From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 13:19:50 MST
> While I agree getting nutrition from one's food is the best way
> to do things, I would not say the fruits and vegetables at the local
> grocery store are so wonderful considering the claim that overfarmed
> soil tends to become depleted of it's nutrients. You could wind up
> not getting the nutrition you thought you were guaranteed with fresh
> food. Any thoughts from the list on this subject?
More total nonsense from the Green idiots. Typical Amercian
supermarket produce is better nutritionally than it has ever been
in the past, and only getting better. Frozen and canned fruits and
vegetables are also excellent, and even more nutritious than fresh
sometimes (though canned products often contain too much sodium).
There are no proven benefits to "Organic" produce, which is just
another scam to lighten the wallets of consumers by feeding them a
line of "natural is good" bullshit.
As Extropians, we should celebrate appropriate and valuable uses
of technology like genetic engineering and chemical pesticides
and fertilizers when they produce good products and don't cause
any real environmental damage; and we should be as quick to condemn
bad uses of technology like the entire dietary supplement industry,
which feeds on fear and ignorance.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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