Michael, I don't want to fight with you, so I think we should probably just not talk about these things anymore. I have no idea why you're calling me a hypocrite, though, and if you reread all your recent posts I think you will find them very critical against liberal sources of information.
I did not understand until today what the connection between the environment and medicines for children in Mongolia was, but now I understand it is refrigeration. I can only say that we way overuse refrigeration, but it should always be available for medicines, which are incidentally rapidly being developed to not require refrigeration. Refrigeration has been available only a tiny fraction of the time humans have been on earth, and has done great harm. If we shopped more frequently, purchased foods grown closer to home, ate lower on the food chain and adults ate fewer dairy products, which have no known necessary benefit for adults anyway, we would need far less refrigeration. I would say here that the big American meat/dairy/food manufacturing industry lobbies are behind the fight to keep ecologically unsound refrigerators working--so they can sell more processed foods. The food poisoning issue, which you would probably bring up, is very closely related to really filthy meat-and-poultry processing practices in America than to refrigeration. There is a huge lobby to make sure legislation that would produce safer meat and poultry is NOT voted in. More wonders of American agriculture or something!!
I would suggest you read the classic "Diet for a Small Planet" if you want to find out more about how we can grow foods and eat them without damaging the earth, and have plenty of food for everyone, NATURALLY.
Your only reply to me since Father Terrence's remarks was just full of url's, as I recall. I don't really consider that a response in the same way that something you write from your own thoughts and feelings would be.
Here is a url on the buffalo slaughter. I am including it because of the commment in that last url of yours that the fact that the American cattle industry was booming but the buffalo had died out was proof of the value of a free market system. Millions of buffalo were actually systematically slaughtered by the U.S. Army,--I believe it was 15,000,000 but I cannot find that article so I am not sure--so the remaining Indians would starve to death deprived of a main food source. Buffalo are STILL being slaughtered by the U.S. government!
horseworld.com
I'm not saying that you could not dispute this somehow with your own links. I am just saying that throwing url's back and forth doesn't seem to lead to much but more arguing.
Gee, I missed the fight about welfare. I think it's a very important thing to discuss, so that is too bad. The connection with what we were talking about--the environment--is one I made because I said I believed your primary underlying political belief is paying less taxes. Correct me if I'm wrong. Welfare is another issue where how much taxes we pay, or what we pay them for, is underlying our other beliefs. This goes back to what I was saying about primary motivators last week or something. You and I could argue forever about the environment, but if I understand that mostly you want to pay less taxes, maybe we could talk about how to do that AND save the environment, which would make more sense in a problem-solving way.
I hope all that makes my feelings more clear. As I said at the beginning, maybe we should just stop talking about these issues. |
