EU vote on GM labelling - we won!

[Calaethis Dragonsbane]

*sighs* someone else please explain... Im not sure if I can.. anyway, i was young at the time it happened, perhaps someone OLDER, and more experienced should explain. of course, I dont expect that over in America you even hear about what goes on over here, we're only a small island after all

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Hehe, if you want to know about contaminated food, go read Fast Food Nation. Scarey stuff. So glad I'm a veggie - what goes on in the meat industry is beyond belief.

*EVERYONE* should read that book…
It’s a real o_0

[Silver Cheetah]

Originally posted by MagiK: quote: Originally posted by Calaethis Dragonsbane: Yes madness... thats why the goverment burn down all OUR apple trees so they could IMPORT them from NEW ZEALAND! bah! am I the only one who thinks thats crazy? cant remember which goveremnt tho...

Never heard about that, but some times things like that are done due to public health reasons, or to protect indigenous plants from non-native plants...are apples native to england? [/QUOTE]Give over dude, course they are. We used to have 57 million varieties, in the old days before standardisation and huge volumes for cost efficiencies. Whether they're native to the US, that I don't know. Maybe the settlers took 'em over?

[Silver Cheetah]

Originally posted by RudeDawg: quote: Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Um, what bit don't you understand? Maybe you call GM something different in the US?

yes, Silver Cheetah. Here in the USA, it's GE - > Genetically Enhanced Just a marketing ploy to make it seem better for us. [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Hehe, like your style, RudeDawg!

[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Give over dude, course they are. We used to have 57 million varieties, in the old days before standardisation and huge volumes for cost efficiencies. Whether they're native to the US, that I don't know. Maybe the settlers took 'em over?

Yep, apples were brought over into the USA by the settlers. Not native to the American continents at all. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Hehe, like your style, RudeDawg!

Thanks.

It's similar to the marketing idea for irradiated foods. They use a flower on the label to represent radiation-bombarded food. [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] Yeah, when I'm thinking of radiation, flowers come to mind.

Originally posted by Dramnek_Ulk: quote: Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Hehe, if you want to know about contaminated food, go read Fast Food Nation. Scarey stuff. So glad I'm a veggie - what goes on in the meat industry is beyond belief.

*EVERYONE* should read that book…
It’s a real o_0[/QUOTE] As a Proud eater of meats and meat like substances and the decendant of males who also have et meat all their lives averaging out to around 85 years of life each...Im quite happy to eat meat. Oldest Total Veggie I have ever met is only in their 50's and hasn't always been a veggie from birth. Of course, since they were Farmers and hunters we did most of the "processing" ourselves....

[ 07-09-2002, 02:38 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]

Johnny Appleseed bropught us our Apples [img]smile.gif[/img]

[RudeDawg]

Originally posted by MagiK: As a Proud eater of meats and meat like substances and the decendant of males who also have et meat all their lives averaging out to around 85 years of life each...Im quite happy to eat meat. Oldest Total Veggie I have ever met is only in their 50's and hasn't always been a veggie from birth. Of course, since they were Farmers and hunters we did most of the "processing" ourselves....

I am a proud carnivore. I eat meat often, and as rare as possible. [img]graemlins/eating.gif[/img]

The book is about the food processing industry. If you ever find out about what happens in many of the world's largest food processing factories, you'd avoid their products, too.

I won't go into detail, but I know that I did [img]graemlins/1puke.gif[/img] several times during the reading of it, and similar books.

[Silver Cheetah]

Originally posted by MagiK: quote: Originally posted by Dramnek_Ulk: quote: Originally posted by Silver Cheetah: Hehe, if you want to know about contaminated food, go read Fast Food Nation. Scarey stuff. So glad I'm a veggie - what goes on in the meat industry is beyond belief.

*EVERYONE* should read that book…
It’s a real o_0[/QUOTE] As a Proud eater of meats and meat like substances and the decendant of males who also have et meat all their lives averaging out to around 85 years of life each...Im quite happy to eat meat. Oldest Total Veggie I have ever met is only in their 50's and hasn't always been a veggie from birth. Of course, since they were Farmers and hunters we did most of the "processing" ourselves....[/QUOTE]Well I'm 41 and look about 12 [img]smile.gif[/img] - a veggie for ooh, ever so long. Go figure!!

And nothing wrong with meat in its natural form, - but what the farming and meat industry do to meat these days, well, if I was a meat eater, I'd want to be informed. Or maybe not. Ignorance can be bliss, they say..