This is the first thing I thought of when I left my local Wild Oats store. With all of this talk about the advantages of organic food, I decided to check out my local mecca of “health food” in Princeton. Everybody in that store is either fat or skinny/pale/half dead looking. Not only that, but everything in the store, including comparable organic items, is 10% more expensive. What gives?
I go to that Princeton Wild Oats about every other month just because of the high prices. What gives is that you get more absorbable nutrients from organic food. You just have to know what to look for. For example, their Wild Oat fruit bars cost .33 each and topped with whey protein are a good post-workout meal(the bars themselves have 24 grams of carbs). Wild Oats also has excellent quality meat, fish, and chicken. Whole Earth down the road is really for pussies with none of this. Wild Oats is also the only place I ever had sushi on brwon rice. I agree with you that most of the stuff is for skinny-fat vegeatrians, but go in with an open mind next time. Also, there are some great looking women in there every once in a while including some of the workers.
will , i am talking about some of the same items. in the mccafferty’s in princeton, they carry the exact same organic cereals and fruits/veggies as well as organic meat for about 10% less cost.
I realize the advantage of organic food, my only question is, if all of this stuff is so healthy, how come all the people in the place look so unhealthy?
There are some fatties at Burger King. But there are some really cute hotties working there too. It’s what they eat, not what food they work around that makes the difference.
My sister owns a building with a health food store in it. My dads the landlord and made a comment about half these people look sick. The owner said a lot of these people are sick. That is why they got into health food in the first place.
But most the health food nuts take things too far, and drop all meat from their diets. They don’t eat enough in general, and when they do, you know it’s got soy in it.
ive spent a shitload of time in health food joints.
it’s a fad. many people there have moral agendas but express no real life experience with health.
the only legitimate reason i find for health food stores is to counter gmo (genetically mutated organisms). most people dont think gmo is a problem, yet they dont realize that gmo has the potential, through chain reaction, to destroy all bilateral life on earth. kinda like how oppenheimer and his scientists didn’t know if atom bomb detonation would ignite molecules of the atmosphere and nuke the entire earth (they went ahead and detonated anyway). gmo is a potential problem and no one knows what its effects will be…yet they theorize.
wufwugy, no offense, but it sounds like you have been watching “28 days” or something. Viruses and bacteria, even the prions – even the extremely virulent ones, will never possess the ability to wipe out all life on earth. If a “gmo” is adapted somehow to be extremely efficient at damaging a certain organism, it will necessarily be ineffecient in attacking a different genus or species of organism. Also, the government is not building super-secret biological weapons that will one day accidentally escape from the top-security lab and destroy everything. That would be extremely counter-productive. The weapons we are making will not stick around to kill our own guys, trust me. Biological weapons are very limited in their usage, and are cost-prohibitive to develop. My brother is a weapons designer for the military. He’s not allowed to tell me what his department is doing, but I can assure you that it has nothing to do with biological weapons. Sorry for the hijack, but wufwugy cracks me up, and I couldn’t resist heckling him a little. 
Mike, where is this Mccaffertys? I’d like to check them out.
it is in the princeton shopping center off of harrison street. take harrison off of route one, go thru 5 lights (meaning you pass nassau st.) and make a rt. into the shopping center. its something like 301 north harrison st. in princeton nj 08540 McCafferty’s is located in the far north corner of the shopping center. there is a lot of money and education in princeton so a lot of the people there are starting to demand more organic produce/meat. they have organic steaks/meats in the meat department counter. the fish isn’t so great, you can go to nassau seafood on nassau st. pm me if you don’t know where that is. the fish there is insanely fresh, it is down the street from wild oats. sometimes at mccafferty’s they will have a huge sale on free range chicken (not organic however-i think)
shank
[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
wufwugy, no offense, but it sounds like you have been watching “28 days” or something. Viruses and bacteria, even the prions – even the extremely virulent ones, will never possess the ability to wipe out all life on earth. If a “gmo” is adapted somehow to be extremely efficient at damaging a certain organism, it will necessarily be ineffecient in attacking a different genus or species of organism. Also, the government is not building super-secret biological weapons that will one day accidentally escape from the top-security lab and destroy everything. That would be extremely counter-productive. The weapons we are making will not stick around to kill our own guys, trust me. Biological weapons are very limited in their usage, and are cost-prohibitive to develop. My brother is a weapons designer for the military. He’s not allowed to tell me what his department is doing, but I can assure you that it has nothing to do with biological weapons. Sorry for the hijack, but wufwugy cracks me up, and I couldn’t resist heckling him a little. :)[/quote]
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lothario, i appreciate the response and speculation.
i understand that gmo can be rather misleading. gmo is not a biological weapon or enhanced predatorial organism. the gmo i am talking about is exclusive to plants grown and consumed as food.
the reason for genetic altering of these plants is to make them resistant to their natural predators, thus creating far more profit and less work for us humans.
what is not popularly realized is that gmo is like a vaccine, unadaptable. if a vaccine were the only way to cease a sickness than every individual to acquire said sickness would die. why? because the virus which causes the sickness is adaptable, the vaccine is not.
the same logic is relevant with gmo, becasue when we alter an organism in the genetic level we alter their broadness into specifics. and we all know that being specific reduces the ability to adapt.
this lack of adaptability will be the demise of said organism. “survival of the fittest” could also be coined as “survival of the most adaptable.”
because the annihilation of gmo would be so huge and immediate it would chain effect the environment. a ton of shit would happen.
if you get it so far you’re probably thinking that this is not a problem because only the gmo would be eliminated. but what is ignored is that gmo can cross-breed. in cross-breeding, non-gmo (adaptable) would become gmo (unadaptable) and things would get out of hand becuase the cross-breeding would simply be a matter of wind and insects. wind and insects provide a necessary means by which plants flourish.
my point: if our food cannot survive, we cannot survive.
of course, this would begin with certain insects not having any food so they look elsewhere or die; then other certain carnivorous insects and small animals would have no food because the insects that fed on plants are all dead, so they die; and on and on until balance is restored.
do i actually think this will happen? no.
have i seen “28 days later?” no.
why do i spend time thinking about and discussing this then? because it makes for entertaining thoughts and discussions.
lothario, i’d appreciate a response if you have one (it’s always nice to find new ways in which im wrong).
i hope i’ve managed to crack you up (what is life without humor?).
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[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
wufwugy, no offense, but it sounds like you have been watching “28 days”[/quote]
28 Days is a movie about alcoholic Sandra Bullock in rehab.
I think he means 28 days later…
Please provide an example of the last time scientific adaptation has lead to complete extinction of a species. In the “anything is possible” section of the mall, you may actally have a place with this theory…right next to alien abductions and the pyramids being built by people from the fourth dimension. In the “things most likely to occur” section, your goods seem to have been misplaced.