ilikekicks Posted January 27, 2013 Posted January 27, 2013 A lot of what most people eat is of whats known as the ' Commercial food industry '. Genetically modified produce/grains, Modified or enhanced poultry and beef. Opinions on such? I'll start by saying one leg of my family owns farmland and produces a great deal of crops. I happen to partake of the fruits of their labors and grab quite a bit of their grown veggies, potatoes and corn. I also buy a hog and a heffer every year that are non anti-biotic given. I try and stay away from whats called ' super markets ' and Walmarts and only go there for ' basics ' or the minimal of things that I can. REPEATEDLY ARGUMENTATIVE, INSULTING AND RUDE. BANNED FOR LIFE.
Shafted Posted January 27, 2013 Posted January 27, 2013 Ever wondered where that lethal chemical weedkiller "Round-up" came from. It's a chemical synthesized in GMO BT corn, the same corn we eat. The corn that kills the European corn borer if they attempt to eat it. If they won't eat it, what make people think we can. The real danger is that corn is an extreme out-breeder. The pollen travels for many miles, genetically contaminating non-GMO crops. The only way to remove this dangerous genetics experiment is to hunt down and destroy every corn stalk on the planet. And not grow corn at all for at least a couple of years. Corn is one of the worst possible crops you could use for such genetic experiments. It's just too damn easy for it to get out of control. The morons that created this abomination are either massively stupid or they are trying to kill us. Corn its a type of grass, and there are other grasses compatible with corn. The bottom line is that we can't undo what we have done. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
Bubba136 Posted January 27, 2013 Posted January 27, 2013 As if we didn't have enough to worry about. Being mentally comfortable in your own mind is the key to wearing heels in public.
meganiwish Posted January 28, 2013 Posted January 28, 2013 Yes, like corn, rape grown for oil is a highly promiscuous plant, like all brassicas. Did you know that the swede is an accidental cross between a turnip and some other cabbagy thing? Still, bashed neeps are wonderful with haggis (neeps = swede). I try not to use the supermarkets, but there's nowhere else I can go to buy cleaning products etc. They sell fish in the supermarket, but it's all come from Scotland or somewhere, and we have boats here and you can buy it almost straight out of the sea. But people don't. Of course you can only buy what was caught last night, and the supermarket has all the most popular fish. You can pay £4.50/lb for plaice in the supermarket, or you can pay 60p/lb for flounder on the beach (if you're lucky enough to live where I do). But 'commercial food' is in the end about food prices, and we all know where that's going to hit, don't we? Food became a commodity, and no-one in the developed world is going to starve.
Shafted Posted January 28, 2013 Posted January 28, 2013 As if we didn't have enough to worry about. Tell me about it Bubba. Sometimes we are too smart for our own good. I grow corn myself and I am also a seed saver. I'm thinking about abandoning corn as a food source, mainly because if it becomes contaminated with GMO genetics, each successive generation will become more toxic. And we are just beginning to discover this fact. Whenever we genetically alter plants for a specific trait we wind up creating something that we didn't intend. Why? because we have to understand the entire coding of the plant's DNA, before we even attempt such an experiment, and we don't. It's Frankenstein's monster in plant form and it has been set loose on the world. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
ilikekicks Posted January 28, 2013 Author Posted January 28, 2013 Seed Saver.. The only real seeds untampered with are in Iceland ( I believe ) , stored away. I understand theres a certain level of contamination in what my family grows, but its better then what is on the market. I just refuse to buy produce from the markets. I freeze-dry and preserve stuff after the harvests happen. This keeps me going year round. REPEATEDLY ARGUMENTATIVE, INSULTING AND RUDE. BANNED FOR LIFE.
Bubba136 Posted January 29, 2013 Posted January 29, 2013 There was some grains of wheat that were recently found after several thousand years, in a newly opened tomb in Egypt, that germinated. I guess you could say with confidence these seeds weren't hybread. Being mentally comfortable in your own mind is the key to wearing heels in public.
Amanda Posted January 30, 2013 Posted January 30, 2013 I noticed something while shopping here in Helsinki today. It seems that all foodstuffs here which are deemed to be healthy have a picture of a ships steering wheel or a sailor on the packet. I also noticed in America that brands of food deemed wholesome have a picture of a barn on the packet. In England it's a cottage that serves to illustrate wholesomness. As always, I can be a bit skeptical when it comes to branding, therefore, generally I try not to buy anything that's been made in a big smokey factory.
meganiwish Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 I noticed something while shopping here in Helsinki today. It seems that all foodstuffs here which are deemed to be healthy have a picture of a ships steering wheel or a sailor on the packet. I also noticed in America that brands of food deemed wholesome have a picture of a barn on the packet. In England it's a cottage that serves to illustrate wholesomness. As always, I can be a bit skeptical when it comes to branding, therefore, generally I try not to buy anything that's been made in a big smokey factory. It's a fascinating insight into national character. If I remember rightly, the Australian beer Castlemaine's logo used to include a very honest picture of a factory, complete with smoke coming out of the chimneys. Perhaps someone can confirm this, or show me up for the deranged haridan I am.
Amanda Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 I believe it does have a factory feature logo, though I shouldn't think the Aussies would give a xxxx whats in their beer.
Shafted Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 I believe it does have a factory feature logo, though I shouldn't think the Aussies would give a xxxx whats in their beer. That's rather amusing Amanda, as the Aussies actually have a beer called XXXX (4X). Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
Shafted Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 Yep, yellow label with 4 red Xs across it. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
Amanda Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 Now there's a coincidence; http://www.moippai.c...t-Lager-140.jpg Castlemaine beer has a factory logo (as Megan rightly pointed out) with no smoke (which may indicate that she is part haridan) and has 4 x's emblazoned on it. Now please can we get back to the topic in hand......?
Shafted Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 And here I though beer was a commercially made food. lol Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
HighHeelLover86 Posted February 1, 2013 Posted February 1, 2013 I'm one not to care too awful much about it. I figure that their is a good chance that by the time I suffer any irreversible damage the technology will exist to put my consciousness into an android body or some other such medical miracle. I've always looked at genetic engineering as progress just as I view cybernetics, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. I can understand some people's hesitance towards it but if they could alter a food to make it provide every single thing my body needs in a day and make me glow in the dark I'd be first in line quite frankly hehe. I wouldn't even mind an extra set of functional arms now that I think about it. Life is like a good shoe store, the more variety the better!
meganiwish Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 We older ones here will have been brought up on Reddybrek, a kind of instant oat porridge that, according to the TV adverts left you with a nuclear glow around you, while your schoolchums shivered in a grey winter. I can't find an example anywhere on the internoodle, but I expect someone could. I daresay I'm not the only one here raised on Reddybrek. (Don't pay for cryogenics or expect people in the future to bring you back to life or stop you dying. It won't happen. When you need new people there's an easier way of making them. We're not short of people.)
Amanda Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 I wouldn't rely on technology for your future wellbeing. In my opinion it's got us into a horrible mess, a mess which will inevitably stem its own growth.
Shafted Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 I'm one not to care too awful much about it. I figure that their is a good chance that by the time I suffer any irreversible damage the technology will exist to put my consciousness into an android body or some other such medical miracle. I've always looked at genetic engineering as progress just as I view cybernetics, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. I can understand some people's hesitance towards it but if they could alter a food to make it provide every single thing my body needs in a day and make me glow in the dark I'd be first in line quite frankly hehe. I wouldn't even mind an extra set of functional arms now that I think about it. Apparently you didn't read about the above GMO BT corn. I ask when people talk about serious matters that they do their homework. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
HighHeelLover86 Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 Apparently you didn't read about the above GMO BT corn. I ask when people talk about serious matters that they do their homework. I'm somewhat familiar with the general principle. It honestly doesn't bother me though. Besides even if it did bother me their is really nothing I can do about it so I don't worry about it. The government, powers that be, or whatever will always find a way to do what they want to do. I do agree with your point of doing your own research though. It would be nice if our food didn't kill us before we find a way to do things better but hey I'm just another animal on planet Earth trying to survive like everything else. If its our fate to kill ourselves off I'm at least going to try and have a good life while I'm here. I know my views are most likely in the minority but I make no apologies for it. I'm sure you folks can understand my views as I think I can understand yours. Great discussion too. Life is like a good shoe store, the more variety the better!
Shafted Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 To each their own. Just remember that we all must face the consequences of our own decisions. Too many people in this world don't want to be responsible for their own decisions. In my opinion they gave up their right to complain. I don't want to hear their sob story. People have to learn to live with their own choices and not blame it on others as they do. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
meganiwish Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KUoS3mmvM I wouldn't rely on technology for your future wellbeing. In my opinion it's got us into a horrible mess, a mess which will inevitably stem its own growth. Thank you for finding that, Amanda. I liked it in the days when radiation was still good for you. They should have left it that way, especially as there's so much nuclear bric-a-brac around now. You've been studying your Marx, haven't you?
Shafted Posted February 2, 2013 Posted February 2, 2013 I liked it in the days when radiation was still good for you. They should have left it that way, especially as there's so much nuclear bric-a-brac around now. Yes, those were the days. when governments had their populations actually believing that hiding under a desk was the best defense during nuclear attack. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
Dr. Shoe Posted February 6, 2013 Posted February 6, 2013 Horseburger anyone? (Peeps on this side of the pond know what I'm talking about!) Graduate footwear designer able to advise and assist on modification and shoe making projects.
meganiwish Posted February 6, 2013 Posted February 6, 2013 Nay. A good starter, but apt to tail off in the final furlong.
Shafted Posted February 6, 2013 Posted February 6, 2013 Horseburger anyone? (Peeps on this side of the pond know what I'm talking about!) I do believe Burger King was busted for that. Shafted, the boots that is! View my gallery here http://www.hhplace.o...afteds-gallery/ or view my heeling thread here http://www.hhplace.org/topic/3850-new-pair-of-boots-starts-me-serious-street-heeling/ - Pm me if you want fashion advice or just need someone to talk to.
ilikekicks Posted February 6, 2013 Author Posted February 6, 2013 A local ' China Buffet ' was caught taking road-kill deer into their facility here in Western NY. They were shut down immediatly. 4 days later, the place opened back up with a ' new ' owner and staff. REPEATEDLY ARGUMENTATIVE, INSULTING AND RUDE. BANNED FOR LIFE.
meganiwish Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 As a sign that austerity has even hit the criminal world, I was talking to a chap who'd crossed the local mafiosi and came home to find a burger on his bed.
Amanda Posted February 7, 2013 Posted February 7, 2013 As a sign that austerity has even hit the criminal world, I was talking to a chap who'd crossed the local mafiosi and came home to find a burger on his bed. Excellent, thank You Megan :-)
meganiwish Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 With that asteroid due on Friday, I wonder if we'll see the Four Burger Flippers of the Apocalypse.
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