RE: Seeds of Conflict
April 25, 2013 at 10:28 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2013 at 10:31 pm by A_Nony_Mouse.)
(April 25, 2013 at 9:56 pm)Dragonetti Wrote: I think we subsidize grain and corn too much! Fruits and vegetables are expensive for the average consumer. We need to make healthier food accessible to all consumers.
Dawud - The article is written by EarthTalk writers, and not Scientific America.
I agree I have an odd point of view but I do not see a value of fruits and vegetables beyond what can be done with their taste. And as a pretty fair amateur chef over some 40 years I have yet to find a problem.
IF there is anything essential from fruits and vegetables there are pills for it. Fruits per se? So what? But orange duck, be it Chinese or French is fantastic. NOT to claim I have perfected those dishes. It is only an issue of price that makes use of pasta in place of all meat. We can survive on something like 90% meat but we do not want to or cannot afford it.
I don't really want to raise a pissing contest over this. I do want to point out the essential of onions for breakfast for the pyramid workers is rather different from any modern conception of a meal to eat before going to work.* We ATE veggies for very good reasons. Today we have pills for almost everything we get from veggies except for the infinite variations of taste that make meat taste so much better.
I do not like plain carrots. My son does not like them plain. Most of my women and their children did not. Add a cream sauce or cheese sauce and they are eaten.
Potatoes? Butter or sour cream?
* Skin and cut an onion in half along its "equator." Liberally coat the cut side with olive oil, butter, cream or anything similar. Bake until soft. Add oil as it expands. Add a bit more oil. Enjoy!
(April 25, 2013 at 9:58 pm)Dawud Wrote: You miss the point Nony,
Mass farming reduces quality in favour of quantity - Im not saying that this is bad....
I'm just suggesting that this desire should inspire some skepticism if new developments and that blind acceptance of them could be just as dangerous as blind rejection
It is obviously not bad in a chronically obese population. In theory it is an issue. In fact it is not.
