The 112th Congress - The first Orange-American to be elected Speaker

[LynahFan]

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According to a friend of mine who was a nutrition major at Cornell, a Frito-Lay executive gave them this advice in a guest lecture: "If you want to make money in the food industry, whenever you can, sell air. If you can't sell air, sell salt. And if you can't sell salt, sell water."

Probably sound advice, unfortunately.

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: The 112th Congress - The first Orange-American to be elected Speaker

According to a friend of mine who was a nutrition major at Cornell, a Frito-Lay executive gave them this advice in a guest lecture: "If you want to make money in the food industry, whenever you can, sell air. If you can't sell air, sell salt. And if you can't sell salt, sell water."

Probably sound advice, unfortunately.

Yeah, it's crazy how much the water industry makes when the stuff out of the tap isn't really that much different.

 

[Handyman]

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It makes me laugh that people pay $3 for bottled water. I mean I can understand if you lived in a third world country it makes sense but in an industrialized country? It is the biggest scam on Earth!

 

[thebrain]

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It makes me laugh that people pay $3 for bottled water. I mean I can understand if you lived in a third world country it makes sense but in an industrialized country? It is the biggest scam on Earth!

The only time I do is if I want to carry around water and don't have a bottle already. I sometimes forget to bring a bottle when I go to the gym. Otherwise I have a Camelbak or other bottle I bring to work where we have Culligan or something like that and I have a dispenser on my fridge. No reason to buy bottles.

I've been told that Minneapolis, MN, has the same water filtration that Dasani has...Dasani doesn't have the smell though...

 

[XYZ]

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It makes me laugh that people pay $3 for bottled water. I mean I can understand if you lived in a third world country it makes sense but in an industrialized country? It is the biggest scam on Earth!

$3 is a small price to pay to avoid fluorinated water that will give the UN shock troops access to your mind.

 

[walrus]

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If you want to see the bottled water industry, come to Poland Springs in Maine. I'm not sure any of it comes out of a spring, they negotiate with towns for the rights to the water, their is a non stop parade of Stainless tankers on RTE 26 carrying the well water to their several bottling plants, its really unreal as too many wells and how many tractor trailers carry the water around the plants. Million and millions of gallons every day get bottled.

 

[LynahFan]

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There are loads of other ways to sell water than just in bottle form, too - soft drinks, "fruit" punch, etc.

 

[Kepler]

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$3 is a small price to pay to avoid fluorinated water that will give the UN shock troops access to your mind.

Don't kid yourself. Obama's in your bottled water, too.

 

[Tundra]

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ADM doesn't like you, they want it called corn sugar, much healthier for you than that crappy High Fructose Corn Syrup

How about Monsanto co (MON) with GE (genetically engineered) seed. Gross Margins of 48% ... And farmers were complaining about cross-pollination from Franken seeds and getting sued (2691 farmers). It's time to stop (corn) ethanol subsidy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto

"Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is FDA's job

Much of Monsanto's seed products are specifically genetically modified, to make them resistant to Monsanto produced agricultural chemicals, such as "Round Up" herbicide

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved plantings of three genetically engineered (GE) crops in as many weeks, including Monsanto Co.'s Roundup Ready sugar beets and alfalfa that are engineered to tolerate Roundup Ready weed-killing herbicide. The USDA on February 11 also legalized, without restriction, the world's first GE corn crop meant for biofuel production. Biotech giant Syngenta's Event 3272 seed corn will simplify ethanol production and is not meant to feed animals or humans.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary...food-Why-Monsanto-s-GM-seeds-are-undemocratic

What�s wrong with having a few corporations control virtually every aspect of our sustenance? Far from abstract, the genetic and proprietary control of our diets by a handful of companies (Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta combined own an astounding 47 percent of the global seed market) directly robs consumers and farmers of the most basic right to choose what they will eat and grow.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/08/monsanto-antitrust-idUSN0825765020100108

DuPont estimates through its branded products and licensing, Monsanto has 98 percent of the U.S. soybean market and 79 percent of the corn market, along with 60 percent of the corn and soy germplasm licensed in the U.S.

"The ag biotech trait market is firmly in the grip of a single supplier, acting as a bottleneck to competition and choice... it also threatens the global goals for agriculture in the 21st Century doubling the world's food supply by 2050," the DuPont report states.

Officials with St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto declined to comment but last month filed its own report with USDA and the Justice Department denying anti-competitive conduct.

 

[Tundra]

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There are loads of other ways to sell water than just in bottle form, too - soft drinks, "fruit" punch, etc.

Yeah and it's a big market. plus you got people paying for (flavored) oxygen. Hmm I wonder if soda will taste better if you add smell (flavored gas)... Billion dollar idea?

 

[ScoobyDoo]

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Coming Soon:

Starting in Georgia....................

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia

Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin—who last year proposed making rape and domestic violence "victims" into "accusers"—has introduced a 10-page bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion in Georgia completely illegal. Both miscarriages and abortions would be potentially punishable by death: any "prenatal murder" in the words of the bill, including "human involvement" in a miscarriage, would be a felony and carry a penalty of life in prison or death.

The bill contends that Georgia is exempt from upholding Supreme Court decisions like Roe v. Wade because the Constitution's Article I only governs five crimes: counterfeiting, piracy, high seas felonies, offenses against the law of nations, and treason. According to the bill, since murder is not one of those five crimes, it should be solely governed by the state.

 

[Wol4ine]

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Coming Soon:

Starting in Georgia....................

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/miscarriage-death-penalty-georgia

This is from the bill;

Such term (prenatal murder) does not include a naturally occurring expulsion of a fetus known medically
as a 'spontaneous abortion' and popularly as a 'miscarriage' so long as there is no human
involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event.

So they lied about making a miscarriage a criminal act. The guy wants to ban abortions and prosecute those that perform them. Why don't they just say so? Why lie about it?

 

[Wol4ine]

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I've been told that Minneapolis, MN, has the same water filtration that Dasani has...Dasani doesn't have the smell though...

I had to inspect the aquafina plant in Detroit once. It's tap water from the city treatment plant. They further filter it, reverse osmosis, and then ozonate to kill the smell. I think they bottle flavored water there too. Maybe it was Gatorade or Powerade.

 

[Handyman]

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$3 is a small price to pay to avoid fluorinated water that will give the UN shock troops access to your mind.

There is nothing wrong with letting them read your mind...unless you have something to hide!!!!!11!!!!

 

[BassAle]

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I know we're officially out of serious problems when we're worrying about people getting too many calories.

you don't think the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic are serious? This is costing tax payers billions of dollars a year and is totally out of control. Middle school kids should not be getting high blood pressure and diabetes.

 

[XYZ]

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Don't kid yourself. Obama's in your bottled water, too.

Of course. It's all intertwined. Larger and more sinister than any of us can imagine. Everyone is involved, and when a person has been used up their death is faked and they go live in an island resort with Tim McVeigh and Chandra Levy.

 

[Bakunin]

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you don't think the obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic are serious? This is costing tax payers billions of dollars a year and is totally out of control. Middle school kids should not be getting high blood pressure and diabetes.

Most of the world is dealing with the problem of not having enough to eat or having water that is barely drinkable due to the diseases it carries.

I'd say compared to those things, obesity and diabetes are less significant.

 

[XYZ]

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I'd say compared to those things, obesity and diabetes are less significant.

On a worldwide scale, sure. Offshoot: But the First Lady always takes up a cause and I have no problem with Michelle Obama taking up the one she has. What we pump into ourselves, and children, is downright insane at times. It's a useful cause as far I'm concerned, and if her and Barack want to hammer down a rack of ribs who the hell cares? With all the other things out there it's mind-numbing that somehow this is even a topic of discussion at a national level.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I know we're officially out of serious problems when we're worrying about people getting too many calories.

Here's a simple and cheap solution to the school lunch problem: serve sandwiches. Offer a banana or an apple for fruit and carrots w/ ranch dip (low fat if you're calorie conscious) for a vegetable. Honestly, a lot of adults eat stuff like this when they pack their own lunches and go to work, and I doubt you'll approach your daily limit for anything with a meal of this size.

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Eat in moderation, get some exercise, if you eat something "Bad" make sure you work it off.

For exercise, join a gym, run around your neighborhood, get some P90X going, walk around a lake, run up and down the stairs, or whatever you want, just do some activity 30 minutes a day.

Not everyone is going to be a model, or has the need to compensate by becoming a freaky muscle god, just know what you're eating, eat less fast food, eat more salads, do some sort of activity, and eat in moderation.

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Why do that when schools can sign contracts with McDonalds and Coke to provide for the kids? (like some do now)

The real boogeyman in all of this is the idea that being unhealthy is the same as being fat. You can be in your BMI and look great and still be ridiculously unhealthy.

And this.

Read the ingredients in a package of shredded cheddar cheese, its a paragraph long. Its not necessarily the process its whats added in the process. If you don't think whats added is an issue, have at the hamburger helper, you'll look good eating it.

I bought some frozen Green Giant snow peas, didn't really look at the pkg until I got home,contents, peas, sugar. Why do I need sugar on peas that are already sweet?

You get no points. Just because you can't pronounce it or the ingredients list is long doesn't mean it's bad for you. Classic though. Let's ban dihydrogen oxide.

 

[Bakunin]

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But the First Lady always takes up a cause and I have no problem with Michelle Obama taking up the one she has. What we pump into ourselves, and children, is downright insane at times. It's a useful cause as far I'm concerned, and if her and Barack want to hammer down a rack of ribs who the hell cares? With all the other things out there it's mind-numbing that somehow this is even a topic of discussion at a national level.

Has a first lady-driven cause ever gotten any traction, though? Cripes, has any of the government-required PSAs created any tangible benefit?