It's about each individual. Not about banning foods or anything. Just "food for thought."
What you essentially posted was a propaganda piece, I think on reading this surely some will hesitate to buy tomatoes in a can or corn-fed beef, or apples - I know it wasn't your intent, but you're assisting fear-mongering. It isn't about the indiviuadal, it's about the facts, and the fact is that many of these simply don't hold up under inspection and people shouldn't be buying more expensive food for fear of essentially being poisoned. There are some concerns on these matters, some of them at least, but these products represent no significant danger, and to say otherwise is, well, not appropriate. People should make up their own minds, but not under a pall of fear.
I suppose that might be our difference there: I'm slightly flexible regarding propaganda pieces if they are erring on the side of healthiness. Typically I'd agree with you, and probably even have posted the same type of response to me that you did. The only one of the above that truly bothers me is the farmed fish, and I should have said so.
It may be wrong-headed of me, but through a various combination of factors (extensive reading, AG degree, etc), I am fairly well appalled at the food that people eat w/o any thought. We trust that it's good for us, but most of us don't even read the labels, let alone understand what we're reading. I'm willing to let you call me out about the bias above, but certain things are true (and I know them to be true from university experience), like the pesticides on the apples and potatoes, etc. Maybe this is the thing about which I am a zealot. I do know that I'm a food snob. Especially cheese. Mmm, cheeeeeeese.
/food: The 7 foods experts won't eat
10/12/2009 01:04:04 AM
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Our potatoes have been sprouting since, well... ever. And I don't think we buy them organic. *NM*
10/12/2009 01:11:45 AM
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Our eyes grow and green up a little, but that's minor compared to when you buy organic.
10/12/2009 02:06:37 AM
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I really have to challenge many of these
10/12/2009 03:36:05 AM
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And that is fine. Read the opening paragraph. It's not a scientific study.
10/12/2009 02:29:53 PM
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Nevertheless...
10/12/2009 03:14:19 PM
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Omg, you are such a party-pooper!
10/12/2009 05:26:18 PM
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LOL, I actually am not the bane of all new ideas
10/12/2009 06:19:06 PM
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but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that?
10/12/2009 06:28:44 PM
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Re: but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that?
10/12/2009 07:01:14 PM
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omigod cheese didn't you read that bit about ARTIFICIAL HORMONES?!?!?!
10/12/2009 06:22:11 PM
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You wouldn't believe the dangers involved in cheese
10/12/2009 07:08:48 PM
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I'm pretty sure I just took a pill with about 500 million bacteria in it. Is that bad for me too?
10/12/2009 07:18:29 PM
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dihydrogen monoxide should not be ignored!!
10/12/2009 07:20:59 PM
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T'is my civic duty
10/12/2009 07:30:42 PM
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Health aside, farmed Salmon just tastes a bit horrible.
10/12/2009 11:57:34 AM
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I'm always a bit dubious on food health scare stories
10/12/2009 12:34:29 PM
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Hm. I actually refuse to eat non-farmed marine fish of any kind.
10/12/2009 01:24:26 PM
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Rod caught tuna
10/12/2009 05:37:42 PM
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There aren't enough tuna left.
10/12/2009 06:25:19 PM
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If you catch them with rods, I suspect it is sustainable.
10/12/2009 08:17:49 PM
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who the hell wants to fish in the middle of the ocean??
10/12/2009 08:29:43 PM
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