Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (26922)	12/27/2007 9:30:59 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217822

"Many people seem to think that plants are our friends." The first thing the hunter gatherers didn once they stop walking for food was to chop the trees down. For wood for shelter. For open land for plants ad trying to keep away the plant he didn't eat -called weed. Weeds need to be weeded out. Any good plant doesn't face extinction. Any good animal is not endangered. Only the useless animals and plants are endagered. Because they do not fulfill a need. It is a law of the nature. The useless man: Neaderthal, Cro Magnon all were weeded out. We, the Homo Sapiens Sapiens, are in charge of this thing here and we will make sure that the Tiger shrimp the salmon are well kept. The good we will not only protect: we enhance they capability of surviving via genetic engineering. A lot of land is devoted to useless plants and those do not deserve to be here and need to be cut down and destroyed. The animals which are usefull for entertainment value, will be kept for their entertainment value in zoos and natural parks. Spiders, scorpions, cockroaches, cobras, carriers of sickness: anopheles mosquitoes, Aedes egypt or carriers of river blindness and other danegerous viruses (Ebola, Lassa Bird Flu)must be destroyed without pity. Noah made a mistake and took a lot of useless beings. Now we will do a Noah's Arch kind pof thing, but leave out the useless and dangerous.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (26922)	12/27/2007 9:46:30 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 217822

Some of the healthiest plant parts -- berries, for example -- are evolved to be eaten, so the seeds can be spread. Not that all berries are human-friendly, but birds don't seem to mind. The healthiest places for humans to forage are the perimeters of the local markets. That's where they put the produce and the meat and other fresh foods. In Japan, I recently read, there are new markets which sell only the fresh foods, no processed foods. It's an interesting trend. Compare and contrast with the local WalMart which sells only industrial foods. There are Super WalMarts which sell fresh food, as well, but every WalMart sells industrial foods (that's what I call highly processed "food"). (Even so-called "health food" stores and "natural food" stores sell an awful lot of heavily processed "food"). What would the world be like if we all transitioned (back) to fresh food? How would the global economy be affected? Fresh melons, yes, but they are shipped from Brazil or Israel, burning a lot of oil. But then, the ship/plane goes both ways so has to carry something, no? And fill up the hold? Hmmm. Oh, by the way, one of the things I am supposed to eat is lamb, preferably from Australia or New Zealand. Don't gloat.