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Re: but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that? Isaac Send a noteboard - 10/12/2009 07:01:14 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.


And it is really very good brocolli. A bit of sharp cheddar, some whole milk, some onions, a bit of potato - purples ones, rather puny but I had to try them, the moles got most of them until a cat moved in to the area with her kittens, my own cat is very old and only glares at rodents these days, and just a bit of chicken broth, salt and pepper of course. I ate some of it raw, but really I prefer it cooked.

Yep, in spite of the general bad-mouthing of college - which I regularly do to - most profs are pretty good about dispelling the massive fog of nonsense, speaking of hot dogs, that old yarn about earthworms being in hot dogs, I'm always amazed at how many people actually belive that nonsense, although considering what is in hot dogs, maybe earthworms wouldn't be to bad...
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