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02/27/08

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Design consultant for social justice causes

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  response to  Taylor Clark and Greg Miller's post Where’s the Beef?

  processed food is not healthy

  This article would have been relavant 10 years ago. Today, people have quickly realized the importance of replacing processed food with a healthy variety of locally grown and seasonally appropriate food.

  While I would advocate a move away from the meat-centric diet of an average eater in the US, it's a mistake to think that fake meat is a healthy alternative for people or for the environment. The US diet is clogged with processed food. The manufacturing process adds to pollution and reduces nutritional value.

  Our bodies are widely varied and unique. It's naive to believe that we can replicate nature's bounty with soy and a factory posing as a country kitchen. Some people need more protein, others need more dark and leafy greens. Nobody needs a homogeneous diet of soy, soy, and more soy. It's a healthy food in moderation, but like this it's no better than corn syrup. In high quantities, it raises a person's estrogen to unhealthy levels. It's a terrible idea to serve it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  Almost 100 years ago, we began bleaching our bread to tamper with appearances. This carcinogenic chemical process is banned in Europe and Canada. In the US, we simply mandate that companies label the food and re-inject the chemical equivalent of natural vitamins that get stripped out. We foolishly believing it will be metabolized just the same. As a result of this and other food processing, we're a nation of fat people with rampant cancer. 100 years from now, we will realize that bastardizing soy led the way to other diseases.

  Eaters everywhere: chuck the boxes and bags and buy your food fresh. Eat your fruits, veggies, and if your body needs it, meat from local farms free from GMO, antibiotics, and cruel conditions.

  Editors: are you there? This article reiterates stale ideas. It's a commercial for an industry at the expense of our health.

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  Commented on March 18, 2008 by - thecoup

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  response to  Graeme Wood's post Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death-Row Inmates

  more conversation

  I appreciate your look at the shallow reasons why we might resist death-by-organ-donation and challenge us to consider a more humane execution and a better use of wasted organs.

  However, I would have appreciated some acknowledgment that the US is alone in the western world to continue this archaic practice. And you could have acknowledged the tireless work of many to save the many innocent people who receive unjust execution.

  We aren't far from ending capital punishment. I think it's best to invest our energy into that cause.

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  Commented on February 27, 2008 by - thecoup