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Sun Dec 22, 2013, 02:18 PMStar Member Flaxbee (12,892 posts) Five Foods That Are Killing the PlanetSpoiler alert: Stop reading now if you can't live without Quarter Pounders, packaged pastries, or expensive sushi. (Actually - read on, and change your habits. It's not that hard.) What are the five foods? Read the article for a full explanation, but here you go: 1) Bluefin Tuna 2) Conventional (non shade grown, non organic) coffee 3) Cheap burgers 4) Genetically modified corn 5) Palm oil http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201401/enjoy-five-foods-killing-the-planet.aspx We'll let Pulitzer Prize–winning food critic Jonathan Gold get on his soapbox for this one: "People need to stop eating BLUEFIN TUNA. Period. It'll be difficult because bluefin is uncommonly delicious and tends to be served at high-end sushi bars, where the fashion is to say 'omakase' and submit to the chef's will. But the numbers of these magnificent fish are dropping fast. If we don't stop eating them now, we'll stop in a few years anyway because there won't be any more." Carl Safina, who founded the Blue Ocean Institute, adds, "Because they're long-lived, bluefin populations don't stand up well to heavy fishing pressure—that's why they're so depleted. It's just too sad to eat them. Plus, big fish are high in mercury." To rein in your share of the overfishing disaster currently unfolding—bluefin stock is down by more than 96 percent from unfished levels—order a vegetarian roll instead.
Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you can't live without Quarter Pounders, packaged pastries, or expensive sushi.
I can only think of one thing "Palm" oil is good for... And it ain't eating. Well unless your into that freaky shit.
Why do DUmmies hate poor people? GMO crops are being developed to grow in places that normally can't grow food crops. GMO grains and vegetables are being created that are higher in vitamins and other necessary minerals and stuff.GMO crops are helping to feed and nourish poor people .
GMO is just a more sophisticated version of what humans have been doing since they started fiddling with agriculture. The best simple example I've heard is that back when man first started to farm corn the ears were about 1/2" long.
I think I will just continue to decide for myself what I eat. It's gotten me this far.
Heh. Makes you almost wish that people hadn't quit using Crisco.It's shortening, y'know.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024213863Star Member Flaxbee (12,892 posts)2) Conventional (non shade grown, non organic) coffee
That's the way I look at it. Scientists are doing in the lab in months and years what Luther Burbank took decades to do in the fields and gardens.
Palm oil is what makes movie popcorn well....movie popcorn. Why do the primitives hate big hollywood?
the numbers of these magnificent fish are dropping fast. If we don't stop eating them now, we'll stop in a few years anyway because there won't be any more.
If we don't stop eating them now, we'll stop in a few years anyway
Sun Dec 22, 2013, 02:18 PMStar Member Flaxbee (12,892 posts) Quote..."Because they're long-lived, bluefin populations don't stand up well to heavy fishing pressure—that's why they're so depleted. It's just too sad to eat them. Plus, big fish are high in mercury." To rein in your share of the overfishing disaster currently unfolding—bluefin stock is down by more than 96 percent from unfished levels—order a vegetarian roll instead.
..."Because they're long-lived, bluefin populations don't stand up well to heavy fishing pressure—that's why they're so depleted. It's just too sad to eat them. Plus, big fish are high in mercury." To rein in your share of the overfishing disaster currently unfolding—bluefin stock is down by more than 96 percent from unfished levels—order a vegetarian roll instead.
