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  1. “If the only “restaurant” you’ve ever been in is a Macdo, what are you going to do when a boss/work colleague/potential connection asks you to have lunch at a real restaurant?”

    Ask them if they have a “Happy Meal” special!

  2. “Don’t let crumudgoness get in the way of a sound investment.”

    Don’t let greed get in the way of your morals.

    When I see how much money people around me waste on eating that crap (as well as every other fast food brand out there – we’ve got ’em all (almost), right here on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Flatbush Ave.), and the effect this lifestyle has on people, I want to cry.

    It’s clear fast food operators prey on the lower classes, who are less-educated and have less access to information about how bad this stuff is for one, nutritionally and economically, but also socially – if a family’s only meals come from fast food (and there are many families that meet this description), when does it ever actually get to be a family? If the only “restaurant” you’ve ever been in is a Macdo, what are you going to do when a boss/work colleague/potential connection asks you to have lunch at a real restaurant?

  3. Yes, dh, Grand Pa apparently soiled his depends as well!!!!

    No one said anything about McDonald’s, Grand Pa. But i do own the stock. You should check it out…it yields more than you retirement CDs and the dividend is growing fast since it’s such a great global brand.

    Don’t let crumudgoness get in the way of a sound investment.

  4. DIBS-

    There is plenty of human manure that can be used for composting purposes. We can start with half of your postings on this blog.

    No one is stopping you from eating at McDonalds, an activity that is definitely not sustainable, either environmentally or healthwise.

  5. “no carts or stands” so in other words “I only want to visit the overly twee ridiculous hipster trucks that have opened in the last year.” (ya i know some of them are pretty good but still…)

  6. “Do you know how utterly uneconomic is the process of organic farming?”

    Stopping chopping down trees in rainforests is also uneconomic, but it doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. Sometimes there are more important goals than money.

  7. On organic food:

    Do you know how utterly uneconomic is
    the process of organic farming? Quoting
    from Prof. Robert Pararlbert, the B.F. Johnson
    Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College who
    is also an associate Professor at Harvard’s
    Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, on
    organic farming. He wrote recently that:

    “Less than 1 percent of American cropland is
    under certified organic production. If the other
    99 per cent were to switch to organic and had
    to fertilize crop without any synthetic fertilizers
    that would require a lot more composted
    animal manure. To supply enough organic
    fertiliser, the US cattle population would have
    to increase roughly fivefold. And because
    those animals would have to be raised
    organically on forage crops, much of the land
    in the lower 48 states would need to be
    converted to pasture. Organic field crops also
    have lower yields per hectare. If Europe tried
    to feed itself organically, it would need an
    additional 28 million hectares of crop land,
    equal to all of the remaining forest cover in
    France, Germany, Britain and Denmark
    combined.”

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