Comments EeeGee has made

  • Let's try to be open-minded...

    and at let's at least check it out. TofuTurkey's right on.....these veggie meat things are weird! I go to the Natural Products expos every year and some of the stuff being fobbed off as "healthy, natural & vegetarian" reeeeeally stretches those definitions.

    Will shmeat be as authentic as, say, that Heritage black spotted dapple-nose peeky lamb that organo-foodies live for? Definitely not. But if I can get a decently toothsome & relatively harmless meatfix without slaughtering more hapless doe-eyed innocent critters, I'm all for it. (I can get the nutrients from all the local, organic heirloom veggies I eat with my shmeat.)

    Potential for weirdness of the corporate geneto-manipulative variety? Absolutely. And we'll prob'ly get a lotta false health claims too.  But nothing these days is inherently safe from that. Let's watch & see what happens to the Slo Foods when WalMart buys in (and if everyone keeps writing about it, they will!).

    Shmeat is a strange compromise, one that facilitates a unique form of guilt assuagement (think of it as carbon offsets for the soul). But since I do enjoy meat now and again I, for one, am  willing to try it.

    Yes, it's Star Trek food, but I suppose you'd like to carry on this long distance, multi-person dialog via smoke signals??

    --EeeGee

    On Test-tube flesh, coming soon to a hot dog near you posted 11 months, 4 weeks ago 15 Responses

  • Take It (Back) Like A Man....

    There has to be some reason why our otherwise kinda sorta greenish Mayor would move to nix something like an electronics take-back mandate here in NYC.....I just couldn't quite figure out what it was. But my smart & savvy partner thinks she knows......

    "How'd Bloomberg make all his fortunes?" she asked me.
     "Financial data, right?" I replied.
    "Yes, but how do they distribute that data?"
    "Hmmmm, ya stumped me there, hon."

    Well, apparently, Bloomberg transmits all that freshly crunched, up to the minute financial data via special proprietary receiver boxes, which sit on the desks of financial sector professionals worldwide. And probably, they need to be updated/replaced pretty often to keep up w/technology advances. Which means that if there were a take-back mandate, Ol' Bloomie himself (or at least his company) would probably end up with heaps of obsolete BloomBoxes to deal with. And we wouldn't want THAT would we?

    We could be wrong, but it's as good an explanation as any.....On NYC mayor says he'll veto an electronics-recycling bill posted 1 year, 9 months ago 5 Responses