Comments on: "Get the facts!" http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/ Game and Software Development, plus other stuff Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:22:19 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: johanna http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-73 johanna Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:55:23 +0000 http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/#comment-73 That wasn't clear in what you said: "I just get enraged when I see things like food safety discussions taking wild detours into things like environmental issues, or, my favorite, politics." Food safety is connected to environmental issues, too: why the tomato recall? Because of groundwater contamination from CAFOs (ie. animal shit from factory farms), etc. etc. ad nauseum. Hardly "wild detours." That wasn’t clear in what you said:
“I just get enraged when I see things like food safety discussions taking wild detours into things like environmental issues, or, my favorite, politics.”

Food safety is connected to environmental issues, too: why the tomato recall? Because of groundwater contamination from CAFOs (ie. animal shit from factory farms), etc. etc. ad nauseum.

Hardly “wild detours.”

]]> By: Erik Novales http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Erik Novales Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:42:03 +0000 http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/#comment-71 I meant cases where someone's debating skills are limited to screaming "FASCIST!". Well-researched, reasoned, and well-written thoughts are, as always, exempt from my bile. I meant cases where someone’s debating skills are limited to screaming “FASCIST!”.

Well-researched, reasoned, and well-written thoughts are, as always, exempt from my bile.

]]> By: johanna http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-69 johanna Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:32:53 +0000 http://www.eriknovales.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/16/get-the-facts/#comment-69 Food safety issues are, actually, connected w/politics. Marion Nestle, just to name one person, has written a whole tome about this. Food safety issues are, actually, connected w/politics. Marion Nestle, just to name one person, has written a whole tome about this.

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