Comments on: Local food’s long reach http://deitchley.com/2006/10/local-foods-long-reach/ I'll be dipped in owl butter Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: KNH http://deitchley.com/2006/10/local-foods-long-reach/comment-page-1/#comment-27 KNH Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:42:26 +0000 http://www.deitchley.com/blog/2006/10/20/59/#comment-27 I feel like you're begging me to comment, so here it is: <a href="http://www.beefusa.org/NEWSConsumerGroupsBlastSafetyofUSBeefSupplyNCBAResponse-620522133.aspx" rel="nofollow">Irradiated poop is still poop!</a> Hee hee reminds me of SPMI days :) Still funny, still alarmingly ignored by the food industry. Now, for the serious comment: Those of us in regulated industry know that even if they solve the spinach problem, it's only the spinach problem they'll solve. Waste water from disgusting <a href="http://www.kristynicole.com/blog/2006/08/16/131/" rel="nofollow">feed lots</a> will still exist, ready to poison our food and choke out diverse wildlife in the waters so polluted. I'm no vegan, but I do recognize that the more we industrialize, the more natural diversity struggles. A recent story on <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/10/19/cloning-food.html" rel="nofollow">cloning animals for food</a> chills me because it ignores the benefits of genetic diversity. Hello people, mutation allows adaptation! Well anyway. Not everyone is ready for the idea that meat is murder but I do think we humans are not thinking straight when cash is king. Living creatures, not only the food animals but the whole biosystem, deserve <b>way</b> more respect than we give. If we treated all cows like Kobe beef cattle, the sheer price of meat would convert almost everyone to a meatless diet. Cows live better, we stop abusing them, nature and humans both win. Should I have stopped after the irradiated poop line? :) I feel like you’re begging me to comment, so here it is:

Irradiated poop is still poop!

Hee hee reminds me of SPMI days :)

Still funny, still alarmingly ignored by the food industry.

Now, for the serious comment:

Those of us in regulated industry know that even if they solve the spinach problem, it’s only the spinach problem they’ll solve. Waste water from disgusting feed lots will still exist, ready to poison our food and choke out diverse wildlife in the waters so polluted.

I’m no vegan, but I do recognize that the more we industrialize, the more natural diversity struggles. A recent story on cloning animals for food chills me because it ignores the benefits of genetic diversity. Hello people, mutation allows adaptation!

Well anyway. Not everyone is ready for the idea that meat is murder but I do think we humans are not thinking straight when cash is king. Living creatures, not only the food animals but the whole biosystem, deserve way more respect than we give. If we treated all cows like Kobe beef cattle, the sheer price of meat would convert almost everyone to a meatless diet. Cows live better, we stop abusing them, nature and humans both win.

Should I have stopped after the irradiated poop line? :)

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