Frederick FN Noronha wrote: >(1) Since I don't want to get dragged into discussing the science of coconut >oil, all I'll do > is to point to this link. There is a lot more being discussed about this: > Is Coconut Oil Health >http://www.ehow.com/about_5101508_coconut-oil-healthy.html
FN, There is no need for anyone to be afraid of science. Science is explanatory, it moves items from the unknown into the known. The facts and numbers it provides can be fun and the numbers for coconut oil (virgin) is 92% saturated fats and 6% monounsaturated fats. Once these numbers are known, all that is left is for the lay man to discuss if these saturated fats are good or bad for him. This is what you have to be afraid off, this is what you do not want to get dragged into as this is the discussion that will never end. As an example, the topic of virgin coconut oil is brought up here every few months and, to boot, someone will claim that drinking pure virgin coconut oil is good for him. The World Health Organisation on the other hand, advises against the high consumption of coconut oil. I take this warning from the food scientists seriously. >(4) What a Toronto high school student *can* do is irrelevant to us > and finding solutions where it matters. Likewise, *when* this technology > *was invented* is equally irrelevant. The question here is what is > *appropriate*, > what *is being implemented* and what *is accessible*. Thanks to JoeGoaUk, > we have just rediscovered a working ghanno in Canacona! It is relevant to > the people there, and they're using it. That's important. What I see in the video is close to cruelty. The people are in a dirt poor environment and are trying to make a living by making a cow spin around in a circle. This crude method should have ended 50 years ago. >(5) Your point is: "What Goa needs is a frame work that educates kids > for the future. An education that enables a person to read and digest > the facts. Goans are capable of much more than growing rice and harvesting > coconuts." > >> To this, I'd say, is it an either-or situation? Do we have to look down >> upon "growing rice and harvesting coconuts"? Who decides what >> "Goa needs"? And aren't there anyway all kinds of diverse needs within >> a diverse Goa (or any place for that matter)? The requisite for progress, is change. When you are afraid to change, you are left behind by those who do not fear it. Coconut and rice growers in Goa cannot make a living. They have all but abandoned the occupation as they have understood the facts. The faster these people get integrated into the economy of 2013, the better off Goa is going to be. Lastly, I have not heard of prosperity in any area that depends on the economics of coconut and rice growing. Mervyn
