Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

In article <9O7Sj.6499$ko5.2448@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "0tterbot" <spl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> <Charlie> wrote in message 
> news:er8e149ef6q6k0jf63tg03nfkuirhbgmko@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:31:48 +1000, "FarmI" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 be given>
> 
> > I wonder about the addition of high fructose corn syrup, and all sorts
> > of corn derivatives to our food.
> 
> in australia corn syrup & corn additives are rare. we grow sugar cane
here 
> :-)
> 
> so i don't think that's it.
> 
> And eating what barely p***** as
> > "meat".
> 
> same again.
> 
>  I agree with your observations about kids when we were young
> > as compared to now, but all problems are overdetermined, too many
> > variables and too many combinations of variables perhaps.
> 
> quite so. for example the "obesity epidemic" (which isn't, actually).
this 
> "epidemic" mainly occurs in geographic and socio-economic pockets - it's
not 
> spread over the entire populace. when statisticians use averages though,
it 
> warps the reality, & is therefore harder to solve because it's
supposedly 
> "everyone's" problem (despite the fact that it's not).
> 
> > Something else that comes to mind that is different and that is
causing
> > a bit of a ****storm, as it should, is all the vaccinating of our
young
> > that is so effing required nowadays.
> 
> in my state (possibly the entire country, i don't know) there is no 
> requirement to vaccinate whatsoever. it's just that if you're a 
> conscientious objector, your child will be legally excluded from school
or 
> pre-school if or when some other conscientious objector brings a disease

> into the group.
> 
> i don't object to vaccination at all, & my kids are vaccinated. i'm
starting 
> to wonder where it's going to end, though. for example, i think people
who 
> have flu vaccinations want their head read. and the current schedule for

> babies is becoming worrying. i'm glad i had my kids before certain 
> vaccinations even became available.
> 
> modern westerners have a problem with death in general, that's what it
is.
> kylie 

You have McDonalds, and Burger King but you don't have high fructose 
corn syrup? Do your packaging laws require ingredients to be listed?
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