On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Asad Haider <[email protected]> wrote: > For example, McDonald's used to fry french fries in beef tallow; when the > tide turned against animal fat, they switched to hydrogenated vegetable oil. > Now, you and I may not need to worry about questions like that at the dinner > table, but for a good deal of people who eat at McDonald's the question of > the chemical constituents in their meals is a vitally important historical > and political issue--and, based on what we now know about trans fats and > heart disease, a matter of life and death.
I didn't say it was unimportant. Merely that it is tangential to the issue of overconsumption. > So let me rephrase myself: preserving the existing knowledge produced by the > world's rich traditions of food will require high-tech, innovative farming > solutions! That's something I can get behind! -raghu. -- "Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!" _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
