Posted on June 6, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
Not pissed off enough over how big business has taken over the means of production and distribution of food? Would you like (or do you need) the validation of your belief that the people who have taken charge of feeding the world are more interested in undermining your enslavement than they are in your [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
Embedded video from CNN Video
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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Posted on April 7, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
It may be only children and pedants who believe that once a word is coded into more than one dictionary its meaning becomes fixed and immutable. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Consider the “f-word” which can mean virtually anything depending upon the context in which it is used. The word “like” is equally [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
“Last week, protesters from PETA showed up at a Hempstead [Long Island, New York]elementary school, unannounced and uninvited, to try to convince youngsters leaving at day’s end that circuses mistreat their animals. The protesters handed out coloring books with stickers that read, ‘Circuses are no fun for animals.’”
Newsday
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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Posted on March 4, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
What do bread bakers who work from starter, students who pay other people to take tests for them and professional athletes have in common?
Well, from my poll results (look left) it appears that most of them are not above doping their path to success. Of the 22 bakers who respond positively to the statement “I [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
What do bread bakers who work from starter, students who pay other people to take tests for them and professional athletes have in common?
Well, from my poll results (look left) it appears that most of them are not above doping their path to success. Of the 22 bakers who respond positively to the statement “I [...]
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Posted on January 29, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
Wow, we studied this case almost to ad nauseam when I was pursing a BS in Environmental Science between 1976-80.
General Electric was accused of dumping large amounts of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals into the food chain. It was alleged that one of the conglomerate’s subsidiary businesses dumped an estimated 1.3 million [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
This is cool
“Higher heifer milk yields (≥ 200 liters) were found in herds where the stock manager thought it important to know every individual animal, although this was only a trend (p = 0.14). On farms where cows were called by name, milk yield was 258 liters higher than on farms where this was not [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
And he claims to be proud of the results of his proclivity to gluttony. (I don’t believe him, being sick is nothing less than bull dung.)
Perhaps one of you will be able to explain why someone who breathes the same air as we do would eat so much, so often, that he contracts gout. In [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by bobdelgrosso
And he claims to be proud of the results of his proclivity to gluttony. (I don’t believe him, being sick is nothing less than bull dung.)
Perhaps one of you will be able to explain why someone who breathes the same air as we do would eat so much, so often, that he contracts gout. In [...]
Filed under: Ethics, eating | 6 Comments »