Re: Food

I agree with Tim except for a couple of points.

1. Outlawing smoking is fine with me since it is such an established health hazard for other people who don't choose to do it. It is comparable to drunk driving, its illegal b/c of what happens to the other person as opposed to perpetrator.
2. Organic food is retarded. The whole movement makes no sense and I can't stand all the fucking support its getting. The biggest effect of not using fertilizer or pesticides is having to use more land to grow the same amount of food. This means further deforestation and depletion of natural resources. If these people understood the consequences of not using whatever pesticides they use, they would realize the positive doesn't outweigh the negative. Also, the fair trade movement is guilty of the same dumbass logic. Farm prices are low because of overproduction...so lets subsidize farmers further, and encourage more production in the process. Brilliant economic policy. Almost as smart as subsidizing ethanol so that the price of every grocery doubles in the next two years.

If you can't tell, the previous few issues fire me up. They're lollipop politics at their best, "here suck on this so that you'll vote for me in 9 months, who gives a shit if this is bad for us in the longrun!"