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"Beach Runner" > wrote in message
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> The amazing thing is you see how American's eat, and it's not
> real food. It's all this highly processed food, made with
> increasingly
> genetically engineered products, filled with Chemicals.

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Yes, and just imagine, it's all vegan, eh killer? Well, as long
as you don't count all the deaths that it takes to make it, and
as long as all you're counting is bodies on a plate. Nice spew
though for the encouragement to eat more meat rather than the
vegan trash that fills the markets, eh?



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> Clearly, in spite of incredible medical advances, cancers and
> heart disease run rampant. Our increased longevity is due to
> toilets, dental care, antibiotics and drugs. We can keep
> unhealthy people alive much longer.
>
> Fresh, local or best home grown food is the best alternative,
> but what has become America's largest crop? Grass. And the
> grass consumes a huge quantity of limited ground water and we
> pump tons of chemicals and toxic chemicals to make gold course
> like lawns. To get a picture, go to Wallmarts and see the
> pallets of grass growing toxins and think about the huge
> multinational effect.
>
> The insects will become increasingly resistant to the
> chemicals, and weeds resistant to them as well.
>
> Why is corn in almost everything? There were farm subsidies at
> one time to keep the market price profitable for small farmers.
> Now huge corporations get those subsidies, and grow huge
> amounts of corn and put it into everything. See corn syrup and
> corn starch in most products. I know people allergic to corn
> and it creates a nightmare. Not to mention, what does it
> contribute to health.
>
> Health, except for a small market doesn't drive food, the most
> important medicine. Even most of the vegetarian prepared foods
> are full of salt and fat. Don't think buying Tuffitis, Amys,
> or Linda McCartney's products are healthy.
>
> Genetically engineered products will and do escape the confines
> of their plantings, and can become super weeds.
>
> We also see the production of seeds and food go into fewer and
> fewer hands.
>
>
> Usual Suspects, does make a very valid point that the
> collateral damage of growing produce using modern methods is
> heavy. But what concerns me more is that it becomes so heavily
> processed foods. Of course much healthier gardening is
> possible and should be encouraged.
>
> A great book is Square Foot Gardening on how to use small
> spaces to grow large amounts of produce using non toxic
> methods.
>
> We all know the meat manufacturing industry consumes vast
> quantities of water, produces tremendous pollution, and
> produces very unhealthy foods.
> It does profit a few very rich people, especially as the
> multi-national food producers consolidate their grip, with
> tremendous influence on politics. And of course, if you care
> as I do about vast amounts of suffering, food factories are
> hell holes for the lives of animals.
> It is also, heavily dependent on petroleum products.
> We need real change. Being a vegan does make a point and does
> reduce our impact on the world and is a start. But only a
> start in the big picture.
>
> Overpopulation is a root cause of world problems, yet leaders
> ban birth control. We can't stuff more people on the planet
> without the quality of life and little bit of habitat left to
> disappear. The Chinese are using draconian methods of
> population control, but I wonder if they have much choice.
> What would have happened if they kept having 10 kids in
> families?
>
> Poor long term planning is course coming back to haunt us. Our
> road system doesn't accommodate bicycles and urban sprawl is
> dependent on oil.
> Adding a foot on the side of a road for safe bicycle use would
> allow people like myself to use a bicycle for much utility use
> where it is too dangerous.
>
>
> We should be making a Manhattan Project to make solar, wind,
> and geothermal viable to sustain our energy. We keep making
> houses that require extensive amounts of energy. Our
> refrigerators and hot water heaters give off heat, which we
> than air condition. The entire system needs to be designed to
> use the heat of one appliance for the next.
>
> Our educational system is antiquated, with the latest emphasis
> being on testing. The sad fact is children go to school and
> are bored because the teaching is horrendous. So much busy
> work. Schools can be made exciting and interesting. Music and
> art stimulate young brains, yet are cut out of the budgets.
> For example, MRIs show that students trained in music grow
> structures in their brains that assist in all abstract
> thinking. Schools need not be boring.
>
> But back to real food. How much real food to people eat? Most
> people consume mostly coffee, sugar, highly processed wheat
> products, and meat manufactured under horrendous conditions.
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