tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post7871881015789729541..comments2024-01-06T14:47:27.687+00:00Comments on Susan Price's 'Nennius' Blog: Okay, This Makes Me Mad...Susan Pricehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-77377563223675816792013-10-21T11:22:20.462+01:002013-10-21T11:22:20.462+01:00Can't et an allotment here, alas. My balcony g...Can't et an allotment here, alas. My balcony garden wouldn't stretch to homegrown fruit, though I did have strawberries for a while(five per season. ;-D). I agree about staying away from processed food, as much as possible, and when I have a cake it's a homemade one. I've even made my own pasta now and then. But it's nice to have a few tins of beans, chick peas, tomatoes, etc, for those nights you come home late and exhausted and want to throw together a soup or a pasta sauce.<br /><br />I buy fruit in season, refusing to buy imported. Still, this is a big continent and if you live in Melbourne and want to get tropical fruit in summer, it has to come from Queensland. Pineapples just don't grow don't south.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-46837307965333676672013-10-20T19:46:58.931+01:002013-10-20T19:46:58.931+01:00Variations on that quote have probably been attrib...Variations on that quote have probably been attributed to a lot of people, but I always thought it was Mark Twain who said, "Nobody ever lost money by underestimating public taste." You only have to look around to see how right the man (or someone else) was.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-16615851482921503302013-10-20T19:09:24.865+01:002013-10-20T19:09:24.865+01:00Home grown taste better too! We've been doing ...Home grown taste better too! We've been doing it for ages. There's even a corner shop on the Isle of Man which allows people to place their excess on show for sale! Good idea. However, most people want the toxic sprayed, waxed and genetically modded stuff that supermarkets put on their exhibition shelves.<br /><br />I think the politicians probably suffer from a combination of downright corruption in some cases and basic ignorance of scientific issues on the other.<br /><br />I live in Switzerland (non EU) and we can buy produce here that is 'banned' in the EU. We get a mag regularly called 'pro specia rare' for the seeds we plant.<br /><br />Who was the American magnate who said 'No one ever went broke underestimating the taste and intelligence of the public'?<br /><br />ManxliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-14817266327689143862013-10-19T15:16:39.640+01:002013-10-19T15:16:39.640+01:00You can grow a phenomenal amount in even a small s...You can grow a phenomenal amount in even a small space; and some things, like chard and beetroot can even be quite decorative in a border. strawberries and mint and even cherry tomatoes can look terrific in a hanging basket ... madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-330388474983727452013-10-19T13:07:42.680+01:002013-10-19T13:07:42.680+01:00This makes me mad too, Sue. My policy has always b...This makes me mad too, Sue. My policy has always been that the closer a food is to its natural state the better it is for you, so I don't eat any processed stuff but cook from basic ingredients, and never eat cakes/puddings/biscuits at all except in social situations (I'm only human!) Food manufacturers love salt and sugar because they're preservatives and addictive, which is a double cash-back situation. Governments love food manufacturers because they've mostly got their sticky little fingers in the pie. I hope we'll see health warnings on processed foods like on tobacco products in the end though, as the evidence mounts upJenny Alexanderhttp://jenalexanderbooks.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-45856267261463275332013-10-19T12:16:59.692+01:002013-10-19T12:16:59.692+01:00Thank you for all your comments - and Sue, thank y...Thank you for all your comments - and Sue, thank you for tweeting.<br /><br />Karen - I am seriously thinking of growing some raspberries, blackberries etc in my small garden next year - if I ever get the garden sorted out! I couldn't keep up with it while my parents were ill, and it went feral - and then after they died, I didn't have the heart for a couple more years. But I have built a tower of strawberries!<br /><br />Marc - agree so much with all you say, and thank you for adding information and links.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-78144732348201549772013-10-19T11:49:46.991+01:002013-10-19T11:49:46.991+01:00Canadian CBC aired an excellent documentary just t...Canadian CBC aired an excellent documentary just two weeks ago on "The Secrets of Sugar": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaYa0AB8TQ<br /><br />It shows how the sugar industry deliberately concealed the health risks known to them already back in the 70s.<br /><br />Sounds like tobacco tactics?<br /><br />Sounds like some historically unprecedented legal and financial claims?<br /><br />Sounds like Coca Cola will only be allowed to advertise mineral water at Olympic Games and soccer world cups?<br /><br />I think so.<br /><br />Ever wondered why "life-style" diseases started spreading only once sugar consumption surpassed the metabolically safe levels of max. 50g/day (acc. to WHO) back in 1900, and why they exploded since sugar is found in almost every product? (http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/Fructose/Fructose.html).<br /><br />Ever wondered why ADHD became the number one performance killer in our schools? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21904085<br /><br />Ever wondered why insulin-dependent forms of cancer are on the rise? http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/full/502181a.html<br /><br />Because sugar and HFCS both contain fructose, which messes up the whole metabolic system.<br /><br />Evolutionarily, it was meant as a fruity calorie boost once a year prior to winter.<br /><br />Today, it's the all-year number one calorie source in the US, and on the rise worldwide.<br /><br />Something went wrong.<br /><br />Something has to change.<br /><br />As a first step, the EU must withdraw their "health claim" and issue a "health warning" of fructose and sugar in general.<br /><br />Only then will we be back on the right track.<br /><br />Please spread the word.Marc Sandersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-59304230882191537782013-10-19T09:27:24.614+01:002013-10-19T09:27:24.614+01:00Next step is to get an allotment Sue! Then you can...Next step is to get an allotment Sue! Then you can eat produce which hasn't travelled a zillion miles and been grown out of season, thus adding to all the planet's other problems, and which is fresh as opposed to having been treated with god-knows-what to lengthen it's shelf life to weeks rather than days, and which is organic rather than containing all sorts of nasty pesticides which aren't good either for you or the planet and it's essential bug life!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8290574097841845967.post-75061817686397848032013-10-19T04:46:06.232+01:002013-10-19T04:46:06.232+01:00I've tweeted this post. I can understand your ...I've tweeted this post. I can understand your feelings about this. Thank heaven we haven't had tobacco advertising here in years, apart from sports events and I think that has been dealt with. There was a book called Merchants of Death I read many years ago, which told of an Asian country which objected to ads aimed at children and marketing to them by a big US tobacco company, which came down on them hard, something about interfering with their business; the government had to give in. Recently, in Australia, where I live, there was a huge row with the tobacco industry over plain packaging, but our Labor government won. They first argued hat it wouldn't make any difference and then that it was about interfering with their business. But in Oz, cigarettes are now sold from behind a wooden door at the counter and they have plain olive packaging and horrible images on them. Thank heaven it went through before the last election, because we are now stuck with a conservative government that will probably act like yours(they're already working on destroying a pollution tax) because they only care about business. Let's hope they don't find out about that gagging law!Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com