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Mr Dog posted:yea that's all well and good but the primary force behind GM food is Monsanto. and i mean we like to complain about Uber and whatever itt as being bad people but Monsanto is just a whole other league of capital-E Evil are you going to post that fake story about them suing a guy because of cross pollination
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Mr Dog posted:yea that's all well and good but the primary force behind GM food is Monsanto. and i mean we like to complain about Uber and whatever itt as being bad people but Monsanto is just a whole other league of capital-E Evil Monsanto is only as evil as every other corporation in America, including commercial organic farms.
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a new menace seems to have arisen from this normally most harmless of crops: a strain of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) hunter-killer corn that walks between the rows of its docile brethren, ambushing and slaughtering any non-Monsanto-branded humans that it finds. Farmer Gulph, a local farmer, was one of the first to note the danger. “We had three young men go a’ missin’ one summer. Back in, oh… Oh-ten I think,” Gulph recalled, rocking on his hand-made chair on his porch, a corn-cob pipe puffing away and a jug with three ‘X’s sitting beside him. As he told the story he whittled a toy train with a knife pulled from his denim overalls. “They turned up later, ayup. But they turned up dead. Dead’s how theya turned up. Throats cut and little cornstalks growin’ outta ’em. Shame that. Corn didn’ta taste right, neither.”
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Triglav posted:please dont post child porn. thats an unripe watermelon. it's a baby watermelon, you sick gently caress unripe watermleons with their mature, black seeds
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qirex posted:why would you live anywhere else? why would you want to live in florida or iowa?
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Nintendo Kid posted:why would you want to live in florida or iowa? I don't eat a lot of oranges or soy, I'll be fine it is kind of funny though we get people at farmer's markets from like fresno and visalia and it's like this isn't really "local" dudes but dumb rich people don't care
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organics: white people worries.
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will donald tour in california?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:obama release the golden rice drat that is rad as hell
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BONGHITZ posted:will donald tour in california? the only reason any presidential candidate comes to CA is to raise money
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computer parts posted:the thing a lot of people don't get is that transport is very very cheap, both economically and ecologically The point is not that it is inexpensive but that some food items should be (comparatively) expensive, the things generally overlooked but these sorts of evaluations is that your paying poo poo all to your Chilean asparagus farmer and overlooking the long term cost to the environment of burning all that jet fuel to get those shoots halfway around the world overnight. Ofc this is a rich first world problem, but thats not to say their isn't a valid point hidden behind the crap that comes with these sorts of arguments.
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vodkat posted:The point is not that it is inexpensive but that some food items should be (comparatively) expensive, the things generally overlooked but these sorts of evaluations is that your paying poo poo all to your Chilean asparagus farmer and overlooking the long term cost to the environment of burning all that jet fuel to get those shoots halfway around the world overnight. Ofc this is a rich first world problem, but thats not to say their isn't a valid point hidden behind the crap that comes with these sorts of arguments. lol who ships stuff on airplanes yeah jet fuel is expensive but stacking containers on a panamax is cheaper than any other form of transport ever devised by man
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computer parts posted:lol who ships stuff on airplanes yeah but fresh blueberries don't last 2 weeks no matter what you do to them
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qirex posted:yeah but fresh blueberries don't last 2 weeks no matter what you do to them fresh blueberries also don't need to travel 2 weeks unless you're in africa/south america 
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qirex posted:yeah but fresh blueberries don't last 2 weeks no matter what you do to them it doesn't take 2 weeks to take a boat from mexico
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computer parts posted:it doesn't take 2 weeks to take a boat from mexico in winter they come from chile and it astounds me that that's somehow profitable even at $5/carton they also taste awful and aren't worth it but that's separate e: well I'll be damned I guess they ship them in nitrogen or something? quote:Blueberries, unique among berries, have the ability of being picked ripe and put to sleep for weeks in controlled atmosphere, making them the only berries that can come into the U.S. by boat. qirex fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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Yea if your eating fresh blueberries outside of summer then they are probably being imported from south america. The point is maybe peoples in Wisconsin absolutely demand and need to eat fresh blueberries in February is just a bit hosed up? Edit: well i guess I should change it to strawberries or flowers or something, the point is that not every foodstuff that people take for granted is actually transported across the world because it is the easiest or most efficient way to do things.
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just grow seasonal poo poo in nuclear powered greenhouses, job done
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vodkat posted:Yea if your eating fresh blueberries outside of summer then they are probably being imported from south america. The point is maybe peoples in Wisconsin absolutely demand and need to eat fresh blueberries in February is just a bit hosed up? not really since the eliminating the demand would put south american farmers out of business. Forums Terrorist posted:just grow seasonal poo poo in nuclear powered greenhouses, job done or just ship in nuclear powered vessels
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Since we're on food-chat, here is an article about how 1,4 billion chinese want to eat pork all the time, pretty interesting' http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636507-chinas-insatiable-appetite-pork-symbol-countrys-rise-it-also
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Forums Terrorist posted:just grow seasonal poo poo in nuclear powered greenhouses, job done This actually works really well. The best tomatoes in my local supermarket are from local greenhouses that run year round on waste heat from powerplants, but this is the exception rather than the rule.
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Shaggar posted:not really since the eliminating the demand would put south american farmers out of business. Won't someone think of these poor arms manufactures that might lose their jobs? Just because someone is employed doesn't mean that their work is good, necessary or sustainable, as much as that fact might suck if you are an Argentinian blueberry farmer. Although I'm sure they will lose it all soon anyway when blueberries super fruit fad status is forgotten or they are undercut supermarket by competition trying to find some even poorer farmers to pull the rug out from under their feet.
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Syncopated posted:Since we're on food-chat, here is an article about how 1,4 billion chinese want to eat pork all the time, pretty interesting' i like that this article begins w/ a description about jacking off a piggie
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vodkat posted:Won't someone think of these poor arms manufactures that might lose their jobs? Just because someone is employed doesn't mean that their work is good, necessary or sustainable, as much as that fact might suck if you are an Argentinian blueberry farmer. Although I'm sure they will lose it all soon anyway when blueberries super fruit fad status is forgotten or they are undercut supermarket by competition trying to find some even poorer farmers to pull the rug out from under their feet. R. Buckminster Fuller posted:We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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yeah that would be rad. let everyone else work and support me loving around in academia forever.
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white people have decided that your industry can't exist anymore sorry
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Luigi Thirty posted:white people have decided that your industry can't exist anymore sorry more like the unreasonable demands of white people brought your questionable industry into being and your livelihood is now dependent upon their whims
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its not questionable at all.
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Luigi Thirty posted:white people have decided that your industry can't exist anymore sorry Now I'm confused, are the white people who pay extra for local organic worse than the white people who support Chilean farmers? Are they the same people? What is even the point anymore other than that white people are terrible?
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if you're not a card carrying member of the voluntary human extinction movement i don't want to hear about your ideas about how to save the world lol
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Shaggar posted:its not questionable at all. yeah you're right, your company and industry as a whole should unquestionably not exist
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white money going to white people is bad but white money going to brown people is also bad but for other reasons if we just abolished money and moved to full communism, we wouldn't have this problem
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Chill Callahan posted:falafel is chill making some tomorrow night what are some good side dishes for falafel shawarma things
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Luigi Thirty posted:if we just abolished money and moved to full communism, we wouldn't have this problem practical solutions to real problems 
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:making some tomorrow night coleslaw is good
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Luigi Thirty posted:
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computer parts posted:coleslaw is good that doesn't sound right
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