You are what you eat, America

[O_G]

amazing that people get so upset when someone points out that the majority of the food in this country is terrible for you, and heavily subsidized.

Don't expect much rationality. There are a few trolls who make a hobby of pooing in my topics.

[OSD#15]

^^This. He's like a yapper dog. Dog looks out the window, sees people jogging, starts barking its head off. You look out the window, see it's just people jogging, attempt to return to watching TV. Dog can't understand why you aren't also freaking the hell out that there are people jogging outside, barks louder and crazier, and bounces off your repeatedly head while you're trying to watch TV. You try to ignore it, but eventually it's so annoying that you start yelling at it to shut the **** up. Then the dog bites you. /story

Exactly. At least my idiot dog is cute so I put up with it.

[O_G]

^^This. He's like a yapper dog. Dog looks out the window, sees people jogging, starts barking its head off. You look out the window, see it's just people jogging, attempt to return to watching TV. Dog can't understand why you aren't also freaking the hell out that there are people jogging outside, barks louder and crazier, and bounces off your repeatedly head while you're trying to watch TV. You try to ignore it, but eventually it's so annoying that you start yelling at it to shut the **** up. Then the dog bites you. /story

Incompetent hypocrisy should at least be kept brief. When you've contributed anything to this topic that even comes close to the amount of useful information I've posted in it, then you will be on your way toward earning the right to criticize. And, if you do, hopefully you'll figure out how to do it in an intelligent way.

[TheGreenspanator]

Ok I'll try to keep my incompetence and lack of intelligence brief from now on. Don't want to bring down you supergenius types with my blathering.

Sent from my shoe phone

[lipprandt35]

Wow! 0_G is using big boy words.
He must have some of that "fancy book learnin".

P.S. your threads suck.

[OSD#15]

Incompetent hypocrisy should at least be kept brief. When you've contributed anything to this topic that even comes close to the amount of useful information I've posted in it, then you will be on your way toward earning the right to criticize. And, if you do, hopefully you'll figure out how to do it in an intelligent way.

Again, why did you join a CAR forum to never, not once, post about cars? Oh, that's right, you came here to copypasta and use big words to inform us all of your bull**** conspiracy theories. Go join NP boards and let us get back to poop threads and cat dances.

[zukiphile]

Meh, after living in China for about a year, for the third time in my life, I'm experiencing an all-too-familiar feeling: a fear of eating anything and an overpowering urge to get back home to North America.

You eat the wrong thing in North America for 30 years, and you wind up with some minor ailment. You eat (or drink) the wrong thing just ONCE here in China, and you're incapacitated for a week or worse. I've had liquor that made me violently ill for two days, red wine that gave me such a killer headache I was involuntarily moaning in pain and T3s did nothing to stop it, meat that made me felt like I was on speed, candies that took away my appetite for 3 days, I've gotten food poisoning basically once a month, and everyone I FaceTime with at home says it looks like I've aged five years since I left Canada. I've lost 20 lbs, no matter how much I exercise and no matter how much so-called "protein" I eat I can't get the muscle mass back.

Not to say there isn't a problem in North America, but it could be much, much worse.

I think this perspective is correct. Has someone identified a way to further improve the food supply? Great. Has someone detected a problem in a small part of the population from the over-use of one substance or another? Then discussing it makes sense.

What doesn't make sense is running around like Henny Penny over our food supply. If you live in the US your entire life and exercise the slightest bit of caution about how you eat, you will likely live a long time and die a bit overweight, if for no other reason than the food is inexpensive.

If you go out of your way to subsist on food without a shelf life, or you buy all you groceries at a 7/11, I predict you won't feel great. However, you probably won't be violently ill even if you make a moron's choices.

[O_G]

What doesn't make sense is running around like Henny Penny over our food supply.

Boring hyperbolic ad hominem adds nothing to this topic.

Has someone detected a problem in a small part of the population from the over-use of one substance or another? Then discussing it makes sense.

Then start discussing.

[ATL_Av8r]

I'm gonna invent low fructose corn syrup. Then retire.

[OSD#15]

ad hominem

Oh look, you have a new favorite word! Been using that one a lot lately! LOVE the italics!

[atomicalex]

I am about 200gr of filled Lindt chocolates.

[Chilledman]

Wow! 0_G is using big boy words.
He must have some of that "fancy book learnin".

P.S. your threads suck.

[dubinsincuwereindiapers]

^^^^ OG

[ATL_Av8r]

^^^^ OG

So he's not your everyday type prankster?

[Chris Stack]

I'm a bran muffin and Yoplait Lite. I'll be #Occupying a stall soon.

[Chilledman]

Just a FYI

Dont eat week old KFC thats been in the fridge .

I have never thrown something up so violently for so long and then it ended with it coming out the other end also .

Worst day of my life , along with barfing and crapping my brains out , my whole body hurts from all the muscle contractions and cold shakes.

[dubinsincuwereindiapers]

So he's not your everyday type prankster?

Nah G; he's a motherfûcking gangsta

[Egilbe]

Just a FYI

Dont eat KFC .

FTFY

Sorry to see you so ill, but it warms my heart to know that your crappy eating habits finally caught up to you.

[ValveCoverGasket]

Worst day of my life , along with barfing and crapping my brains out , my whole body hurts from all the muscle contractions and cold shakes.

sounds like a diet plan, and a full body workout.

problem?

[Nubbin]

jelly? plz don't mad

[zukiphile]

Don't expect much rationality. There are a few trolls who make a hobby of pooing in my topics.

kar·ma   /ˈkɑrmə/ Show Spelled[kahr-muh] Show IPA
noun
1. Hinduism, Buddhism . action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti ( def. 1 ) , jnana.
2. Theosophy . the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation.

Dictionary.com

[Kameirocco]

No beer on that list. I'm safe.

unless you consider bottle conditioned beers... they're carbonated via corn sugar.... lol

[O_G]

kar·ma   /ˈkɑrmə/ Show Spelled[kahr-muh] Show IPA
noun
1. Hinduism, Buddhism . action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. Compare bhakti ( def. 1 ) , jnana.
2. Theosophy . the cosmic principle according to which each person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according to that person's deeds in the previous incarnation.

Dictionary.com

Theosophy and "karma", eh? Thanks for the continuing rationality.

What's next? Astrology?

[O_G]

Oooo....

[Fritz27]

[O_G]

Let me guess, you're so tired of my topics that you felt an overwhelming urge to post an irrelevant photograph in one?

Care to say anything useful about nutrition?

[Fritz27]

I just think lambs are cute and I'm not sure I'd feel too great about eating one.

The subtext is obvious.

[O_G]

I just think lambs are cute and I'm not sure I'd feel too great about eating one.

The subtext is obvious.

Try again.

[OSD#15]

You still haven't told us why you joined a CAR forum and haven't once posted about cars...

[O_G]

You still haven't told us why you joined a CAR forum and haven't once posted about cars...

Maybe when you post something in this topic that's actually on-topic I'll waste more time responding again to the same pointless troll spam.

[OSD#15]

Maybe when you post something in this topic that's actually on-topic I'll waste more time responding again to the same pointless troll spam.

OK, here we go. Here in America, we have the freedom to purchase what we want and to educate ourselves about what we eat. The information you posted is easily accessible by anyone with a computer and if people were that concerned with what is in the food they eat, they are free to look it up. The fact of the matter is, people don't really give a **** and we are living longer than ever. The sky isn't falling. If anyone is spamming, its you.

Now, go ahead, answer my question.

[O_G]

OK, here we go. Here in America, we have the freedom to purchase what we want and to educate ourselves about what we eat.

That's not freedom, that's an unnecessary burden. It's redundant, inefficient, and designed for one thing and one thing only: to let food producers profit at the expense of public health.

What is freedom is when someone wants to become a nutritionist and set policy, do research, and the like. Expecting everyone to become an expert so they can eat is ridiculous.

The information you posted is easily accessible by anyone with a computer and if people were that concerned with what is in the food they eat, they are free to look it up.

BS. Not only is the information not readily available, given that it's a hodgepodge of sources and people have to filter a huge number of astroturf and scare sites — it's absurd to demand that people use a computer to verify every food item they purchase.

People do not have the time/energy/resources to become an expert in everything. Civilization's core purpose is cooperative leveraging of expertise. People specialize for a reason.

The fact of the matter is, people don't really give a **** and we are living longer than ever.

You sure like to recycle tired and rebutted talking points. I will refer yet again to the deformed genitals, which is just one adequate rebuttal of many.

The sky isn't falling.

No, but dreary clichéd talking points certainly are.

If anyone is spamming, its you.

I'm sure you find the long photo spam more illuminating.

Now, go ahead, answer my question.

I already did. Go back and read. And, next time, try to get your facts straight to avoid asking stupid questions. After the facts, also try to use some elementary logic.

[O_G]

Also, only in your world is information that was leaked by a whistleblower "readily available".

[under the radar]

mmmm...spam.

[SOAR]

This thread has run its course.