but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that?
LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 10/12/2009 06:28:44 PM
Obviously our professors have agendas!! We're being fed propaganda under the guise of education!!
That's sarcastic, btw, but I regularly have people tell me that when I talk about things I've learned in classes and related readings.
I like your comment about nitrates I took a Meat Science course and our professor talked mostly about the biology of meat and only a bit about the industry (mostly how it affected the meat) and gave a very neutral presentation of it. When he knew he was about to express an opinion, he said so. Anyway, he mentioned nitrates when we were talking about hot dogs and such sausages.
He was exaggerating a bit, but he pretty much said that someone would die of an exploded stomach before they could possibly eat enough hot dogs in a short enough time to absorb enough nitrates to cause a negative effect.
Point being, pretty much anything in the properly configured dose and composition will cause cancer, death, heart attack, whatever. The likelihood that exact chemical makeup is in our food?
I think I'll just buy my canned tomatoes, kthxbai.
I'd totally come steal your broccoli if I could. I wish I lived somewhere where I could grow some noms, but I don't think my landlord would appreciate it.
That's sarcastic, btw, but I regularly have people tell me that when I talk about things I've learned in classes and related readings.
I like your comment about nitrates I took a Meat Science course and our professor talked mostly about the biology of meat and only a bit about the industry (mostly how it affected the meat) and gave a very neutral presentation of it. When he knew he was about to express an opinion, he said so. Anyway, he mentioned nitrates when we were talking about hot dogs and such sausages.
He was exaggerating a bit, but he pretty much said that someone would die of an exploded stomach before they could possibly eat enough hot dogs in a short enough time to absorb enough nitrates to cause a negative effect.
Point being, pretty much anything in the properly configured dose and composition will cause cancer, death, heart attack, whatever. The likelihood that exact chemical makeup is in our food?
I think I'll just buy my canned tomatoes, kthxbai.
I'd totally come steal your broccoli if I could. I wish I lived somewhere where I could grow some noms, but I don't think my landlord would appreciate it.
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but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that?
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Re: but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that?
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