<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">There is a book called Frozen in Time, about Clarence Birdseye - author Mark Kurlansky (who has written several excellent nonfiction books). Very interesting man, Birdseye - very inventive. Perhaps the main man in developing frozen food for shipping. We still have his brand in the stores. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 4:52 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thank you very much for the story and the recommendation! I am generally <br>
more of a book reader than a movie watcher, so I will definitely add it to <br>
my "to buy" list. =)<br>
<br>
But the story does remind me of sugar filled Tony Tiger moments of my <br>
childhood. ;)<br>
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But that's another aspect I find very fascinating with US business life. <br>
Some companies have such a strong connection with Christianity. I read up <br>
on chik-fil-a and apparently the CEO was very strongly against gay <br>
marriage and spoke up, and cause a lot of controversy (according to <br>
wikipedia).<br>
<br>
I received a Buck knife as a gift some years ago, and on a note in the box <br>
it said that Jesus was their most important board member who they turn to <br>
in difficult moments.<br>
<br>
I have never experienced such a strong religious connection in any company <br>
I worked for in europe.<br>
<br>
There's also this web site: <a href="https://www.weboycott.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.weboycott.net/</a> and I imagine that <br>
there are plenty of "value driven" companies there.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Daniel<br>
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On Fri, 19 May 2023, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>><br>
> ...<br>
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>> ...Next post. spike<br>
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>> ...Daniel, there is a book called Road to Wellville by Coraghessan Boyle, a<br>
> very talented writer who produced a fine historical comedy as his rooky<br>
> card. The movie version was entertaining as all hell and was filled with<br>
> carefully-researched historical accuracy. It was about John Harvey Kellogg<br>
> and his quirky ways, how he started the breakfast food industry...spike<br>
><br>
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> It has been nearly 30 years since I saw the Wellville movie, so I rented it<br>
> and found my perspective has changed a lot. I remembered the movie as much<br>
> funnier than it is: if it is to be called historical comedy, it is dark<br>
> comedy indeed. Back in those more carefree days 30 years ago, everything<br>
> was funny to me. I read the book after seeing the film and realized the<br>
> film contains a number of fairly big historical inaccuracies that were not<br>
> in the book. Kellogg didn't die in his 70s demonstrating a dive. He died<br>
> of pneumonia at age 91.<br>
><br>
> In the book, Kellogg tried to cure asthma by having patients breathe...<br>
> radon. That part is historically accurate: Kellogg really did that at his<br>
> health institution. It is unclear how many patients he killed that way, for<br>
> many of them would have developed lung cancer some few years later. In the<br>
> movie version, Matthew Broderick's love interest (Lara Flynn Boyle) was<br>
> suffering "green sickness" which is now called chlorosis or hypochromic<br>
> anemia. In those days it was thought green sickness was caused by female<br>
> virginity. So... Boyle arranges with Broderick to cure that, but in the<br>
> book she was being treated by inhaling radon. When the cure makes the<br>
> problem worse, they compensate by using more of it until Ida Muntz perishes.<br>
> Hey, Hollywood. They needed to sex up a good book in order to make a movie.<br>
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> In retrospect, I am hesitant to recommend the movie. The book is excellent<br>
> however, if one is interested in that kind of thing.<br>
><br>
> spike<br>
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