Category: Food nannies

Organic Chemistry Sounds Scary

As in the case of 4 methyl-cyclohexane methanol, organic chemistry sounds really really scary.
Here’s a fine exercise for your favorite Chemophobe, similar to the annual Thangsgiving Dinner list that is put out by the American Council on science and Health.
This time just a great discussion by an Australian chem teacher.
http://acsh.org/2014/01/natural-foods-chemicals-right-think/

Henry I. Miller and Greg Conko–Stop the Idiocy

Opposition to Genetic Modification (GM) or genetically engineered (GE) food crops has developed an undeserved status as a priority in the enviro fanatics world, considering that they are preventing important food improvements.
The anti GM GE movement is causing great harm.
Continue reading Henry I. Miller and Greg Conko–Stop the Idiocy

The Antibiotic Panicmongers

Let’s get back to the real world, if a cow or a pig is treated with an antibiotic, and then the pig or cow is slaughtered for meat,
GUESS WHAT, the antibiotic is not in the meat, since it is digested as just another chemical.
Continue reading The Antibiotic Panicmongers

Bloomberg's Legacy

Tevi Troy, generally a sensible man and prolific writer on public issues, takes on a discussion of Mayor and professional nanny, Michael Bloomberg.
Last week I discussed this Medici of the modern age, who spent more than 600 million of his own money to facilitate and inflate and flaunt his mayoralty, in violation of the spirit if not the letter of American Law and Government.
We don’t elect monarchs or even Dukes or Counts here. He got away with his behavior and extravagance because he was rich, worth in the range of 30 billion adn New Yorkers and the New York press do love to kiss up to rich guys with big egos.
http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_1_bloomberg.html

Money, Bloomberg and the Courtesans of the NYT

This NYT article about the Bloomberg Plutocracy misses the point, but the NYT often misses the point.
Bloomberg is the ruling class elite on steroids, imposing his preferences by playing the rich bull in the china shop.
Funny, with all this flattery in the NYT piece, no mention of the prolonged hardships of the people devastated by Sandy who were ignored while Bloomberg pursued his aesthetic obsessions and meddling pretenses.
He is or was like a Medici in old Florence, but he was a Mayor in a country that is supposed to be a republic with a limited government by the consent of the people. His use of personal funds to exaggerate the role of the Mayor is misconduct in office. Someone should bring him up on charges. What he did is like what happens in Banana Republics and Oligarchies.
Constitutional Republics, recommended by Aristotle, Locke and certainly our founders, are supposed to be societies with a proper environment for the citizen, decadence follows a regime like created by Bloomberg. Nanny states are not a proper place for human development, happiness, development, accomplishment and liberty.
I am disgusted to read this devotional piece by the NYT, but they should really dedicate a chapel for such an icon, candles and incense and such would be right, Bloomberg would finance the thing out of petty cash.
I cannot comprehend how we came to this, encomiums for demogogues with big bank accounts. In America?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/30/nyregion/cost-of-being-mayor-650-million-if-hes-rich.html?_r=1&
The NYT thinks oligarchies/plutarchies are charming?
Marx was a medievalist in outlook. So is Bloomberg, so are the ruling class elites described and condemned so insightfully by Angelo Codevilla.
The NYT is a medievalist elitist journal, and certainly committed to a statist tyranny of elites. All, of course, intended to take care of us properly, and show us how to live and what to think.
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution

Men's Health Morons

Please don’t choke when you read this nonsense.
You should be reminded that this is what appears in these silly grocery store and book store mags all the time.
Usually with pics of well defined boooodies.
http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/health/for-heart-health-steer-clear-of-fizzy-medicines-20131230
There is no point in explaining why the premise of the article is stupid–how does one establish the magnitude of stupid when there is no measure of stupid in the casual health press–salt is a threat to 30 year old exercise freaks? I don’t think so. Old guys with congestive heart failure or kidney disease–maybe.