[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Originally Posted by Dances without Joy

We need to stop using corn and soybeans as animal feed. Grass fed cattle and swine and free-range poultry produce leaner, more flavorful meat. Grass finishing instead of feedlots and cages is better for the animals while they're alive and better for the folks who eat them.

Originally Posted by Dances without Joy

While I'd eat bugs if I were on the verge of starvation and they were the only food available, they're not going to be my first menu choice when I go out to dinner.
You can have the fleas in caramel sauce - I'll have the crawfish bisque.

Let me guess, those wouldn't be "free-range", "dolphin free", "non-clubbed baby seal" insects would they?

[One-eyed Jack]

I don't get it. Farmers don't plan to plant enough corn to feed America.

Why the heck aren't they planting what the nation needs? What are they growing, carnations and sissy-lilies?

I have before me a loaf of Puffofresh, the wife's choice of supermarket white bread. The ingredients listed on the wrapper are, in order of importance:

Chlorine-bleached white flour (may contain cellulose fiber), high-fructose corn syrup, kaolin, yeast, corn oil, water (may contain up to 3% petroleum waste), salt, ammonium sulfate, filler (cornstalk powder and pulped egg cartons), sodium pentacyanate, protein additive (dried weevils), calcium sulfate, calcium propianate, calcium udonwannano, and cornstarch.

How are we going to make wholesome bread if the darned farmers won't grow enough corn? This is good bread! My grandfather ate Puffofresh all his life, and when he died they didn't even have to embalm him -- he just wouldn't rot.

And about those free-range cows: there isn't enough free-range beef produced in the USA to feed Tuscon, let alone the nation. Virtually every Godly pound of bright red cowflesh oozing watery lymph in supermarket coolers comes from a feedlot.

Anyway. I'm stocking up on corn oil, corn syrup, corn plasters, corn meal, cornstarch, canned corn, cornish game hens, and corny old movies. You can't be too careful in this ungodly and unrighteous fallen world.

~~ OEJ

[SUV]

MY JESUS, Sister Thumper, does this ever bring back memories!!!

Remember the time we fixed this for the Pastors, drawn Butter and all, and then we got our Fundaments kicked because shellFish is Biblically inCorrect?

Then they Ate it anyway, because the Bible says "Waste Not, Want Not."

I think that's in the Bible.......?

Well? Well? READ YOUR BIBLE, PEOPLE! READ.YOUR.GOD-INFESTED.BIBLES!!!

[Nobar King]

Hopefully the British will give up popcorn for good and we can go back to having big tubs again:

'The End' for popcorn in British cinemas: report

Sat Aug 9,


LONDON (AFP) - The credits are rolling in Britain for the time-honoured cinematic tradition of munching popcorn at the movies -- a newspaper reported Sunday that increasing numbers of cinemas are banning it.

A combination of health-conscious cinemagoers rejecting sugar-coated popcorn and disgust at its distinctive smell is steadily spelling "The End" for the snack in some arthouse cinema chains, the Observer reported. It quoted Daniel Broch, the owner of the renowned Everyman cinema in London's upmarket Hampstead district, who recently bought 17 more venues. "I will de-popcorn every new venue I acquire," he said. "It has a disproportionate influence on the space in terms of its overwhelming smell, the cultural idea of it and the operational problems created by the mess it produces. "I'm not saying no popcorn is better than popcorn," he added. "But I am saying there is no way in which it fits with the culturally sophisticated brand I wish to sell."

The Picturehouse Cinema, a chain of 19 cinemas across Britain, will experiment with popcorn-free screenings in September. "Popcorn is a contentious issue. Lots of people absolutely hate it and have asked us to ban it, so we're going to do exactly that," the group's head of media, Gabriel Swartland, told the Observer. "If it's a success, and I've no reason to suspect it won't be, we'll roll it out across all our cinemas and make it a permanent fixture," said Swartland.

But other cinemas which tried to go popcorn-free found customers demanded it.
"Audiences in three venues... began asking for popcorn, so we provided it," said Richard Napper, the marketing director of the Curzon chain.