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Bart Simpson as chief safety technologist.
Wall Street Journal
REVIEW & OUTLOOK JUNE 13, 2011
Europe's Organic Food Scare
Bart Simpson as chief safety technologist.
WSJ Europe editorial writer Anne Jolis explains an E. coli outbreak
and the dangers in allegedly healthy foods.
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So here we go again: agitation for more money and regulation,
though agricultural authorities still don't know where the German
farm erred.
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These facts haven't discouraged the even more effective media
campaigns of a few pressure groups that never met a food
technology they didn't fear. The Organic Consumers Association—
which has used Blinky's image in separate anti-"Frankenfood"
publications—warns of "irradiation-induced vitamin deficiencies,
the inactivity of enzymes in the food, DNA damage, and toxic
radiolytic products in the food." A March 2011 article in the
"Activist Post" claims that "mutated" irradiated food "is the cause
for many forms of cancer and genetic modification."
Complete text —
http://tinyurl.com/5ru83c9
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The point of this thread is, what? To point out someone has the same name as a cartoon?
All that glitters isn't gold.
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Dont have a cow MAN!
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Not to impose my conclusion upon the first post, but this is a perfect example of stupidity ruling the world.
If all in charge would have the absolute basic understanding of how electromagnetic particles/waves behave, alot of lives can be saved, both from
virulent free food, and less food spoiling and going to waste.
E.g. are the "organic" people aware that almost every sterile piece of equipment/supplies are nuked to hell with either gamma or beta radiation (or
etylene oxide, a carcinogen ), yet they do not refuse treatment..., also all the spices in the world is radiated because of human feces E.coli
contaminants....
What do they belive happens in our stomachs, alot of new molecules form, many not healty at all, but rapidly reacted and rendered harmless, though
this happens according to defined chemical parameters, somethimes e.g. by a malformed enzyme, the breakdown is other than usual and you got a new
molecule, and bam!!, it may actually be something not healthy.
Think alot of those "organic" people do not, even at the rudimentary basic levels, understand our world.
Sorry for the rant but get really pissed off by people against sterilization by radiation...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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ROFL!
Yes the irony of it all... Tree Hugging/Socialists/EcoNuts
with their Don't bother me with the science - my mind is made up
mindset are bitten in the ass by their Holy Grail — Organic Foods.
djh
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"Problem is, "Thus shall not kill
whales" ranks among the top
commandments in the cannon
of political correctness. So when
the Makan Indian Nation speared
a whale off America's coast on
Monday, the environmentalists
practically choked on their granola
bars. But pity the animal lovers, for
this is no clear cut call. To the
average activist, interfering in
native American cultures is almost
as taboo as chopping down redwood
trees.
Wall Street Journal 20V99
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The answer is clear. Identify the genetic marker for control freaks. Identify the genetic marker for selective dedicated cannibalism. Gene splice
and introduce an engineered hybrid having dominant tendencies .....and eventually over time the problem population will be reduced to one survivor who
will then eat itself.
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Quote: Originally posted by Rosco Bodine  | | The answer is clear. Identify the genetic marker for control freaks. Identify the genetic marker for selective dedicated cannibalism. Gene splice
and introduce an engineered hybrid having dominant tendencies .....and eventually over time the problem population will be reduced to one survivor who
will then eat itself. |
10xii88
The National Science Foundation has once again refused to fund my trollop
cloning experiments. While this is only a temporary set back, it has lead to
the current strange problem.
Do to limited exchequer, I have had to obtain my cell lines from a source of dubi-
ous repute. The genetic material was represented as having come from fifteen
year old nymphomaniacs* and indeed this has proven to be true. However, un-
stated was that the cell line was contaminated with a gene for cannibalism!
I now find myself with a group of -- redheaded, green-eyed, death-mute, sex-
starved, can suck-tennis-balls-though-a-garden-hose, cannibal-cock-suckers!!
I fear that even my Bio-level 4 containment facility will not be secure enough to
prevent an escape.
Although flawed, they are phenotypicaly human, and therefore not easily dis-
posed of. Fortunately of late an Italian gentlemen has offered to take them off
my hands. It would seem he is having great difficulty in obtaining new members
for his castrato quire. And therefore is planning on releasing them upon some
unsuspecting populous!
If you could suggest alternative sources of finance, and/or an appropriate voca-
tion for my ----, I would appreciate it.
* Dr. (The only unnatural sex act is the one you cannot perform.)
Kinsey, "A nymphomaniac is someone who has more sex than you
do."
Pomeroy, Wardell B. Dr. Kinsey and the institute for sex research. Page 316.
Harper & Roe. 1972.
[Edited on 16-6-2011 by The WiZard is In]
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| Quote: Originally posted by Rosco Bodine | | The answer is clear. Identify the genetic marker for control freaks. Identify the genetic marker for selective dedicated cannibalism. Gene splice
and introduce an engineered hybrid having dominant tendencies .....and eventually over time the problem population will be reduced to one survivor who
will then eat itself. |
Perhaps the Tree hugging/Socialist/EcoNuts will implode —
All societies believe nonsense. It spreads irresistibly through
conformity, and changes slowly through fashion. As in cell
replication, any given society sooner or later hits on a chunk of
lethal nonsense, and collapses. In a world of many independent
societies, this does not matter. But once communications
technology has formed a single global society, the time must come
when everyone believes the same lethal nonsense simultaneously.
Civilization then collapses globally, leaving no seed from which it
could raise again.
DAEDALUS
[David Jones]
Nature 361:408
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| Quote: |
If all in charge would have the absolute basic understanding of how electromagnetic particles/waves behave |
Actually, in a democracy, the people in charge may understand and yet act in a manner quite at odds with that understanding in order to retain office.
| Quote: | | alot of lives can be saved, both from virulent free food, and less food spoiling and going to waste. |
Foodborne illness isn't a huge killer in the USA, nor is starvation.
| Quote: | | E.g. are the "organic" people aware that almost every sterile piece of equipment/supplies are nuked to hell with either gamma or beta radiation (or
etylene oxide, a carcinogen ), yet they do not refuse treatment..., |
Surgical/medical equipment, which is typically made of steel and plastic and is not digested/metabolized, should pose no risk. Complex organic
compounds which we digest could be an entirely different matter.
| Quote: | What do they belive happens in our stomachs, alot of new molecules form, many not healty at all, but rapidly reacted and rendered harmless, though
this happens according to defined chemical parameters, somethimes e.g. by a malformed enzyme, the breakdown is other than usual and you got a new
molecule, and bam!!, it may actually be something not healthy.
Think alot of those "organic" people do not, even at the rudimentary basic levels, understand our world. |
It's always nice when you can look at the stupidest of the people who disagree with you and regard them as typical of the opposition. A nice way to
boost your own ego. In the case of a process as complex as digestion or metabolism generally, I would prefer to look at actual epidemiology or at
least rat studies in assessing the risks, rather than handwaving arguments about the nature and handling of the new molecules that might or might not
be created by radiation. And, wonder of wonders: irradiation doesn't seem to be entirely innocuous: see:
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Research_(PDF).PDF
| Quote: | | Sorry for the rant but get really pissed off by people against sterilization by radiation... |
I'm all in favor of various food treatments (including radiation), so long as there is transparency and labeling so that people are free to make such
choices as they feel are best. Among other things, such a regime allows for longer term studies of the effects of such things using voluntarily
self-selected groups of people. Or to put it another way: you eat the radiated food, I'll avoid it, and we'll see how it comes out. Of course, the
thing is that on the political front, it seems that (corporate) proponents of irradiated food are not content merely with allowing it to be created
and sold. They would prefer that it not be possible for consumers to know whether any given item has been irradiated. While this fits in nicely with
your strawman of the enviro-wacko who is too stupid to even know what's good for him, it seems rather obnoxious to me.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bbartlog |
I'm all in favor of various food treatments (including radiation), so long as there is transparency and labeling so that people are free to make such
choices as they feel are best. Among other things, such a regime allows for longer term studies of the effects of such things using voluntarily
self-selected groups of people. Or to put it another way: you eat the radiated food, I'll avoid it, and we'll see how it comes out. Of course, the
thing is that on the political front, it seems that (corporate) proponents of irradiated food are not content merely with allowing it to be created
and sold. They would prefer that it not be possible for consumers to know whether any given item has been irradiated. While this fits in nicely with
your strawman of the enviro-wacko who is too stupid to even know what's good for him, it seems rather obnoxious to me. |
This is going to be hard sell if labeled....!
Shit Burgers
http://tinyurl.com/3lrcmbu
Byda the technical term for ---- eating is Coprophagy.
Rabbits eat their own. Actually they produce two kinds one
of which they eat.
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rabbits, guinea pigs and a host of other small rodentia. that's fine for them but this whole concept is a little too "two girls one cup" for me. maybe
they can label it "cruelty free" and feed it to the vegans and peta wackos.
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Oh no ! .....it's Soylent Brown 
Life is like a shit sandwich,
the more bread you got .....
the less shit you have to eat.
Ringo Starr
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3% fat content. That would make a pretty shitty burger, all right. Seems like you'd be better off recycling the material the old fashioned way, by
putting it in the earth to help the plants grow. I suppose however that in Japan (what with food imports and small land area) they may actually have
more shit than they can effectively use for fertilizer.
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