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From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 11:12 Mxsmanic wrote: > > Earl Evleth writes: > > > Where do you get corn tortillas in Paris? > > I haven't paid much attention. I just buy tortillas, without checking to see > if they are wheat or corn flour. Most of them are probably wheat. > The corn ones are better for you since they don't need the saturated fat. Flour tortillas have a lot of fat in them. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 11:13 Mxsmanic wrote: > > Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > > > It's cheap enough that they almost can make it into alcohol or > > biodiesel and use it in your car. > > It's not going through two animal bodies first in that case. > Do you think it takes the same amount of energy for you to ride your bike ten miles as it does to drive a four thousand point SUV ten miles? -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 11:13 Mxsmanic wrote: > > Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > > > Food is so cheap, that farmers can't even afford to make more of > > it, so government provide price supports. > > There's a huge difference between what farmers are paid for the food they > grow, and what consumers must pay to buy food. > While this is true, perhaps you could go buy your wheat from Farmer Bob. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 11:21 Mxsmanic wrote: > > Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) writes: > > > There's no doubt that there are people on this earth who are baring > > making it food wise. Some are starving. But the issue was first > > world "poor" who often have cell phones, high speed internet, seven > > Showtimes, three HBOs and drive cars around rather than walking or > > riding a bike. My assumption is that they would give those things > > up if they were actually starving, and since they are often > > overweight, the argument that they are starving is silly. > > They are not starving; they are malnourished. > While that may be true, whose fault is that? > That's the difference between > Third World and First World. But heart disease and diabetes can kill you just > as surely as starvation. > Something invariably does. > And First-World poor people do not necessarily have all the things you > describe. Even if they do, these things are often cheaper than food. A cell > phone might cost only $30 a month, compared to hundreds of dollars per month > to feed just one person. > But we are talking about not what you can spend on food but what you need to spend on food to get proper nutrition. -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said.
From: Bill Bonde {Colourless green ideas don't sleep furiously) on 31 Jan 2010 11:25
Magda wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:53:48 +0000, in rec.travel.europe, "Bill Bonde {Colourless green > ideas don't sleep furiously)" <tribuyltinafpant(a)yahoo.co.uk> arranged some electrons, so > they looked like this: > > ... You sound like you may have an eating disorder. Someone who is "all > ... skin and bones" and then swears off a food that caused them to > ... "gain[] a pound" is a bit off. > > I was ten years old, stupid. Your mother must be utterly ashamed of having produced such a > brainless child. > I'm aware you were ten. I'm also aware that you swore off *for life* a food product that caused you to "gain a pound". -- "Gonna take a sedimental journey", what Old Man River actually said. |