Life, existence is all about trade offs. Whether is having "pure," "clean" food or something else. Something else may be hunger, possibly famine; something else may be contamination - Salem witchery may have been due to ergot "poisoning;" had we better pesticides in medieval Europe, Ancient Rome, etc., then millions of deaths due to plag…
Life, existence is all about trade offs. Whether is having "pure," "clean" food or something else. Something else may be hunger, possibly famine; something else may be contamination - Salem witchery may have been due to ergot "poisoning;" had we better pesticides in medieval Europe, Ancient Rome, etc., then millions of deaths due to plague may have been averted/avoided - and with that lack of loss feudalism may not have died away and a better social/economic paradigm entered for much longer; GMO crops like Golden Rice languish while millions suffer.
I’m not saying, and I did NOT say, we shouldn’t do better but demanding the best in lieu of TODAY’s good is a trade off I find immoral. I like bread; I like bread so much that I desire (I myself say I DEMAND) the best for me. Because of that I buy "organic" berries locally and from around the country (there’s probably 300# in the house right now) that I mill right before I bake. I use 3 ingredients: flour, water, salt (salt kind’a sort’a optional). But not everyone is willing to go thru what I do nor willing to pay the premium. Did I say I like bread?
Someday our tech will advance to a point where many (all⁉️) of today’s complaints will be behind us - my thoughts: the same mindset then will find something to complain about as we do today. If being a pragmatist makes me a government drone, well guilty - but when you open your eyes and finally see the millions dying and suffering I hope you’re capable of sleeping well.
Are we all Orioles today? <- thought I was being funny (Baltimore orioles) - Maryland has a ridiculous number of state animals.
Life, existence is all about trade offs. Whether is having "pure," "clean" food or something else. Something else may be hunger, possibly famine; something else may be contamination - Salem witchery may have been due to ergot "poisoning;" had we better pesticides in medieval Europe, Ancient Rome, etc., then millions of deaths due to plague may have been averted/avoided - and with that lack of loss feudalism may not have died away and a better social/economic paradigm entered for much longer; GMO crops like Golden Rice languish while millions suffer.
I’m not saying, and I did NOT say, we shouldn’t do better but demanding the best in lieu of TODAY’s good is a trade off I find immoral. I like bread; I like bread so much that I desire (I myself say I DEMAND) the best for me. Because of that I buy "organic" berries locally and from around the country (there’s probably 300# in the house right now) that I mill right before I bake. I use 3 ingredients: flour, water, salt (salt kind’a sort’a optional). But not everyone is willing to go thru what I do nor willing to pay the premium. Did I say I like bread?
Someday our tech will advance to a point where many (all⁉️) of today’s complaints will be behind us - my thoughts: the same mindset then will find something to complain about as we do today. If being a pragmatist makes me a government drone, well guilty - but when you open your eyes and finally see the millions dying and suffering I hope you’re capable of sleeping well.
Are we all Orioles today? <- thought I was being funny (Baltimore orioles) - Maryland has a ridiculous number of state animals.
Perhaps we’re all Bal’morians 🤔 today