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LQD: Monbiot: Meat a worse crime than biofuels. | 102 comments (102 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: "Eat food. Not too much. (4.00 / 2)

Actually, taste is selected against: strong tastes put some people off, so they weaken the taste, so people are even less used to them and they weaken them some more.

Once we're all eating polystyrene and cotton wool with a side of vitamin tablets they'll be happy.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 17th, 2008 at 07:06:54 AM EST
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Re: "Eat food. Not too much. (none / 1)

It used to be the popular wisdom around here, when shopping for fruit in the local market, that one would prefer those who shown signs of being picked by birds... a sign for taste and sweetness.

Now get that into a supermarket or regulation...

by Torres on Thu Apr 17th, 2008 at 10:43:54 AM EST
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Re: "Eat food. Not too much. (none / 1)

One of the advantages of organic produce is that it usually tastes of something.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Apr 17th, 2008 at 04:53:47 PM EST
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