From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 14:50:54 MST
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> 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
I would disagree, industrially produced food tends to have lower culinary
qualities. Apart from ethical reasons as delineated in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transhumantech/message/13277> nonindustrial
food simply tastes better. It's arguably healthier, too, but the taste
issue just settles it for me.
> vegetables are also excellent, and even more nutritious than fresh
> sometimes (though canned products often contain too much sodium).
You can cook organic stuff, too.
> 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.
You're being waaay too harsh here.
> 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
Actually, I can give you a Science paper which demonstrates that Swiss
hardcore biologisch-dynamisch is really good for sustainability, soil
specifically.
> technology like the entire dietary supplement industry, which feeds on
> fear and ignorance.
Yeah, but I put that under recreational chemical use. Some of that shit
kicks ass...
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