On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, K. Feete wrote:
> Taking this one from the top, I don't deny that my family produces a
> fairly insignificant amount of food, but I do object to your phrase "low
> value". We don't produce great *quantities* of food but we do produce
> high *quality* products, which more and more people are coming to
> recognize has a pretty significant value to their lives and their health.
> You eat food from those large farms, I eat food from my small one: care
> to compare doctor's visits and number of tooth fillings, John?
I don't think this argument carries any weight.
The vast majority of the food I've eaten throughout my life has come
from the supermarket, and thus from large farms. I don't have any
fillings, and I've had exactly one trip to the doctor that wasn't for
a routine checkup or physical. (My family never believed in running
to the doctor for every little cold.) While I agree that the *taste*
of some foods (tomatoes and sweet corn in particular) is far superior
from the small places, I don't believe it has any impact on health,
or at least that any impact is swamped by other individual factors.
(I appear based on observational evidence to have a fairly robust
immune system).
--
Andrea Leistra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you can keep your head while all those about you are
losing theirs, perhaps you have misunderstood the situation."
-- Daniel Keys Moran, _The Long Run_
