tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post5642900639471023053..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A prohibitionist writesChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-58912764079103787942012-02-19T16:38:55.071+00:002012-02-19T16:38:55.071+00:00"This is the rhetoric of every totalitarian—t...<i>"This is the rhetoric of every totalitarian—that "true" freedom comes from restricting freedom."</i><br /><br /><b>"Arbeit Macht Frei"</b>nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-89378834381006221612012-02-19T13:10:41.371+00:002012-02-19T13:10:41.371+00:00I am so incensed I don't know where to begin. ...I am so incensed I don't know where to begin. I wonder if any of these idiots have given a single moments thought to parts of the world where being "free" to grow your own food or anything else for that matter, would not do you one iota of good. I live in the arctic, the fucking arctic guys are you listening. It takes huge areas of land and immense labour to generate a crop here, storage is a problem too. The food industry has generated efficient production techniques, storage technologies that extend shelf life and reduce waste, including methods for reprocessing minimal value raw materials such as surimi and reconstituted meat. Oh, how horrid, the well padded middle classes shout, reconstituted meat, oh how awful, oh that terrible BIG FOOD, (BIG OIL, BIG TOBACCO) BIG WHATEVER NEXT. A significant proportion of the worlds population lives in areas that ARE NOT fertile, temperate and effortlessly productive. WE NEED food processing and preservation technologies, we do not need back to nature fantasists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-30736662379217742012012-02-19T12:30:04.950+00:002012-02-19T12:30:04.950+00:00The next "logical" step.
"Research...The next "logical" step.<br /><br />"Researchers at East Malling Research are helping to grow genetically-modified tobacco plants which give off a potentially life-saving drug through their roots."<br /><br />"Tobacco is an ideal non-food crop for this research, thanks to the speed it grows and matures and our deep knowledge of its physiology and transformability, which has been the focus of scientific attention for more than 20 years."<br />http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/december/12/tobacco_promises_hope.aspxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-20425095847294846852012-02-19T11:59:45.836+00:002012-02-19T11:59:45.836+00:00Could you imagine, just for a moment, if Proctor&#...Could you imagine, just for a moment, if Proctor's "free to grow your own" abolition movement succeeds. Imagine, please, the prohibitionists moving on to the next "logical" phase of their movement: attacking the seed sellers. "You're selling seeds of death! Cancer-seed merchants!" So, then, we would then ultimately end up with yet another ban, with militarised SWAT teams raiding people's homes and greenhouses, to rid the world of the evil tobacco plant epidemic. All in the name of public health. You can stop imagining now.Jaynoreply@blogger.com