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2007-10-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Frank G 2007-10-21 16:24|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Actually, Stossel is a centrist. He supports gay marriage, and rejects state interference in most moral issues. He is is close to the Libertarians on government regulation, but isn't opposed to reasonable constraints where public health and safety is at issue. On the whole, Stossel's views don't have general support. However, when he says that banning synthetic fertilizers in favor of organics would cause widespread starvation and unnecessary expansion of farmland, people would do well to take the saintly veneer off so-called "natural farmers." They are as menacing as the e-coli tainted product that they sell.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-21 16:34|| 2007-10-21 16:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Think of all those organic farmers in Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, etc. You notice a pattern? Let the rich pay for their 'natural' foods that when the next blight hits, they can come over an eat cheap like the rest of us.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-21 18:41|| 2007-10-21 18:41|| Front Page Top

#3 My brother was an ag major in college. Once a lefty-earthy-crunchy type asked one of his profs in class why the whole world couldn't just convert to organic.

"Because half the world would starve", was the answer.

Organic food is a way for rich folks to avoid carcinogens while simultaneously stroking their egos and pretending to themselves that they are benificent. Without a certain minimum of fertilizers and pesticides, 6 billion is unsustainable.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-10-21 18:46|| 2007-10-21 18:46|| Front Page Top

#4 When you stop adding pesticides to the outside, plants make them themselves on the inside.

Organic = High pesticide.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-10-21 19:06|| 2007-10-21 19:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone proposed a "republican" pill. If you take it, you can eat anything you want and still stay slender, healthy and have toned muscles. However, it has a side effect that democrats would die horribly, in agony, from republicans having pleasure without pain.

Democrats wouldn't actually need to take the pill themselves for this side effect to happen. It would be caused by the anguish of not being able to make others as miserable and full of rage and hate as they themselves are.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-21 20:17|| 2007-10-21 20:17|| Front Page Top

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