Text 29246, 96 rader
Skriven 2015-07-21 20:27:36 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 29223 av Dave Drum (1:18/200)
Ärende: Eating Habits
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Hi Dave,

 RH> Seems that kind of person always goes back to "taking in strays". They
 RH> took almost 200 animals from this place I referred to, after several
 RH> years of warnings and threats to do so (and more amimals added in the
 RH> meantime). It looks like all the animals are healthy enough for
 RH> adoption tho.

 DD> We have a "cat lady" in our court. But, she doesn't take them in. Just
 DD> feeds several more-or-less stray or feral moggies outdoors. I don't
 DD> realy think of her as a cat lady --- but some of the other residents
 DD> seem to do so.

She's a cat lover and cat feeder but not a cat hoarder. Yes, a cat
oriented lady but not a cat obsessed lady.


 RH> (fast food)
 ML> would have been accepted as normal, necessary, and perhaps
 ML> delicious a few generations ago.

 RH> Get rid of the McDs, Subways, Bojangles, etc on every other corner of
 RH> the lower income areas and you'll have a start.

 DD> You have to be kidding, right? Mess with profits?!?!? Why, that's just
 DD> un-American.  Bv)=

 RH> It's also unhealthy.

 DD> What does that have to do with profits and making money???   Bv)=

Seems like if you can make it unhealthy, relatively inexpensive and set
in a low income area, you can make big bucks.

 ML> I would be happy with that course of action, but not for
 ML> nutritional reasons. Anyhow, I'll see your easier said than
 ML> done and raise with an impossible.

 RH> I'll match with a "who are they (we) trying to kid?" reaction from
 RH> those patrons of such places.

 DD> And the owners who are raking in relatively obscene amounts of money
 DD> on the backs of min-wage workers and customers who don't know better
 DD> or don't care.

 RH> Sigh!

 DD> It's been the way of the world since the dawn of money.

Seems that way, any way to get money out of someone. I know kids used to
get a bit of nutrition taught as part of science or health in schools,
don't know if it's still part of education these days. Apparantly not,
from what a lot of young folks are eating. Then too, beans and rice &
rice and beans are affordable on a less than minimum wage income,
leaving a bit of money to squander on other vices like fast food,
lottery tickets, etc.

 ML> Even nutritional labeling isn't going to do any good -
 ML> you won't scare off the clientele even if you talk about
 ML> 1000 Calories and 1000 mg of Na in every dubiously
 ML> delicious sandwich.

 RH> No, but threaten a heart attack or stroke while in their 30s might
 RH> scare them. Then too, some might not live long enough to reach their
 RH> 30s.

 DD> We're all bullet-proof and are going to live forever, right? Think of
 DD> it as Darwin in action.

 RH> A generation dying out because of what they ate? Maybe not completely
 RH> but they can come pretty close.

 DD> Not just ecause of what they ate. Also from a sedentary life-style in
 DD> front of the groove tube sucking at the glass teat and/or playing
 DD> video games instead of getting outside and being active or playing
 DD> real, physical, traditional games.

 DD> It's still Darwin in action.

At a rather extreme level it seems. But, I agree that kids don't get out
and run around like they used to. We had free run of a good area, our
girls had less but still a fair amount of freedom to roam. Their kids
are much more restricted in where they can/can't wnder. Our girls know
the basics of good nutrition, even tho it seems sometimes they don't
always go for the healthy-est food on the shelf.

---
Catch you later,
Ruth
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