Reg,

Regular table salt often contains anti-caking agents (like sodium ferrocyanide or calcium silicate), which are synthetic additives. These could further disqualify a product from being labeled as “organic.” But even if unrefined sea salt is used, it can never be labeled 100% Organic…..salt is a mineral so can never be called an organic compo…

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Regular table salt often contains anti-caking agents (like sodium ferrocyanide or calcium silicate), which are synthetic additives. These could further disqualify a product from being labeled as “organic.” But even if unrefined sea salt is used, it can never be labeled 100% Organic…..salt is a mineral so can never be called an organic compound.

Jake,

Where do you come down on organic food v non?

Refer back to my previous statements. If it is Carbon-based, as detected by Dr. “Bones” McCoy’s Tri-Corder, it is Organic, so everybody is automatically going Organic without even thinking about it.

Off the top of my head, about the only food item people consume on a regular basis that is…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Women’s bodies are moralized more than men’s, study finds.

Thank you for posting this.  I haven’t seen it anywhere else, and it’s enabled me to answer a number of long-standing questions in research on morality.  Namely, about moral purity, “harmless harms”, and “moral dumbfounding”.

Moral purity means obser…[Read more]

Enco,

Where do you come down on organic food v non?

That sunday school video about evil/stupidity is food for thought. Reg threw one right down the middle. For Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor who opposed the Nazis, and made a distinction between evil and stupidity, stupidity was more dangerous than evil. One can be stupid and yet…[Read more]

Reg,

Bierce had some real doozies that could have added comic relief to Webster’s work if they were contemporaries, as well as some things that wouldn’t pass muster with either standards of his day or now.

Reg,

The correspondance Theory of Truth should be the only governing principle for any government document, curricula, or media. You can use any word, as long as it corresponds to something real.

“Transgendered” can stay, but a sex-neutral “birthing person” will have to wait until there are successful ovary and womb transplants.…[Read more]

@TheEncogitationer  – Your descriptions of the various foods are good. I was reminded of Ambrose Bierce’s “The Devil’s Dictionary” which I dip into on occasion. Here.

@Unapologetic – What are freedom freckle parties?

During COVID many  people who “did their own research” decided it was a great idea to have parties so that they could get COVID and would then be able to build up their own natural immunity to the virus. As it transpired many of them  only gate-crashed Heaven. You know, religious freedom and all t…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

More thoughts on food:

* There are only two kinds of fish: “Wild-Caught” and “Son-of-Wild-Caught” a.k.a. aquaculture-raised. Of the two, “Son-of-Wild-Caught” is more likely to be better, since at least in principle it can be isolated from the Mercury, Lead, and microplastics that the “Wild-Caught” eat.

* Food is a process,…[Read more]