Cycling:
http://www.bigringriding.com/, not a huge archive but after RyanTKelly tweeted the link the server kept crashing as all 17 of his followers proceeded to browse the whole site this morning. (check his latest web log entry - more fodder to fire at the upgrade afraid).
Be Bad, Ride better?
#1 - got it, no problem there, will remember to vocalize it next time
#2 - no problem, I can stretch the shower bit, a little, or actually probably a lot farther than I'm comfortable with.
#3 - that extra 7.2 minutes might be the difference i need - PASS ME A BEER!
#4 - how about a whole bottle of the stuff?
#5 - oh yeah THREE IN A ROW, BRILLIANT!!!!
#6 - already doing that and my blood numbers are better than most healthy 20 year old kids.
#7 - this i could certainly do more of, the sleeping thing...
#8 - if you say so
#9 - bring it on
#10 - oh now this might get me in trouble but, hey, those look like good number boosts...
Enough about that... Food links
Perils of Cheap Seafood (please don't buy farmed salmon - it tastes like cardboard and probably isn't much better for you and right now it really fucks with the ecosystem).
People with kids take notice - and if you don't have em and know someone who does - bug em.
oh and
FUCKING FRENCH FRIES ARE NOT A FUCKING VEGGIE FOR FUCKS SAKE PEOPLE!
They are pasta, white rice, except worse, loaded with fat and bitching amounts of sodium. Good if you just did 4 hours of riding in the middle of the summer, not so good if you're a fat ass sitting on the couch watching TV for hours a day.
Not a very good chance you'll get listeria and die from buying your veggies at the farmers's market... but at the store that buys the cheapest price point veggie? watch the heck out.
So after that wonderful bit of people dieing because of tainted veggies, how about this SHOCKING news:
Food inspection is often Flawed? NO SHIT!!!???
yeah
i had a cup of coffee today, can you tell?
heddwch
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I became so tired of the arguments for farmed salmon and arguments against, both of which seem equally valid, that I simply stopped buying salmon. Now I only buy whole fish and do with it as I may, AT HOME. It might not have the extraordinary fats of salmon, but at least I don't feel like an asshole for eating it.
As for food inspection being flawed, I couldn't stand to read the entire article. From my experience, the basic fact is that supervisors of product-producing lines get paid by the poundage out the door. And that means cutting corners to any extent that Quality allows (aka does not observe).
Even in plants that cannot, by law, function without a regulatory inspector in-house, where there is automatically an entire department of Quality Assurance/Control personnel, consumers are going to get screwed when it comes to the quality of the products they buy.
Manufacturing personnel are paid by pound; Quality is paid shit per hour. There is one Quality person per manufacturing room that generates thousands upon thousands of product per hour. It's physically impossible for one QA/QC to inspect every single item going off each line. Assuming your Quality Person actually gives a shit, consumers are still screwed as that one QA/QC person can only catch so much shit before it goes out.
Until manufacturing personnel has serious repurcussions of generating crap product, it's all about a single QA/QC person trying to manage millions of pounds per shift.
That doesn't even bring me to food handling at the grocery store. I don't know how many times I've seen milky meats in the "butcher/meat" section that people willingly put into their carts. I used to try telling those consumers that the specific package of product is not a good one, that he/she would be better off going back for a different package, only to get chewed out because "that's the kind they always buy".
Oh, so you only buy bacteria-
laden, semi-rotten, processed meats due to an improper form-fill package for you and your family? Rock on.
There's at least 1,000 miles from where your food product was raised to where it is manufactured, aka, cleaned up for consumption, handled at the store and then to your home.
If you can clean it at home and keep it clean, you're doing better than most.
Oh, and GeWilli, I would not have come across this post had you not implemented the "Food" label.
I love the Food label!
Excellent point about the fries, Gewill.
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