Posted by David Hare-Scott on November 2, 2010, 4:24 am
Dan L wrote:
> Two of my favorite science fiction classic books is "The Space
> Merchants, by Fredrick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth" a 1952 classic. It's
> about corporations in the future selling addictive foods and products
> that are harmful to human health and saying it's good for you and
> making bigs bucks and enslaving the lower class at the same time.
> These guys were way ahead of their time. Reading this novel was like
> reading the current news during bad old cigarette days.
Eat some crunchies which make you thirsty, so you have some popsie soda
which triggers a craving for a cigarette, that triggers a craving for some
crunchies, so you follow that with a popsie and then ......
David.
Posted by Dan L on November 2, 2010, 8:34 am
> Dan L wrote:
>>
>> Two of my favorite science fiction classic books is "The Space
>> Merchants, by Fredrick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth" a 1952 classic. It's
>> about corporations in the future selling addictive foods and products
>> that are harmful to human health and saying it's good for you and
>> making bigs bucks and enslaving the lower class at the same time.
>> These guys were way ahead of their time. Reading this novel was like
>> reading the current news during bad old cigarette days.
>>
>
> Eat some crunchies which make you thirsty, so you have some popsie
> soda which triggers a craving for a cigarette, that triggers a craving
> for some crunchies, so you follow that with a popsie and then ......
>
> David.
Another fan :)
I am about to have breakfast with my cup of Coffiest :)
--
Enjoy Life... Dan L (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)
Posted by Billy on November 2, 2010, 12:44 pm
> Dan L wrote:
> >
> > Two of my favorite science fiction classic books is "The Space
> > Merchants, by Fredrick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth" a 1952 classic. It's
> > about corporations in the future selling addictive foods and products
> > that are harmful to human health and saying it's good for you and
> > making bigs bucks and enslaving the lower class at the same time.
> > These guys were way ahead of their time. Reading this novel was like
> > reading the current news during bad old cigarette days.
> >
>
> Eat some crunchies which make you thirsty, so you have some popsie soda
> which triggers a craving for a cigarette, that triggers a craving for some
> crunchies, so you follow that with a popsie and then ......
>
> David.
Since we seem to have jumped the tracks here anyway, let me just observe
that the only people left in the industrialized world who don't know
about the deleterious health effects of HFCS must be watchers of FOX
NEWS (Murdoch & Co.), and, therefore, supporters of Glen Beck, and Sarah
Palin.
Probably the best thing we could do for our country, and the planet is
to encourage these folks to eat as much HFCS as possible, and refuse any
government health care that they may be offered.
We now return to our next OT posting.
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2010/07/201072816515308172.html
Posted by Bill who putters on November 2, 2010, 1:16 pm
In article
>
> > Dan L wrote:
> > >
> > > Two of my favorite science fiction classic books is "The Space
> > > Merchants, by Fredrick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth" a 1952 classic. It's
> > > about corporations in the future selling addictive foods and products
> > > that are harmful to human health and saying it's good for you and
> > > making bigs bucks and enslaving the lower class at the same time.
> > > These guys were way ahead of their time. Reading this novel was like
> > > reading the current news during bad old cigarette days.
> > >
> >
> > Eat some crunchies which make you thirsty, so you have some popsie soda
> > which triggers a craving for a cigarette, that triggers a craving for some
> > crunchies, so you follow that with a popsie and then ......
> >
> > David.
>
> Since we seem to have jumped the tracks here anyway, let me just observe
> that the only people left in the industrialized world who don't know
> about the deleterious health effects of HFCS must be watchers of FOX
> NEWS (Murdoch & Co.), and, therefore, supporters of Glen Beck, and Sarah
> Palin.
>
> Probably the best thing we could do for our country, and the planet is
> to encourage these folks to eat as much HFCS as possible, and refuse any
> government health care that they may be offered.
>
> We now return to our next OT posting.
Glad you are back missed ya!
--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplements/
Posted by zxcvbob on November 2, 2010, 4:11 pm
Billy wrote:
>
> Since we seem to have jumped the tracks here anyway, let me just
> observe that the only people left in the industrialized world who
> don't know about the deleterious health effects of HFCS must be
> watchers of FOX NEWS (Murdoch & Co.), and, therefore, supporters of
> Glen Beck, and Sarah Palin.
>
HFCS is not significantly worse than cane sugar or beet sugar or
honey. All four are made up of approximately the same proportions of
glucose and fructose. That doesn't mean HFCS is good for you, quite
the opposite; it means sugar and honey are worse for you than ppl think.
The food industry in the USA switched from sugar to HFCS because
protective tariffs made the price of sugar too high to use it in
products where HFCS could be substituted (an that means just about
everything except candy.) The corn->ethanol for fuel craze has raised
the cost of HFCS to where sugar (even with the tariff) is almost
competitive again, so food companies are starting to switch back.
Americans (myself included) get way too many of our calories from
fructose and alcohol. The actual delivery vehicles are not that
important except for the ubiquity of the fructose. But reverting from
HFCS to sucrose won't really help.
I liked Sarah Palin before she got popular, but I don't watch
mainstream media, Fox News or otherwise (and especially not AM radio.)
Best regards,
Bob
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> Merchants, by Fredrick Pohl & C.M. Kornbluth" a 1952 classic. It's
> about corporations in the future selling addictive foods and products
> that are harmful to human health and saying it's good for you and
> making bigs bucks and enslaving the lower class at the same time.
> These guys were way ahead of their time. Reading this novel was like
> reading the current news during bad old cigarette days.