Posted on 06/24/2013 5:04:31 PM PDT by opentalk
Always fun to have the city kids come to the farm!
Did they ever take you snipe hunting?
Oh, I agree. Just the hysteria in the article esp. about how some of the chemicals had eeevvvviiilllllll uses annoyed me.
BookMark for later reading.
No. After my complete failure at cow tipping they said I wasn’t qualified.
I had some I keep cold - drank a big glass. Am I gonna die?
People must be free to eat whatever they want to eat. Period.
Statistically, yes. 100% probability.
Yup. We use to tell em we raised naugas for the hide.
It has a lot more to do with they are more nanny than even we are, not that the food is bad.
That's precisely the point.
In a way, it’s like brand extension. People of a certain persuasion think organic = good, while chemical = bad. They have no idea what the words actually mean. Given the plasticity of the English language, those words will soon be corrupted beyond recognition.
Dang! The corruption has already happened. Right after I wrote the above, I checked the definition of “organic” using an on-line dictionary. Here’s one of the definitions:
d. Simple, healthful, and close to nature: an organic lifestyle.
So, I guess, “organic salt” (Na-Cl) is supposed to be simple, healthful, and close to nature. As opposed to the inorganic mineral salt I’ve been ingesting all my life, which remains one of those evil chemicals.
One of the great strengths of the English language is how adaptive it is. Apparently, that’s also its greatest weakness. If enough self-righteous ignoramuses call salt “organic”; then, against all reason, salt can be organic. (Once again, we’re talking about Na-Cl — not actual organic (i.e. containing carbon) salts
People who consume dihydrogen monoxide invariably die.
Ah yes, I remember the onion milk.
I sorta doubt they are that dangerous. I think it’s just rejection of free market products.
>>>I support the right of U.S. food companies to distribute toxic pre-packaged convenience foods.
I exercise the right not to eat them.<<<
Good point. But it is true that food standards in America are low.
did you make them carry bags and beat the ground with a stick???
“...I was going to ask for organic table salt...”
I read a report recently somewhere that was talking about how buyers must be careful when buying “sea salt” because of heavy metal and bacterial contamination.
Aha! That’s probably why I recently developed a taste for sea salt — a deficiency of heavy metals.
To me, an organic salt would be something like Sodium acetate, which would give a salt-and-vinegar flavor. However, I don’t think that those who run organic food stores ever sat through an organic chemistry class.
Those numbers are about useless among developed countries, because deaths at birth are treated so differently among them.
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