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Yeah, I cook for my family too. It's not really that unusual. More unusual, a little over a decade ago I made my family burgers with meat bought that day from the local grocery store. My husband go very sick. It was confirmed to be E.coli. Nursing a grown man who can't control either ends of his digestive system is not fun. Besides, he nearly died. I'm responsible as I didn't burn the burger (we had to report the case to DHS who confirmed it was the grocery store hamburger). But heck I grew up on meat my dad and uncles slaughtered themselves - we ate burger raw. This is when I started to look for alternatives to the grocery store.

Personal stories aside, do you think food producers should have no government oversight?
So, you're ok with public eduation?




Edited, Apr 21st 2011 6:44pm by Elinda

I tried the link to the article in the original post. It took me to a signup page.

The name of the article is Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom. Here is another link - not sure if it will work different or better or whatever.

I think that food producers already had oversight in Tort & Contract Law.

I'm ok with an educated public. I think public schools should be scrapped or privatized. Barring that, it's another area that the Federal government has no business sticking its nose in.

EDIT: Just an aside, I grind my own beef and eat rare burgers. No E coli for me.

Edited, Apr 21st 2011 12:10pm by MoebiusLord

I think you're full of ****, but that's old news eh.

lilwoc,



No you're not. You just think you're cool for saying so.

You can take it however you like. The fact is that the oversight you and your ilk clamor for is a recent construct. People have relied on farmers/food producers for centuries. Profit was, is, and will be the motivator for quality products.

Your assumption that accommodation could not, or would not, be made highlights your ignorance.


And as to you thinking I'm full of sh:t, I can't imagine why. There's no reason not to grind your own beef. It takes mere minutes to grind out a pound of beef for burgers that tastes better and is healthier than what I would get at the grocery store. There's also no reason not to make your own pasta, even if you don't have a roller. It all goes back to laziness and people's priorities being reflected in their choices.

If it's full, you're being lazy again. It's not going to suck itself, sweetheart.

I'm a good at delegating unpleasant tasks.

I don't think you intentionally draw in these young pompous boys with your overbearing testosterone. Still it's annoying. Stop it.

Well, who knows better than varus? I'm sure your readings on Marx have sharpened your sense of discrimination in this field. Since you decided to pipe up, how does it feel to have a faction of socialists in your town?

Elinda, I'm not showing up to say "this is pointless." I'm trying to figure out the point. If you assert that there is no point, then color me pretentious.

Edit: Varus, what part of Knoxville qualifies as "city," exactly?

Edited, Apr 21st 2011 1:42pm by LeWoVoc

My neighbors who were farmers and due to poor income (farming does not pay) would supplement their "meals" with lots of wild game. Farming is back breaking work and farmers tend to have large families (large free workforce).

Before health insurance, the medical industry was poorly regulated so of course, people who had no formal medical training were practicing medicine (amputation via hack saw ftw)

We're fat not just because of foods we eat (the meals of the past were equally fatty) but because we are less mobile. We aren't pulling plows, riding bikes or walking to the neighbors to share tea.
It doesn't seem to be a new idea either because if you notice paintings fo aristocracy or royalty from the pas, they are FAT - they didn't have MCDonalds, they were inactive.

Come see me play in Market Square some time. I'll play a backwoods country song just for you. I wouldn't exactly call the area a city, though. The presence of black people does not automatically imply a city environment, and just because it's relatively more city-esque than the rest of the area does not make it even minorly comparable to any real metropolis.