While not trying to pull a "no true scotsman", most scientists who actually care about science can't be bought.
Yes but they can be ignored, their findings discredited or they are ridiculed into silence by their peers.
Look how long it took one man to get his findings heard on helicobacter pylori? He was ridiculed for a long time until his findings were backed up by other scientists.
So most people who are actually experts are saying what is correct according to current knowledge.
"Current knowledge" comes from what sources?
Many nutritional substances are stable and thus survive for a long time.
Do we want them to merely "survive" and be barely alive when we consume them?
Artificially ripening fruit will change the sugar-starch ratio just like actual ripening, but I don't think it changes much of the nutritional value outside of that.
Do you honestly believe that a money hungry system is worried about nutrition? All they care about is shelf life and the fact that what they sell you won't kill you immediately. They can't be sued that way.
Which minerals are in the fruit depends both on the soil and the plant itself and doesn't change a lot between organic and conventional agriculture if you take those thing into consideration.
If you grow crops in dead soil, you have dead produce. If you use artificial fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides on everything...how do you suppose that the population is not going to suffer from ingesting these chemicals? Polluted water and air also contribute to the end product being barely fit for human consumption. Everything that sustains life on this planet has been interfered with...polluted by greedy men.
Dairy allergy is common in nearly all people on Earth, and that's partly due to our interference of keeping milk producing cattle
. Depending om milk for nutrition has made the milk-drinking people develop the necessary process for processing lactose. In countries with low milk consumption you also see a high lactose intolerance. It's not due to unnatural chemicals or anything, just due to small scale evolution.
Do you remember a time when milk had cream on top? My Dad used to steal the cream for his coffee. If he were alive today, there is no cream to steal.
Everything is so de-natured by having the living organisms burned to death that nothing retains its health giving properties any more. Even honey....the only product on the planet that never spoils is heat treated so that it won't 'candy'. All you need to do is stand it in hot water for a few minutes and it will become liquid again.
I try to buy raw honey but it is hard to get if you don't know an apiarist.
I would like to buy raw milk too but we are not allowed. Surely it should be up to consumers to decide if they want to take the risk for the health benefits. How hard is it to test for bad bacteria?
I eat a mix of organic and conventional food since that's what I can afford. The nutritional value doesn't vary, just the environmental impact. If the plant requires a lot of pestices (like grapes, bellpeppers and potatoes) then I will buy it organic. If I could, I would buy GMO instead of conventional, but the EU has basically banned GMOs.
How do you rid the world of what is already out there? The genie is out of the bottle.
Certified organic produce is beyond the budget of most low income people. That is a travesty when junk food is all they can afford.
For the "western" world fast food is to blame, really. You can eat healthy and still eat conventional or GMO.
Fast food does not have to be unhealthy. No food does, that is the point.
They could sell healthy fast food but most people today are hooked on the junk and wonder why they are obese and feel awful every day. Soda drinks are laced with abundant amounts of sugar. If a can of Coke contains 16 teaspoons of sugar, don't you have to ask why? Who would put 16 teaspoons of sugar in a cup of coffee? Sugar is addictive...so is caffeine....regular customers guaranteed...like junkies turning up to their 'pusher' for their next hit.
Covering up is good during the worst hours, but a low sun factor is enough during the regular hours. I had a vitamin D deficiency due to mostly staying inside and being a vegan, which gives you little vitamin D from the food (now I'm a vegetarian who goes outside more!).
Good for you.
If more people knew about Vit D and how it protects from cancer, they would all be out in the sun, unshowered (natural oils in tact on their skin) and expose their bodies to early or late sunshine. (Never of course in the middle of the day. Short rays burn)
Soap is good since it kills bacteria and washes away dirt.
We have good bacteria on our skin too. This obsession we have with "germs" today is responsible for immune systems never building up natural immunity. Hand sanitizers, disinfectant sprays etc, over-prescription of anti-biotics etc, kill the good guys along with the bad. In many instances the good bacteria keep the bad in check.
The rise is cases of asthma, especially among children, is thought to be related to the over use of germ killers in the home. Poor imune response results in many allergens triggering the problem.
Sadly, most products used to clean the skin tend to make you dry. I do use moisturising cream, but I get dried out quite easily, even without soap. My shampoo is 100% organic and natural, though, so I don't need to use conditioner, despite having long hair. At least here it's many small businesses that make hygiene products.
It isn't the small businesses that you have to worry about...it's the big fellas.
What did people do for the thousands of years before soap became popular? They just used water.
Too conspiracy-ish for me.
LOL. You know that conspiracy theories are roundly discredited by most people. But didn't you ever wonder if any of them...or even some of them might be true? No one wants to believe they are.....but you have to wonder if, in amongst the obvious fake ones, that there are some true ones as well, carefully concealed to make them appear like the rest?
It's a bit like "rent a crowd" when peaceful public demonstrations turn violent. Have you ever wondered where these trouble makers come from? It turns the protest into a 'shamozzle' and the cause of the protest and the protesters lose credibility. Its an old trick....like doing an act of violence on one's own people and blaming the enemy. It's sure to cause public outrage and gain lots of support for the "retaliation" that must follow.
We're making a choice in a market that provides us with many options. If you skip meat you can afford to buy more organic products even on a low budget! (Not that I'm pro-capitalism, because capitalism is the #1 enemy of our environment)
Some people don't get the option to skip anything. Financially, they are stuck in the junk food cycle, with nowhere else to go. There is no real excuse for that.
Oh I do believe man can fix it! If man cannot fix it, then man will die out and thus fix the problems by disappearing. So we either fix the problem or the problem will "fix" us.
How true. But has man demonstrated the will to do anything that will cost him something and rob him of his profit?
The earth is drowning in its own waste, yet it appears to be somebody else's job to clean it up. Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of kilometers of ocean are clogged with plastic waste?
"Estimates of size range from 700,000 square kilometres (270,000 sq mi) to more than 15,000,000 square kilometres (5,800,000 sq mi) (0.41% to 8.1% of the size of the Pacific Ocean), or, in some media reports, up to "twice the size of the continental United States"
From
Great Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It kills marine creatures by the thousands every day, yet no one seems to want to do anything about it. No one is reducing their plastic production or consumption, so it continues to grow. :ignore:
Trust man to fix the problem?...I don't think so.
