[ExI] Food (was: Re: morality)

[Keith Henson]

A note on corn is that 40% of it is eaten by cars as ethanol.

Keith

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 1:22 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
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> It's interesting to consider the effects resulting from market forces as applied to diets.
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> It seems to me that whatever is grown will be eaten in the same proportion as food is produced. If there's say, for example, an abundance of corn grown, its price will fall until food manufacturers/consumers buy it up because it's just so much cheaper than other ingredients.
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> Perhaps this (partially) explains how we've gotten to the point where corn syrup is in almost every shelf-stable food. Not to mention that corn is the most efficient photosynthetic crop humans have (hence will tend to be the cheapest calorie source and also the most profitable use of land for those able to grow it).
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> Jason
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> On Fri, May 19, 2023, 12:35 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On 19/05/2023 16:50, billw wrote:
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>> There is nothing wrong with a good hamburger, unless you eat one every day.  French fries are another story.  bill w
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>> There's nothing wrong with a good hamburger, full stop. It's the bun that comes with it that does the damage. And the chips ('french fries' if you live in the colonies).
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>> Constantly bombarding your body with carbs leads to obesity and insulin resistance, which leads to type II diabetes which leads to death.
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>> Protein and fat (hamburgers!) are satiating, carbs aren't. Most people would lose weight rapidly (and get off the insulin rollercoaster) if they just ate hamburgers.
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>> You know how there are essential amino acids, and essential fatty acids? There's no such thing as essential carbohydrates. Eskimos are testament to that.
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>> Ben
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