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that's depressingly comedic.

That article didn't change my opinion of fast food anymore that it did you. Sure, it put me off for a minute, albeit I knew all that stuff to begin with. I still eat fast food. That is, until I finished the book just recently. I didn't hear from any of you in your posts whether you had read the book or not. It is a necessity to know just exactly what's going on in the fast food industry, and this guy drives home. So please check it out. It's not so much the "slaughterhouses" per se, which cleaned up its act after the Jungle was published and T. Roosevelt had all those provisions made. What really disgusted me was the working conditions for the workers. Most of them are immigrants, who work ungodly hours. I would post the exerpts from the book, but really, you don't get an idea of the whole spectrum of accounts from just a few exerpts. One in three people working in slaughterhouses sustain a serious injury. Schlosser interview's some of the workers, who almost always are living in poverty conditions. And it really opened my eyes to hear that a lot of them go home and clean and sharpen their long slaughtering blades. Still, this didn't keep me away from fast food. Neither did the numerous accounts of disease outbreaks in hamburger, such as ecoli, from poor sanitary conditions. Neither did the inhumanity performed at such places as Tyson. I'm not nor have ever been one of those PETA supporters or any of that junk, but it still is wrong. And I still eat chicken. I just think what they do to get chicken and beef all over the world is mass market madness. Just a step below walmart. I was appalled at the immorality of the whole fast food chain business after the revealing history of Schlosser's research. He did an extensive study that has greatly affected the way I look at fast food. It's gets pretty vivid. Fast food causes too many problems, and as much as I thought I knew before, I still kinda remained ignorant on the matter. No longer, however. Fast Food America is a book you really can't just ignore. It makes me want to be a vegetarian, although I probably won't. I just couldn't do it. Though it does make me a whole lot more skeptical about fast food places. Yeah, it's fun, but I think I'd rather know what I'm eating and not eat it for the right reasons than eat it an be completely blind. Not only is fast food a world wide problem for health, it suddenly becomes gross every time I remember some vivid recap from that book. So now every time a friend suggests we go to burger king to eat or something, I just glare at him and say, hell no. very witty and educational. Though I think Bascule said it perfectly. After reading about the Tyson incidents, I really hate processed chicken products thrown in batter and deep fryed. I mean has anyone had McNuggests!!!!! What the hell are they supposed to be!!!!!

Are you sure this is a valid news site? ...Cause if it is then I totally agree with you...

This was in ERic Schlosser's book "Fast Food America." Does think make anyone not want to eat McDonald's ever again???

Is this reaction sparked by any other diary product besides cheese? Cause I think I get that feeling when eating certain dairy products.

Can you imagine getting caught in that?!?

cephalic should be seh-falik, I think. It's comes from the Latin word cephalique and is the root word from encephalitis, thus a soft c-sound.

Wikipedia tries to explain it through the birthday attack. The math is expounded on here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BirthdayProblem.html Both of these sites were listed as external links on Damn Interesting

While the name' date=' [i']damn interesting[/i] may lead you to believe that, the stuff, at least Alan Bellows, is pretty well-researched. There is also comments on his articles, so you have some feedback. This I don't know, numbers are enormous.

If 366 people are in a room they represent every day of the year +1 extra person. So there is one person that has to fit in to a day that's already been filled. This means that at least two people share the same birthday. It has to work this way. And it is a 100% probability, therefore. However, everyone in the room, speaking in random probability, does not have to have a birthday on every day of the year. Yet if they don't, then the birthday's start piling up on each other. There may not be someone with a birthday on July 8, July 9, and July 10, but then there has to be, naturally, four people who have a birthday on July 11, or some other day, for example. The guy is stating that there is a 100% probability that two people have a birthday on the same day, which is undeniably true. The paradox is that at 57 people, the probability raises to above 99%, which defies natural-intuition and reasoning, therefore, and that's why it's a paradox. The math was a bit confusing, but its there, and had withstood all the tests, so you have to assume its bona fide. Read it again, I'm pretty certain he knows what he's talking about.

Well in any case we don't pick up on it.

What are they playing tennis with?

I just love Creationists. they should be under Contradictory in Websters as an example.

Can someone please help me out with this one...do people seriously do this... http://www.lifegem.com/secondary/whatisLG2006.aspx ...On second thought, maybe it's not a bad idea.

Here's the external link wiki gives, in case you need some reassurance from the bad experience... The Cosmic Spectrum ..it says ...sorry, no allieviation there...I guess it really is "Beige" or as they call it "Latte." I didn't read it all to find out how they figured that out, although it is pretty crazy to think about.

I found some more entertaining and informative articles on answersingenesis. http://www.answersingenesis.org/search/default.aspx?qt=dinosaurs oh, the ignorance. and this is how they justify themselves... shoot me. There's so much to quote, but it would take me all day. However, here's something I couldn't pass up, an excerpt from a fan. I don't know what to say...shoot...him maybe, put him out of his misery.

Has anyone ever heard of this...it sounded like a joke when I first read it. Cosmic Latte

Still in uproar http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=65780

that's kinda negative. what world then, if not earth?

Nina Kulagina This is exactly what I was talking about. Read and tell me if having such psychic powers as a common human attribute would be beneficial or detrimental to society. Would it be as cool as it was in Star Wars? would there be a good force and dark force? Or would it turn out like Ghostbusters and harness all the bad psychic energy and transform into a massive evil entity come to destroy the city? Tell me how this can be explained. I was skeptical at first until I saw the video. I was awestruck. Supposedly there are more accounts of this gift in other people, and I think there may be a woman living today who can accomplish some of the feats Nina has done. The burning hand was also pretty cool. She could generate heat with her hands! It may all seem a bit stretched. It's not though, I can atest to that. After researching this woman and seeing her in action, I've come to fully understand what Einstein was saying about "the potential of the human mind." Its just unfortunate that psychic powers aren't passed genetically like hemophilia.

the burp was in your stomach to begin with. It cannot harm you...it finds its way out sooner or later.

It's about time, too. Keyboards take up unnecessary space. So do mouses.