*treading carefully*

Think about it – by the logic you presented the government could control what food we decide to eat… as they have currently tried to do in the UK with the proposed ‘butter ban’.

What if the US government decided to ban or limit your intake of saturated fat because it was ‘bad’ for you?

Tread carefully with good intentions MC, unintended consequences run amok more often than not without a strong sense of right and wrong fueling the decision.

MC, I agree quality meats exist out there. They are just hard to find. I guess a better way to say this would be, I am looking to STOP all of the fatal ingredients being served, Especially in Public schools. Mcd’s and T bell (and the like) also. (THIS IS MY SECOND CAREER GOAL.)

I will stop the industries from profiting in the wrong as well as teach others correct nutrition along the way!

And now, I want to watch this Dmitry Orlov video I’ve been putting off ( =

Unless the people are convinced to buy more expensive, higher quality meat, restaurants or stores aren’t going to stock it.

And the FDA aren’t idiots. They know very well the shitty food out there. They’re not going to suddenly start caring about people’s health any time soon. Unless they can make money off it, of course.

I take back my previous comment that people always follow without question. I do so as I dont wish for it to be confused with me beliveing that thought is impossible. I have to disagree with this comment, there is a lot to convince people of. To convince is to firm belief through use of evidence. We can spend a hell of a lot of time attempting to convince people. However we can only suceed if those who we are attempting to convince make use of their rational mind. I do not in anyway accept people to choose faith. To choose faith implies acceptance of belief without reason.To continue to hold beliefs even after evidence has been presented to refute them, in my opinion is even worse. It implies unwavering faith irrespective of reality.

Unfortunately this is what current indoctrination in all fields results in and what we, the rational thinkers have to deal with (because these people are a part of reality despite them thinking they can live outside of it). But hey you can’t force a mind, it has to be consciously chosen. Still my objective value is to search for truth and so I’ll follow whichever path provides me with the relevant tools to do so (i.e. grant funded PhD) however I’ll always be flying the flag of my integrity high and letting ‘the man’ know where he can stick it if he stands in my way.

I want QUALITY meat and produce in our stores / restaurants.

Looks like I’ll be working for the FDA. After all, someone has to regulate ( =

Look at cigarettes. The government knows they’re bad for you, and so do people, but you still have people smoking. The government can only put an age limit on those so you can’t sell them to minors, but other then that, they’re never going to ban cigarettes as long as a corporation exists that stands to make millions or billions of dollars.

The influence of corporations over the government and scientists is bigger then many might think. The biggest difference we can make is with our food choices. You can’t convince the government cause the government stands to profit. You can however, convince the people.

I’d like to hope the gov’t can change. You don’t think they could be influenced, to change?