And wasn't it just a couple months ago that there was an article here that talked about how all the "evil" Big Food corporations were putting cellulose (OMG WOOD PULP!!!) into foods as a means of - uh - I don't know - being "evil"? One minute they're doing it to make us healthy... The next minute they're doing the…

OK - I'm just going to call a spade a spade here. This guy is just trying to find a 'nice' way to say that he wants to butcher a few billion humans in order to advance the political objectives of radical environmentalists. Not even the crazed Reverend-Moon Greenies want to just come out and put it that way though,…

Cool - but they'll need to make those panels cheaper still before they're a good option for residential power.

I work in an industry that occasionally has to deal with California's regulatory environment. To put it simply and bluntly, California is a joke. Thier legislature for years has been bought and paid for by environmentalist lobbies who push the most ridiculously stringent rules through. Bringing a product up to…

Farm subsidies in general need to end. If you can't make a profitable business without the government shovelling money at you then the model is unsustainable.

Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal. I know people who were skinny Americans and then went to France and got fat and diabetic because they pigged out on crepes, cheese, and wine. It isn't the food. It's how much you eat of it. But yeah, US food does tend to be way salty.

I was going to say - sounds like a load of hooey you hoser, eh? :) I've done blind taste tests with Throwbacks and Regular sodas. The only difference is the Throwbacks don't have as much 'bite' to the carbonation, and they have a slightly smoother mouth-feel. To hear Shaun you'd think drinking a Regular soda is…

Devil's Advocate... "Artificial"... That's a term that gets mis-applied a lot. Just because a food is processed does not make it artificial, and too many foodies go on and on about 'all natural' like it was some magical thing. Brass tacks - unless you grew it yourself in your own dirt with no pesticides or…

I like the Throwbacks. I wish Coca-Cola would do the Throwback thing with its drinks. Real sugar sodas have less of a 'bite' to them, and have a smoother taste and mouth feel. Plus - as you say - a bit less sugar... :)

There is some truth to the Meso/Ecto/Endo morph position. People do have body types, and it is not like everyone can just exercise thier way towards looking like Charles Atlas. However, it is entirely possible for even an Ectomorph to use diet and exercise to improve health and appearance dramatically. Just be…

Here's the other side of the coin... Corn farmers can produce corn cheaper and more efficiently than sugar beets or cane. That means that HFCS is going to be cheaper than other forms of sugar.

At the risk of offending the diety challenged, I'll go ahead and say "Amen". The formula is simple. Exercise more + Eat less = Skinny, healthy person.

I generally agree. The basic premise of most of these "Food Nazi" health scares we see so often is less about health and more about scaring the pants off people to get attention and funding. After all - whose going to pay all the research centers millions of dollars just to tell us, "No problem. Everything's…

I didn't say parks were bad. They're fine. Just don't let the government within a million miles of them because they terribly mis-manage them. And the central planners WERE the ones that pushed out wolves and bears. Before they came along, ranchers would control them their own way. Wolves and bears are smart…

Part of the problem is the Eco-Fanaticism. Some environmentalists strike the extreme position that any development of any kind by man in a natural setting 'destroys' habitat. This is true on a localized level (IE building a mall on a specific spot replaced THAT specific habitat), but not on a broad level. Cutting…

Centrally controlled management of nature always was, currently is, and always will be a disastrous failure. The sad story of Yellowstone is a textbook example. Teddy Roosevelt liked Yellowstone, so he made it a national park to 'preserve' it. Brilliant central managers were brought in. They decided to kill the…

"No, people are far too likely to practice Religion, with it's laws and rituals, without following it's philosophies"

I did not mean that it was not possible to have morality without religion. What I said was that religion "inspired, fomented, encouraged, and cultivated" and indeed reinforces obedience to such morality. I also went on to say that 'religion' (as a generic term) was often falsely blamed for too many negatives (which…

I don't think I missed that particular thrust. I was merely focusing on the isolated quotation. If that one sentence did not encapsulate your position properly, then don't feel too picked on. I was just using it as an example of a larger problem (and to be blunt it was a VERY good example)... :)

Hear hear. Too many people blame far too much on religion, far too glibly, and with far too little evidence. I think it is very fair to say that there are a lot of butt-hurt people on the internet that blame religion in general for things that are the actions of individuals who in no way shape or form represent…