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I'd eat tofu. So many ways to cook that stuff, and I recently found out how this awesome restaurant near my place makes it. Before that, I wasn't a big fan, but now it is my favourite food. Take a package of extra firm tofu. Freeze it for about a day, defrost it in boiling water for 15 minutes...

This thread is about Marshall Brain's story, which is about technology, transhumanism, and the future economy. It is an interesting story to read. It's only about 8 [web] pages long. It'll maybe take about twenty minutes for most people to read, less for others. Manna, by Marshall Brain Lots...

Moved from thread "A simple question re: 9/11,Why would the U.S. fly planes int" found at http://www.canadiancontent.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=245397#245397 Apparently, the 9-11 conspiracy theorists have being going off about a left gatekeeper conspiracy, so Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, a...

Vegetarian, I guess. I eat some foods that were prepared with a bit of dairy, and I love the honey. I don't slam milk though. Yogurt I eat occasionally. Yesterday, I screwed up. I ate a friend's pasta that had a small amount of ground beef. Didn't notice until his sister asked me why I was...

Re: RE: Help, I'm nursing! Bummer. I hope you heal soon, because that kinda sucks. I'm honestly not sure what you should do myself. I guess just look harder for the answers and/or tough it out until you heal, and push yourself to eat more of that stuff in the meantime so that you stay...

RE: 50 Harmful Effects of Hmm... horizontal gene transfer among bacteria isn't all that rare really. In fact, I am pretty sure it is quite common with certain prokaryotes. An interesting thing you reminded me of that was so obvious yet slipped my mind: this isn't bacteria to bacteria we are...

Re: RE: Problem - industrial-style agricultural system Right on Liz. I respect you at least somewhat for having been a farmer. To me, it is an admirable occupation; one of those things where ideally, I cannot find too many bad things to say, like fire fighters and doctors. Vital to the...

When you look at things like bacteria especially, these things really can jump from organism to organism, whether or not they are natural genes. Many bacteria are capable of transfering genetic info amongst one another, even if they are not of the same species. The same is true even of gut...

RE: 50 Harmful Effects of Well, what pisses me off most... Is how a company like Monsanto can come in and isolate some genes, and then they profit off many thousands upon thousands of years of work by people (mostly women from thousands of years ago, and then farmers of both sexes later on)...

Low residue? Can you explain? ... Hmmm... making it low fibre and low fat really kills the vast amount of choices, or at least, many of the healthy foods I could recommend in large quantities. Still, there are tons of things. Can you be more specific as to how low in fibre you must have? If...

RE: Soy as health food - By the way, with regards to the original article.... There are more articles on how isoflavones are good for you than bad. It's funny, but when discussing isoflavones (not in the context of soy) they are almost always seen as this wonderful thing that helps men decrease...

Re: RE: Soy as health food - scam ? Hmm... there are folks with at least somewhat anarchic ideals (in the left libertarian sense, for all you property-loving right Libertarians) that do something called dumpster diving. They can be poor or not and do this, of course. Or perhaps they are poor...

Well, I won't convince you to become a vegatarian, that is a decision you must make on your own. I do think that we have the ability now though, to give many people a satisfying vegetarian, or even vegan, diet. And by people, I mean anything but the guys on SNL who go on about the Chicaho Bears...

RE: Problem - industrial- I dig your thoughts and the delivery, Karlin. Nice to see something a little more radical (though not necessarily incorrect) brought up in these forums. Reply with quote http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature6.cfm?REF=391 Quote: "Farmers going broke as populations...

I am a vegetarian, borderline vegan myself, and have consumed a great deal of soy/soy milk for a long time. Goitrogens are a problem for some, but if that's the case, you might as well denounce broccoli and most other veggies and beans. Anyhow, a lot of the bashing done to soy is probably...