"The only test of the utility of Knowledge, is its promoting the happiness of mankind." — Dr. STARK on Diet, p. 90.
If it hurts the child in obvious fashion, how is overfeeding not child abuse? If 30 percent of children are obese and have a six-fold increase in lifetime mortality, then that is clear harm. Since parents today have no idea what food is or how to eat, it may be unreasonable to expect that they can feed a dependent let alone themselves. In this case, a little bit of extreme response may be needed to correct the overall problem of poor food education and poor diet.
Turns out real men do eat meat, they just can't get it up because their prostate is shot. The 'association' of meat and dairy products with increased risk of prostate cancer has long been noted and is now the subject of a British study. When the Dairy Board is squealing about soy milk having 'phytoestrogens' in it, they really trying to distract you from the genuine animal hormone IGF-1 present in meat and milk.
The whole problem with the meat diet is that what you eat is too close to what you are, and your body responds to the food as if it is internal. So you pick up hormone effects and immune responses where none would even be suspected.
A new study by the University of Texas indicates that prion mutations, and cross-species transmission, may be easier and more widespread than ever before. For the first time, rapid-onset spongiform encephalopathy diseases have been created in the laboratory. Claudio Soto, a research scientist, has created totally new strains of wasting diseases.
This raises the specter that any natural reservoir of prion disease - in cattle, sheep, deer, moose, elk and other hoofed ungulates - can serve to infect a wider population in another species. The time is long past to consider that any form of brain wasting disease - not just the feared CJD - but other diseases, such as the current epidemic of dementia, as possible prion infection. Onset of symptoms may take decades, and by that time, the realization that a mad cow (or mad-moose) epidemic is taking place will come as a sudden wave of the utmost human tragedy.
Somehow it all fits. Build a living based on exploiting animals, and after a while you loose all sense of where to draw the line.
Animals can, and must, learn to cope with their environment. Those with higher degrees of learning can persist this knowledge - saving it across time and even generations. That is precisely what humans are doing now, in the most direct fashion, with genetic engineering.
Pigs were once the most common livestock in America. This was because they were part of the household economy, recycling kitchen scraps into ready meat. Now the household economy has been monetized, and cows raised in an industrial setting have taken the market lead.
After what seemed like weeks of dry weather, we finally got a good, soaking rain today. It is such a relief not having to run around like a maniac watering for at least the next few days.
So the President and the House have glommed together a healthcare bill. Now it is up to the Senate on Tuesday to do what with it now? So disappointed it's not over yet. All this political nonsense is making me sick.
The New Jerk dictionary defines antidisintermeditationism (adverb) as taking a stand against removing the middleman and brokers who add value and expertise to the supply chain. While fdirect service delivery is often noted for being cheaper and more "efficient" by supply-side fops, disintermediation is most often a cover for hiding producer weakness and allowing the shifting of sub-standard goods.