On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:48 -0600, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > PJ wrote: > > Shawn McKenzie wrote: > >> PJ wrote: > >> > >>> Daniel Brown wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:42, PJ <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Right on. Good comments. > >>>>> No offense taken and none intended. > >>>>> I am enoying the list and will continue to participate, if i may. > >>>>> I have learned a great deal already and really do appreciate the help. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> So you mentioned your involvement in television production and > >>>> briefly touched on cooking shows and such.... what brought you into > >>>> the insanity of web programming? New stage in life, or specifically > >>>> to work on your daughter's site? > >>>> > >>> Her necessity and my curiosity coupled with an interesting challenge. :-) > >>> After this, there's the other site http://www.chiccantine.com - that's > >>> just a start for now... we're aiming for a really great site on food > >>> that will be instuctional as well as enlightening for all to learn how > >>> to "really" deal with great food - what it is all "really" about take a > >>> look at the link below the signature. You might learn something about > >>> vanilla. > >>> BTW, we'll be looking for great programmers and designers who will want > >>> to participate in the "adventure" (as that is what it will be) - we'll > >>> surely be doing this as a non-profit thing and hope to develop something > >>> profitable along the way. The startup will require dedication and some > >>> time with the hope of worthwhile earnings once things are rolling. > >>> Requirements are: love of food (the real, natural stuff), a hate for > >>> Monsanto, corn > >>> > >> What? Monsanto makes great weed killers and what the hell is wrong with > >> corn?!?! Have you seriously never roated a cob in the husk over a wood > >> fire and then submerged the cob into a vat of melted butter? Plus pigs, > >> cows and chickens eat it. Mmmm... > >> > > Ooooh, boy.... now this is really serious... >:o > > I think your ignorance will be forgiven, maybe! And this is not meant > > disparagingly but you'd better find out about Monsanto and corn and how > > they are probably the greatest destructors of the the environment and > > our own bodies? Google it and get a hold of some books, like try Michael > > Pollan; do you have any idea of what Monsanto does and to whom and how? > > Do you know how corn is destroying whole economies of countries? Corn is > > sweeping continents because of human greed - it is being used to create > > all sorts of artificial food ingredients and even to produce petrol > > (oil) substitutes... even your own body is probably so full of corn > > derivatives that it is surprising that you haven't turned into a corn > > cob by now -- especially if you are not paying attention, and I mean > > great attention, to what you eat... like MacDos and pre-packaged > > prepared foods... just think for a minute: according to the current > > business models in just about everything including and especially the > > food industry... how do you think they boost their profits... certainly > > not by raising prices... nooooooh, that would not be cool... they just > > downgrade the quality of the ingredients and the workers so that if > > ;you are not eating shit by the time it gets to your enteron (that is a > > word - one that Enron paid some 6 million smackers fo an agency and then > > found out that that is the the entire digestive tract right from one > > input hole to the output hole) :-D , it is a miracle.... > > glad to have this opportunity to rile - that is exactly the kind of > > thing that we want to do with the site that we are starting to > > develop... to destroy ignorance about food - to enllighten, inform and > > teach to have a greater society of well fed and healthy individuals... > > don't foget, you are what you eat - the name escapes me at the moment, > > but it was a great French chef of the 18th century who said that... > > I could go on at great length on that subject... but I have to goet some > > work done... > > Not ignorance but indifference to some of what you shout :-) > > I don't enjoy/eat macdonalds or other fast food and use pre-packaged > stuff on rare occasion. We buy fresh ingredients from local meat > markets/farmers markets etc. This includes corn. Corn is yummy, > chickens, pigs and cows eat corn and chickens, pigs and cows are yummy! > Hell, cornbread is yummy! > > I do however cringe at the practice of burning our food in internal > combustion engines. > > As for monsanto, I don't know much about them, but I know they have many > different products/businesses. The only one I use is roundup (I think > this is monsanto). It's great to kill the weeds in the cracks in the > driveway and sidewalks. Also, if it's not windy I use it in the mulched > flower beds and sometimes in the areas filled with river rocks. > > I guess I should read more about it. Did this come about before or > after wal-mart started ruining the planet? What about the communists > contaminating our precious bodily fluids? > > Whatever you do, please, please, please, for the love of all that is > holy, please, do not vilify potatoes! ...or the Irish :-) > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > Whilst we're on the subject, what about cows, pigs and sheep, which are the biggest contributors to global warming through their, erm, gases? Global warming is a huge problem, so I call upon all vegetarians to eat as much meat as possible to rectify this problem! ;) Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
