Posted on 06/24/2013 5:04:31 PM PDT by opentalk
The joke would appear to be on you, if you took us seriously.
The problem with the "woo" definition of organic is that it is not a definition at all. ("Woo" refers to pseudoscientific quackery; it's a term I picked up at one of the science blogs.)
Sometimes, at the store, I notice the term "natural" printed on a package. That's another one I wonder about; I am hard-pressed to imagine *any* product that could be made using non-natural processes. Do manufacturers of "non-natural" products hire wizards and alchemists to make their wares through arcane means?
I do take some comfort in that stores take the effort to specify that some foods are organic. Although why they would make the effort for some produce, but not other produce is a mystery to me. I mean, I already know tree-grown peaches are organic, and that they're organic whether they're labeled that way or not. Furthermore, I can pretty much recognize a non-organic (e.g. ceramic) peach at a glance--I'd probably break my teeth trying to eat it, and I doubt it would taste very appealing. Even some organic peaches would be inedible, if the organic material is wax or plastic...
I wouldn't be too concerned about bacterial contamination in salt. Most pathogens cannot tolerate high levels of salt, and I don't think most halophiles (organisms that require high salt concentration) are pathogenic. I'm not saying that there is *no* chance of consuming noxious microorganisms in sea salt, just that the probably is extremely low.
The heavy metals are another matter. You can't know the salt has lower than acceptable levels of them unless it is tested.
Never seen Twinkies outside of the USA...
did you make them carry bags and beat the ground with a stick???”
Oh yeah, my mom helped out by keeping some gunny sacks she called our special “sniping bags”. Bet there are some people on FR who have never had the honor of going on a snipe hunt.
I'm just playing along. Maybe I should have used a /sarc tag with the MSDS post.
You were really a cc: on that. I wish that were an explicit thing on FR.
went on one once and did a couple on the new boy scouts first camping trips.
I am sure more the a few Freepers have not had the fun of a snipe hunt :-)
You did seem a bit humorless. :^)
I’ll have to remember “woo” — there’s a lot of it going around. As soon as I get an opportunity, I’m going to point to some wax or plastic fruit, and call it organic.
Oh, I wish. We can't import certain types of agriculture products and this is a big "fat chance" per Uncle Sugar.
Did you guys ever get sick?
I understand that raw milk is super healthy.
Did you guys ever get sick?”
Don’t recall ever being sick but I hated raw milk - for four reasons.
First was because I had to milk one of the cows every morning before I went off to school. Do you know that you can NEVER get rid of the smell of cow on your body?
Second was because it was my job to clean the separator. At the time I could swear that there were at least a thousand parts to one.
Third was because I had to churn the butter - by hand! One of the first songs my mom said I learned was “Come butter, come butter” which I would sing during the entire process.
Finally my dad loved homemade cottage cheese. Took me years to forget just how bad it smelled when it was cooking.
I would certainly love to be back on the farm again. But I would not be milking any cows.
LOL!!!
So I take it that you still smell like a cow?
But in all seriousness, I would love to own a dairy cow. Are there any breeds that are small?
Are there any breeds that are small?
Hopefully I don’t still smell like a cow, although I may have yesterday after working in the yard when the temp was right at 100.
Haven’t a clue as to whether cows come in small, medium or large. When I was small they were all large sized. We had two that were black and white of some kind and an old Guernsey named Molly that gave about 90% cream. Her milk sure made good homemade hand crank vanilla ice cream which we had every Sunday for dinner on top of some kind of homemade pie.
I love fruit loops, lucky charms too. All American cereals.
Delicious. And that’s all I have to say about that.
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