Narcissism and the modern Western male

[a447]

What a great article!

The comment about Lewis Hamilton "going 'plant-based' because of his fears for the planet" is particularly ironic, given that his job involves introducing enormous amounts of harmful carbon emissions into the atmosphere!

As for vegans, there is a group who appear every weekend in a downtown shopping mall. They stand in a circle next to a large banner displaying their beliefs, holding laptops depicting the cruelty we inflict on animals. How dare we kill them for our own selfish desires!

A month or so ago I was accosted by one of them - a pale, wrinkled, decidedly sickly-looking woman in her twenties extolling to me the virtues of her lifestyle. I immediately noticed that she was wearing a pendant on a woven leather cord. I then looked down to see what the protesters were wearing on their feet and surprise surprise - many of them were wearing leather shoes!

On pointing out the blatant hypocrisy, her only defence -after a long, embarrassing silence- was that they had all bought their leather products before they had embraced veganism and considered it a waste of money to dispose of them.

Hypocrites, one and alł! Some people have way too much time on their hands.

[frequent]

Hypocrites, one and alł! Some people have way too much time on their hands.

I thought you might enjoy this article on the organic food con game and all the muggins who are taken in by it - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is...ier-2016-12-01

[paborn]

Excellent article, but where do you find the time?

[frequent]

Excellent article, but where do you find the time?

Flipboard

[frequent]

Another twist, this time about those who think they can enforce what "organic" means: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/d...areburger.html. Summary - "The term doesn’t mean much in restaurants, which are not required to undergo the same rigorous certifying process as farms and food companies." I'd have rebranded the restaurant chain "Barebacker" but in the politically correct world of the New York Times I guess that would be unacceptable

[paborn]

There are frequent discussions in the US press about how certain we can be about what "organic" means especially in labeling. So much discussion that I've started to think that all Organic, in th US, simply means it is not mineral.

[frequent]

There are frequent discussions in the US press about how certain we can be about what "organic" means especially in labeling. So much discussion that I've started to think that all Organic, in th US, simply means it is not mineral.

Yet we have this sort of mineral product which is, quite frankly, complete nonsense - http://thompsonsnutrition.com.au/pro...-zinc-tablets/

[paborn]

Well, I guess can't even have that modicum of complacency anymore if zinc is now "organic".