Just read a bit of unsettling news where supposedly meat especially beef and chicken in grocery stores have Staph Aureus on them. Most of this is being linked to the use of Anti-biotics on the animals contributing to a rise in resistant strains of Staph Aureus. Thing that really concerned me was them finding meat at a grocery store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Seems like every time I turn around there's something new out there that can kill us. Today I was fixing up part of the house i'm living in at the moment and was preparing to put some caulk away. I took a quick look at the "Warning" signs on it saying it was Harmful and/or FATAL. It went on and on saying it could cause heart irregularities, heart problems, kidney failure, central nervous system damage, etc... and it just made me stop and pause wondering why people should even use the product if it has so many warnings on it.

Heh, you should have seen all the stuff around that could kill us 100 years ago.

You mean the stuff that we cured and/or effectively got rid of only to have more, different, potentially more deadly things pop up in their place.

Well, of course silicone caulking could be fatal - if you inhale the stuff. Those sorts of warnings and waivers are all there because humans have become predominantly either stupid or litigious in recent times.

I think the most disconcerting thing is the label on toothpaste that says to call poison control if you swallow too much of it.

Yeah you shouldn't eat caulk. :wink_smile:

Good thing I eat local, pasture-fed chicken.

The only thing that does not kill or endanger you in this world is being happy. So, what's the big deal? That's life.

Cause it's expected that a normal person won't eat caulk.

I have been vegetarian for a quarter of a century, and I have always had people make fun of me for that, but in that time, here in the UK, we have had foot and mouth, BSE, salmonella in most of the chickens, and still they want to know why I don't eat meat.

Unless you only eat actual homegrown or completely trustworthy all natural food from the local outdoors market or a farm store, that doesn't really count.

And why is that

Oh, you have to support your local farmers' market. Apart from anything else, it tastes better.

See, and I do that even with tasty meat. I really don't get why more people here do. Then again, most Germans do have a nasty stinginess when it comes to food. The one thing that you really shouldn't be thrifty about.

Super market quality vegetables are just about the same quality of healthy as super market meat. That's why.

Where'd you hear that

But Meatwad does, and he can see the future!

Um, the world's always been out to get us.
The world's always beenout to get erverything else as well

But

It's mostly a draw, and sets up equilibrium*. Kind of like Montgomery Burns: Burns has a condition known as "Three Stooges Syndrome", where a delicate state of homeostasis is created by the presence in his body of every disease known to man and other newly-discovered diseases unique to him, which, when all trying to invade his body simultaneously, cancel out each other.

As for all the crap that's out there, it's a bit of a catch 22. Too expensive to eat healthy, yet we must choose by our speding habits. Too many bad things out there, yet the manufacture of those products provide jobs. Ya....I'll stop...

*Well, if equilibrium exists, or if we are affecting it, etc. is debateable....but probably not on the forums.

Oh, and then there's the chance of death by meteoroid/asteroid/comet which has always been there...but it's not the world is out get us there. It's more like the world is displacing its aggression onto us because it just knows it's going to smacked again from outer space

Ya that's what really makes me want law makers to put a law in the book called the responsibility act into the place. Surprised I haven't seen some moron suing the power company because he/she stuck a fork into an electrical outlet, got shocked, and has permanent heart problems because of it.

With the warnings though it's like even getting a tiny spec on your hand means instant irreversible problems for the person which wigs me out. Same thing goes for medication lately where it seems to cure 1 thing, but it causes like 25 other problems. Heck even advil now has like 15 some odd warnings about blood pressure, heart conditions, liver damage, kidney failure, etc... .

It's a by-product of the Supermarket food cycle. I live in the frigid wastelands of Canada. When I go to the supermarket, I get bananas from Ecuador, tomatoes from Chile, kiwis from China, and peppers from Mexico. Now, putting aside the ecological implications from shipping, that food does take a good deal of time to travel those hundreds and thousands of kilometers. Yet when they arrive, they are all ripe. To meet this freshness window, these fruits and vegetables are picked well before their ideal ripeness - and in so doing, miss out on a whole schwack of vitamins and nutrients. So, yes, supermarket produce is inferior to the same species grown and sold locally.

(And that's just one argument. There's several others - like pesticide and hormone usage and the aforementioned shipping carbon footprint)

I pay the Musician's Union for public liability insurance, because if some drunken langer falls onto our kit with a pint in his hand and gets partially fried, apparently these days it could be my fault. Bizarre.

Grown and decay, grown and decay.. its only forever.

There have been and always will be stuff out there that can and will kill other stuff.

the day it stops is when you should be alarmed, because it means theres no difference of potential left.

You should read about the chemicals they spray on all these fruits and veggies. Artificial stuff that preserves it, helps protect it from insects etc etc.

It's basically the same thing as with meat.

Really, you would be surprised what passes for a normal person. :whistling:

Yes, because small farms don't use pesticides...

It must be that demonic refrigeration technology and hyper advanced wax coatings...