Reply #25: Robble Robble Robble. [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

No, I didn't accuse you of slinging shit, actually. I *did* accuse you of tossing around red herrings, which you have kindly provided another stunning example of, above.

I quoted one source, which you claim to be highly biased. You also, apparently, have an axe to grind against Consumer Reports. So we know at least some of the sources you don't trust. I'm not sure what sources you consider unbiased- so why don't you provide some?

And I don't mean the link you posted to the mayo clinic; the one with the first sentence that reads: "Organic baby food can limit your baby's exposure to pesticides and other potential contaminants in foods."

Hardly a wholesale indictment of the concept of organic food, and a statement which is, essentially, the argument I made in the first post. Not that pesticides are evil, not that man-made chemicals are bad, not that organic growth methods can't pose problems too- just that, whenever possible, decreasing the accumulated load of things like pesticides in our foods seems like a fairly obvious good idea for a lot of us.

But you know what? Like I said, if you want to suck down an frosty mug of roundup every morning, I don't really give a shit. Nothing could make me even remotely interested in advising you about your diet, and likewise, nothing you could say is going to make me go "Hmmm. Gee, you know, I think I'm going to go out of my way to increase the amount of pesticides I put in my body"


Got that? NOTHING. I don't care what you put on the end of your fork, and I'll be damned if after my many, many decades on this planet I'll let some jabbering tasmanian devil with god-knows-what for an agenda tell me what to put on mine.

Dig? So, go ahead, huff and puff and complain (or, if you're feeling really frisky, contribute some 'unbiased' data, please. With links), you're still not changing my mind. Ever. Period. I guess that makes me Jerry Falwell, or Pol Pot, or Dutch Elm Disease, or something.