the shells were hard and cracked when I cleaned them. The flesh was firm...now they're all soft and spongy. It makes me really sad because it speaks to our sad practices.”
“I believe you are right. I suspect autism is the degradation of reproductive cells caused by manmade toxins. One in 150? or 60? - it's something awful like that - kids has autism or some form of aspergery disorder.”
“There's nothing wrong with the EPA conceptually. It's just nowhere near where it could do some good. We need local farms with local jurisdiction...the EPA is a facade to make you think that someone is watching the shop. No one is. Get a clue...it's all about our corporations. Reagan is the grandfather of corporate government and his GOP decendents haven't changed. And the dems aren't too far behind, I'm sorry to say.”
“Really? Most microbes are good for you. It's only those out of whack super bacteria's that we initiated by introducing the "better living through chemistry" mentality. I agree with Northwestgirl...I want to know if my tomato has fish genes spliced into its genetic strand so it won't bruise easily. Food matters.”
“I totally HATE Montsanto...the destruction this company has leveled on us, our environment, and our farmers/farming practices is outrageous. The cat is finally out of the bag... See the film "Food Matters" and maybe you will be motivated to do something...anything...to change the way you live. Think. Do something.”
“It is shocking who and how many high ranking officials in our Government have sat on Monsantos boards. Clarence Thomas, Hillary Clinton to name a few.”
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“I had the same thing happen to me in Petaluma! I don't generally have allergies. But one day, while visiting my sister, I was hit with an allergy so severe that I was effectively "blind." In order to drive back to SF, I had to put tissues around my glasses lenses to keep the pollen out. It was very bad...I've also been caught on the freeway btwn Seattle”
Yes, if you buy a 1/4 cow at a time sure, the prices drop! Of course, most people cannot buy a 1/4 cow at a time and more cannot because they don't have room for it.
If that is the standard, then people need to buy a quarter or half a pig if they purchase pork, whole chickens in bulk, etc and that isn't feasible for most people.”
“I read the article and wasn't going to post a comment as I agreed with everyone's angst. But after watching the video, I just want to know, is this a comedy skit? Can that guy be so...brain damaged? Change is needed...I mean total change for an ethical, kinder, more just society. With that kind of representation, I feel sorry for us all.”
“Generally speaking, not practical. Most of us do not live near enough local farms to feeds us. And with so much acreage cultivated for ethanol production, flooding Missouri farmland, and government subsidy programs, local farms do not grow produce for local consumption.”
“You are right - it's all about the bottom line. I live in a city and all I can do is communicate my dissatisfaction, backed up with community action. It's the pebble on the pond approach to help raise consciousness. I take it you live in a more rural setting.”
“Have you looked at http://www.eatwild.com/ or http://www.localharvest.org/? I've lived in 2 large cities and 2 small towns over the last few years and I've been surprised at what's available. The small towns were in farm country, but I figured there wouldn't be enough interest in CSAs and I was wrong. The cities were so big, I thought farms would be too far away, but so far, that's not the case.”
“Better living through chemistry? I think not. There is something soul-less about growing food in a petrie dish. There are so many small interactive components in food that a small change can be disasterous to your health. Look at the butter/margarine debacle. We need to fix our food supply -- sometimes going backward is going forward.”
“Thanks for the education, but Mary Anne's comment about gene spicing fish genes into tomatoes is old news and still worrisome. I'm not sure her conclusions about tumors, etc. are researched. Per Monsanto, the practice of gene splicing is supposedly "safe" but the jury is out as we haven't had time to really study the effect. Note that food eaten today affects the health of our grandchildren (see PBS epigenetics). I don't want to eat food that has been modified or altered genetically.”
“I just talked to my naturopath about cholesterol...she said there is a lot controversy about it and some very expensive drugs to deal with it. The medical assocation keeps changing the cholesterol limit threshhold. I agree with you that variety is really important.”
I definitely think our understanding of cholestorol is skewed by the media and the industry.
Seems that the emergent bad guys in artherosclerosis and heart attacks are insulin and leptin resistance, inflammation, and homocysteine levels. Cholesterol and saturated fat don't "clog the arteries" per the popular heart attach metaphor. Cholesterol is sort of like plumber's putty. The arteries can be damaged (by viruses, by overproduction of insulin, oxidants) and that damage triggers an inflammation response, sort of like a fix-a-flat. Cholesterol then provides a better fix until the damage can be permanently repaired.
In other words, cholesterol is apparently not causing damage, but correlated to damage. A person with high cholesterol levels may simply be fixing a lot of arterial damage.
Eliminating serum cholesterol, then, does nothing to get to the heart of what is causing the damage. Further, the Lipid Hypothesis's demonization of dietary fats has conflated dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, which are not connected since serum cholesterol is produced in the liver apparently unrelated to dietary inputs.”
“Good food is really cheap. You just need to know how to cook it. The problem is that most people don't know how to cook and are limited in their approach to food. Legumes are cheap and good source of protein... Poor people never ate meat the way we do. It's just recently that the industrial food complex serves up cheap meat in large quantities. 'talk to someone from another country who grew up poor and you will find that they may have had meat once a week, if that. In the USA there are a lot of very fat well fed people who are nutritionally starving or dying of diabetes. Twenty-five percent of our population doesn't have clue that they have diabetes. I'm not sure what a dialogue about a healthy diet has to do with a "limo liberal"...what is that? "limo liberal?"”
“New studies in epigenetics have found that it's our grandparents, not our parents who give is our health. All the bad food you've eaten will be legacy given to your grandchildren. See the PBS documentary on epigenetics and you will have a new understanding. Be that as it may, our food supply is corrupt and has to change for the sake of great grand children.”
“Wow, we really ARE on the same page... saw that epigenetics piece and it really got me to thinking... It's really kind of scary to think what the last few decades of bad diets are doing to those epigenetic switches...”
“You can't compare the two generations in food supply alone. Most of our grandparents grew up on a farm, with no electricity, no shoes, etc. They left the farms as soon as they could. Industry and mechanized farming became the power source of the United States. We became a food exporter. Beef and grain was to supplied to the world markets where starvation was the biggest problem, not obesity or diabetes. As I say there is a hole in our collective memories, in our history.
Globalization, speculation, usury in the food supply, contraction of production is the grave danger facing the population today.”
“Chocolate milk is like soda...lots of sugar. Someone else in this strand identified sugar as the inflammatory culprit. Unless you are lactose intolerant, milk, cheese and other byproducts are just fine, that is if they are organic and not homogenized. Homogenization of milk changes the fat size...as milk's fat is large (and largely delicious!) and is better for you.”
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