Comments for The Food Ethics Blog http://food-ethics.com Ethics, from farm to table, by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:30:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by Chris MacDonald http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-902 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:30:37 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-902 Why would I be astonished? I’m not sure what you’re getting at.

]]> Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by herbjamie1 http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-901 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:57:46 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-901 Reduced Caloric Intake is the key to adding 20 years to your life, not the Twinkie diet or the Paula Deen diet. Are you astonished?

]]> Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by Chris MacDonald http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-900 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:55:24 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-900 If the research you’re talking about actually contradicts the research cited above, and is methodologically rigorous, I would be interested to know it.

But keep in mind that the study cited above refers to a very specific set of measures and outcomes.

]]> Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by herbjamie1 http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-899 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:55:31 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-899 Chris
…and you admit to that?

]]> Comment on A Better Factory Farm? by Sue Cross http://food-ethics.com/2010/10/07/a-better-factory-farm/#comment-872 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:53:46 +0000 http://food-ethics.com/?p=615#comment-872 David, how I agree!!

Hence my my exposé of factory farms in my books, the most recent in ebook format: ‘Todays Freaks: An A to Z of How Farm Animals Live and Die’.(More on http://www.onthemenu-animalwelfare.co.uk)

I am hoping you might retweet to help the cause of bringing this awful cruelty to light?

Best wishes, Sue Cross

]]> Comment on A Better Factory Farm? by David http://food-ethics.com/2010/10/07/a-better-factory-farm/#comment-866 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:09:39 +0000 http://food-ethics.com/?p=615#comment-866 It’s hard to imagine about the possibility of a good factory farm. Given the horrible conditions of overcrowding and the spread of diseases, it’s hard to have a clean and completely disease-free factory farm. Also, the meat and poultry industry wants to make profit by producing more meat, not less. In order to improve conditions in factory farms, the industry would have to raise less animals and produce less meat.

]]> Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by herbjamie1 http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-816 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:01:42 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-816 Chris
There are several researchers which categorically state that nutrient dense foods with few calories and also low glycemic foods and also foods with increased vitality make the subject lose weight and are much healthier and lead to great longevity? Unfortunately I do not think twinkles qualify as any of these food categories (nutirent dense, calorie restricted, low glycemic and food of vitality?

]]> Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by Chris MacDonald http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-797 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:30:03 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-797 Yes, I blogged about the Twinkie diet here: http://food-ethics.com/2010/09/15/the-junk-food-diet-stunt/

]]> Comment on Sources of Calories and Diet-Industry Ethics by wartica http://food-ethics.com/2012/01/29/sources-of-calories-and-diet-industry-ethics/#comment-795 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:52:24 +0000 http://foodandethics.wordpress.com/?p=997#comment-795 I totally agree; there was that finding – about a year ago – about a doctor who ate 1700 calories of Twinkies for a month. He lost a lot of weight and it proves the point of your blog post. Great post and I look forward to sharing more with you:))

]]> Comment on Should Companies Label Genetically Modified Foods? by Chris MacDonald http://food-ethics.com/2010/08/16/label-genetically-modified-foods/#comment-794 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:00:47 +0000 http://food-ethics.com/?p=258#comment-794 2 quick points:

1) My “back of the bus” analogy was poorly-explained. My point just is that democracy is not the same as giving the people whatever they want, regardless of how well-informed their wants are.

2) My intention is not to say that the ‘risks’ of digital watches is or could be on a par with those of GM foods. My point is that when you understand the underlying mechanisms of something, you don’t necessarily have to have long-term studies to be reasonably sure that they’re safe.

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