From a purist perspective one might say; "Just as I don't use
unknowable code (i.e. closed source) I don't eat unknowable food (i.e.
food produced by methods I can't understand).
I'm no purist, but it seems intuitivly obvious to me that known
methods have known drawbacks, which can be allowed for, wheras unknown
methods produce nasty gotchas. And for the same reason, somebody has
decided I don't need the information I require to determine the safety of
both proprietary software or food grown by unexplained and unknown
commercial methods. I guess I think of organic food as the result of open
source agriculture.
So I'll drink Wollaver's if it's on tap knowing that it's organic
in much more a PR-speak manner than in a strictly biological sense of the
word.
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Thomas J Macauley wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 01:00:43 -0800
> From: Thomas J Macauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Tautology
>
> Saw something funny tonight. Price-Chopper had bags of Gold Medal
> "Organic" flour. I've never heard of in-organic flour. I wonder what
> it's made of.
>
> I see bags of organic carrots -- why don't they have bags of plastic
> carrots beside them?
>
> Come to think of it, that whole "organically grown vegetable" thing is
> a crock. How else do vegetables grow?
>
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Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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