From your post below, I'm not sure if you're asking what foods people avoid for political reasons or if you're asking what's a political reason as opposed to a religious or health one.
Answer (C) All of the above. I asked several questions.
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The more I think about this, the more I'm unsure of any of my motives. I'm positive I avoid salmon for health reasons. (It gives me a sore throat and makes me breathless.) I'm not sure exactly why I avoid McDonalds. It doesn't make me feel too great though I'm sure it wouldn't kill me if I were starving, and I've been known to eat other foods that aren't good for me. I don't care for the taste of the burgers though the fries and shakes are less objectionable. I also don't like the idea of the giant conglomerate on every corner though that feeling is as vague as my other reasons. Does that count as a political food avoidance?
If you feel that avoidance is to make a stand against corporatisation, I guess that's a political reason. But I'm not sure, as I asked the question.
I was wondering though, what sort of things won't people eat, for political (not religoius) reasons. I'm not interested in kosha or halal but more the kind of thing like not eating foie gras.
Oh, cuz you mean, like, I hate the whimpy unAmerican French so I won't eat their liverwurst? But you don't care WHY I don't eat halal? Why for?
Because I didn't want anyone to get into a religious argument.
I have no comment on the unAmerican French, I'm from New Zealand. We were a victim of state-sponsored French terrorism when they blew up a boat in our harbour and killed someone. But I like eating lamb's brains with bacon on toast. Go figure? :-)
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But I absolutely love blood pudding and boiled dinners since Blair put everything on the line to back Uncle Sam n the Iraq Conflict, right?
My wife is Irish; neither of us like blood pudding. But I love the crusty bloody gravy bits under a roast.
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Of course, as with all things political, my terms are subject to change without notice.
Oh, I reserve that right as well. I never claim to be consistent. :-)
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Are vegetarians going to change the world? Meat is murder, right?
Certainly they will. No good can come of killing all those vegetables!
Put them into boiling water slowly; hear them scream!
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I avoid dog because I was raised in a culture that keeps dogs as pets, so eating a dog is icky to me. But I think nothing of eating rabiit. I've known the occasional person who's kept a rabbit as a pet but they are mostly wild animals or food/fur animals. Realistically, I view my refusal to eat dog as politically motivated if I expand what "political" means widely enough.
I was at a rabbit show in my student years. I was prodding a fluffy black thing through the wires of the cage and commented to my friend how good that would be in a casserole. Unfortunately, my friend had wandered off and it was the rabbit's owner standing beside me!
I was wondering though, what sort of things won't people eat, for political (not religoius) reasons. I'm not interested in kosha or halal but more the kind of thing like not eating foie gras.
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Not me. If it stands still long enough I'll eat it, and if it moves I'll hit it with a stick until it stops, then eat it.
Hah! My dad and his brothers are that way too, perhaps because they were raised during the depression. I honestly think my dad and his brothers will any anything that's organic. They look at me strange because I have a long list of foods I dislike such as: liver, frog's legs, eggplant, kidney, beets, brocolli, most melons, strawberries, most fish, turtle, squid, and so on. My dad and his two brothers are willing to try any food, but they do tend to shy away from high carb and high fat foods, just for health reasons, otherwise, if its organic, it is a food source.
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Unfortunately I do not have too much knowledge which food is produced by manufacturers having a secret-recipe policy. Examples are welcome. Cocacola is one thing I don't drink for this reason (and another reason being that water with sugar is so much cheaper while having the same substantial value).
Kentucky Fried Chicken. -- Donna A pessimist believes all women are bad. An optimist hopes they are.
I am not going to eat any food which recipe is kept by the manufacturer in secret.
It is a political reason: I care about the freedom to share recipes, to make changes in them, to make others improve the process. If the manufacturer is keeping the recipe in secret he prevents creativity of other people. He makes more people working only like machines reproducing his dish. Humans deserve to be given freedom of creativity. He prevents his workers sharing knowledge with his friends, as he probably had them sign an NDA. So he is forcing them to be less friendly. And finally he stops scientific progress of mankind.
Unfortunately I do not have too much knowledge which food is produced by manufacturers having a secret-recipe policy. Examples are welcome. Cocacola is one thing I don't drink for this reason (and another reason being that water with sugar is so much cheaper while having the same substantial value).
Miernik
Bush's baked beans. I'm going to kidnap that dog and he *will* be telling.
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and I finally worked up my courage to try the lactose- intolerant relief pills. Woo-hah, corn chowder here I come.
Do they work well? I bought them once, they were rather expensive and you had to take like eight of them or something. Just curious.
nancy
I'm not lactose intolerant but I have friends that are. I was wondering the same thing, Nancy. I wonder how they work. I might serve 'em up as appetizers next time I have them over for Fettucini Alfredo.
Michael
-- Deathbed statement...
"Codeine . . . bourbon." ~~Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968
Not eating at McDonald's or Burger King is a nutritional/food quality issue, at least for me. Not eating Domino's pizza is my food politics issue, because the founder/head honcho holds views and funds causes diametrically opposed to my views and causes. One can argue that the franchisee in my neighborhood may be a good Seattle liberal, but a portion of those profits still go back into the head honcho's pockets.
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And all your friends who are holding stock in the company. Like taking money out of their packet, isn't it?
Another poster on this newsgroup won't use lard/fat for cooking, as it doesn't match their food politics. Fair enough, I say.
I was wondering though, what sort of things won't people eat, for political (not religoius) reasons. I'm not interested in kosha or halal but more the kind of thing like not eating foie gras.
Not eating dog, horse, or foie gras is a cultural/animal rights issue. Not eating at McDonald's or Burger King is a nutritional/food quality issue, at least for me. Not eating Domino's pizza is my food politics issue, because the founder/head honcho holds views and funds causes diametrically opposed to my views and causes. One can argue that the franchisee in my neighborhood may be a good Seattle liberal, but a portion of those profits still go back into the head honcho's pockets.
Cindy
And all your friends who are holding stock in the company. Like taking money out of their packet, isn't it?
Dominos is just now getting around to an IPO, which means the stock is currently not publicly held.
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Except, for some reason, insects. The idea of eating insects makes me shudder (I know I'm wrong here; honeyed locusts and witchetty grubs are perfectly good, but I'm shuddering as I type that!)
I'll broaden my statement to "The idea of eating insects, annelids, arachnids, helminths and similar creatures (but not molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms) makes me shudder".
Hah! My dad and his brothers are that way too, perhaps because they were raised during the depression. I honestly think my dad and his brothers will eat any anything that's organic.
I'd say the Depression had the opposite effect on eating habits. My mother-in-law has said that they learned to eat everything during the Depression because there wasn't anything else, but they really got little variety compared to what's available today. When offered shellfish in a Chinese restaurant, she refuses it. That's normal enough for people who grew up not eating it and not knowing anyone who did, but I was surprised when she showed no interest in trying a mild goat cheese. It was simply too weird for her.
Hah! My dad and his brothers are that way too, perhaps because they were raised during the depression. I honestly think my dad and his brothers will any anything that's organic.
I don't think I'd go quite that far. Styrofoam's organic, but I do draw the line at McDonald's burger buns.
I'm not lactose intolerant but I have friends that are. I was wondering the same thing, Nancy. I wonder how they work. I might serve 'em up as appetizers next time I have them over for Fettucini Alfredo.
If I take one or two Lactaid pills I can have a serving of whipped cream.
Not eating at McDonald's or Burger King is a nutritional/food quality issue, at least for me. Not eating Domino's pizza is my food politics issue, because the founder/head honcho holds views and funds causes diametrically opposed to my views and causes. One can argue that the franchisee in my neighborhood may be a good Seattle liberal, but a portion of those profits still go back into the head honcho's pockets.
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And all your friends who are holding stock in the company. Like taking money out of their packet, isn't it?
I fail to see your point.
nancy
Obviously it went over your head. If your liberal friends were holding any Dominos stock (undergoing an IPO right now, granted, and they cannot own stock. . . but if they did) you would be denying your own friends a return on their investment just to get back at one person you disagree with. Sorta like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
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Hah! My dad and his brothers are that way too, perhaps because they were raised during the depression. I honestly think my dad and his brothers will eat any anything that's organic.
I'd say the Depression had the opposite effect on eating habits. My mother-in-law has said that they learned to eat everything during the Depression because there wasn't anything else, but they really got little variety compared to what's available today. When offered shellfish in a Chinese restaurant, she refuses it. That's normal enough for people who grew up not eating it and not knowing anyone who did, but I was surprised when she showed no interest in trying a mild goat cheese. It was simply too weird for her.
--Lia
My mother was born in 1928 and she will try *anything*. Her father used to go to the old (they tore it down in the early to mid 1980's) Stop & Shop in the Chicago Loop at least once a week and would always bring home "weird" food (for the 1930's) like avocado, boar, buffalo, any variety of organ meat etc. We were in Italy once in a restaurant in Piemonte and a word that I had never heard before was used by the waiter to describe a special appetizer. All I could tell her (she doesn't speak Italian) was that it was veal something in a green sauce. Turned out the word for the dish was in dialect and it was veal testicles in green sauce. I could *not* make myself eat it but mom thought it delicious. I know she's eaten insects on their travels, again, something I can't make myself try. I don't think this was affected one bit by the depression other than she abhors waste of any kind. Eating for her as a child was always an adventure because of her father - he was a telegrapher by training and worked for the Chicago Tribune covering sporting events all around the country. He'd visit all the ethnic haunts in every city he was assigned to follow a ball game. He acquired some very interesting tastes and his daughter was the only one who would try them at home with him. My Irish grandmother would just shrug and prepare other food for her and my uncle when something "weird" was brought home.
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I'm not lactose intolerant but I have friends that are. I was wondering the same thing, Nancy. I wonder how they work. I might serve 'em up as appetizers next time I have them over for Fettucini Alfredo.
If I take one or two Lactaid pills I can have a serving of whipped cream.
A big serving or do you still have to watch your intake? One of my friends that is lactose intolerant loves ice cream. I didn't realize how acute this condition can be until I was stuck with him one afternoon when he polished off a triple scoop of mocha almond fudge. He got very sick to his stomach and had the most horrible gas. I'm not kidding, I had to leave the car.
Michael -- Deathbed statement...
"Codeine . . . bourbon." ~~Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968
And all your friends who are holding stock in the company. Like taking money out of their packet, isn't it?
I fail to see your point.
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Obviously it went over your head. If your liberal friends were holding any Dominos stock (undergoing an IPO right now, granted, and they cannot own stock. . . but if they did) you would be denying your own friends a return on their investment just to get back at one person you disagree with. Sorta like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I couldn't believe you really meant that, I thought I *must* really have missed your point. It's so ridiculous I don't know what to say in response. At the very least I don't owe anyone profits on the stocks they choose. Not even family members. Like, oh, my brother has Dominoes stock, let me order one of their disgusting pizzas? Sorry, bro, that's a no.
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>Not eating at McDonald's or Burger King is a >nutritional/food quality issue, at least for me. Not >eating Domino's pizza is my food politics issue, >because the founder/head honcho holds views and funds >causes diametrically opposed to my views and causes. >One can argue that the franchisee in my neighborhood >may be a good Seattle liberal, but a portion of those >profits still go back into the head honcho's pockets.
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And all your friends who are holding stock in the company. Like taking money out of their packet, isn't it?
I fail to see your point.
nancy
Obviously it went over your head. If your liberal friends were holding any Dominos stock (undergoing an IPO right now, granted, and they cannot own stock. . . but if they did) you would be denying your own friends a return on their investment just to get back at one person you disagree with. Sorta like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
jim
You're kidding, right? I have to put my own personal preferences aside in order to puff up the portfolio of a friend? What planet do you live on?
-- Donna A pessimist believes all women are bad. An optimist hopes they are.
>And all your friends who are holding stock in the >company. Like taking money out of their packet, >isn't it?
I fail to see your point.
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Obviously it went over your head. If your liberal friends were holding any Dominos stock (undergoing an IPO right now, granted, and they cannot own stock. . . but if they did) you would be denying your own friends a return on their investment just to get back at one person you disagree with. Sorta like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I couldn't believe you really meant that, I thought I *must* really have missed your point. It's so ridiculous I don't know what to say in response. At the very least I don't owe anyone profits on the stocks they choose. Not even family members. Like, oh, my brother has Dominoes stock, let me order one of their disgusting pizzas? Sorry, bro, that's a no.
nancy
Nancy, I own a few shares of Seven Eleven, and I'm beggin you to buy a Big Gulp. Please. Do it for me.
