[Osx-nutters] Re: Scientists Trying to "Cure " Gay Sheep Told To Back Off

[LuKreme]

On 5-Jan-2007, at 20:15, David Cake wrote:
> At 7:06 PM +0000 5/1/07, Matt Johnston wrote:
>>
>> You know....I've got zero respect for PETA and I'm losing all  
>> interest in Greenpeace.
>
> 	Yes, and already lost.
> 	The Golden Rice issue was the one that finally made me give up  
> GreenPeace entirely.

My first real experience with a eco group was in the 1980's when I  
was in school at UCSC and CalPirg mounted a campaign to eliminate the  
foam containers they gave out in the cafeteria because of concerns  
over CFCs.  A valid concern, and it was a going thing at the time,  
with pressure being brought to bare on the various fast food chains  
as well.

I was suspicious when the petition did not, in point of fact, mention  
CFCs.  I should have mad more of an issue about it because, as it  
turned out, the foam containers the University used where NOT made  
with CFCs.  So we ended up with paper plates and tin-foil for take  
out food from the cafeteria, at a cost that was more than ten times  
the cost of the foam containers.  The following year, they eliminated  
the option of taking food from the cafeteria because the heavy duty  
paper plates and foil cost more than the actual food.

Go CalPrig.

The next experience was with CoPrig coming to the door asking me to  
sign a petition against irradiated foods, claiming that the WHO  
called irradiation "a danger to the world's health and safety".  The  
petitioner was rather surprised when I told him that what the WHO  
actually said was that irradiation was "the most important advance in  
food safety since pasteurization".  The liars on the left seem to  
think that irradiation has some mystical and undetectable effect on  
food that is harmful to humans, or they manufacture 'evidence'.   
Meanwhile, we get deadly outbreaks of E Coli and millions of cases of  
food poising every year because food production is not protected.

The people on the fringes are all lying scum, whether they are on the  
right or the left.

What is amusing (no, not really) is that many of the fervent  
arguments against irradiationa re EXACTLY the arguments used against  
Pasteurization. Sorta like the fundies arguments against gay marriage  
are exactly the same as the fundie bigots arguments against  
interracial marriage.

-- 
Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The  
One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.