My Conspiracy Theories
1. China is facing an imbalance in male/female ratios. In about 10 years there is going to be a war for women. The article says that for every 100 girls born there are 120 boys born. Now multiply that by a billion people in China. Yeah that is a lot of men with no prospect for a wife at all, let alone one that they find physically/mentally/emotionally attractive.
2. I like to call this my Crowded Room Theory. Take a room of any size and start inserting people into it. At some point the room will become noticably warmer with every person shoved in. Now imagine that the earth is a room and we have over 6 billion people in it. that is compared to just under 2 billion in 1900. We more than tripled how crowded the room was in about 100 years. Could body heat be the culprit behind global warming.
3. Milk bottlers put a chemical in the milt to make it go sour after a few days to ensure that people are constantly buying their product. The government lets this happen because the states get sales tax on every sale.
Yes, they are a little cooky, but so am I.
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When reading all of this, I though, "Yep. Sounds about right." Which I guess makes me some sort of co-conspirator or something.
also you made the [culture is good] page!
Congrats on the culture page! That's how I found you because I love to hear conspiracy theories and possible kookiness.
As for milk, keep it sealed, keep it cold. You can buy the super-ultra-pasteurized stuff that has a shelflife of seemingly forever. I've heard cardboard cartons are better than plastic, too.
I grew up on a dairy farm with non-pasteurized, non-homogenized milk. We had to go down to the barn to get it straight from the tank every morning and it had a fridge-life of a day and a half, max. But we drank it fast enough it wasn't an issue.
To this day, I still shake the milk jug before I pour, to mix the cream back in and all. As if my skim milk had any milk solids left in it anyway.
Keep in mind soy milk isn't the same as dairy milk. It's made from plants. Completely different chemical composition. I don't know much about soy milk, but I've heard margarine can sit out forever without changing. It's one or two steps removed from plastic. Maybe that's another conspiracy theory Budd can explore! (Because I'm too lazy to check it out myself...)
Organic dairy milk should still be processed the same, so I'm not sure the shelf life. I can usually get a week out of a gallon jug before it goes bad. But that's skim milk, which has almost nothing in it that goes bad (like butterfat).
I've been buying organic for about 6 months now and it lasts me up to two weeks... and it tastes better in my opinion.
Soy milk is kinda gross, but okay if your desperate for coffee creamer or something to wet the cereal.
Thanks for the tip on organic! I'll have to pick it up when I see it next time at the store.
Totally agree with you re: soy milk.
Here's my observation living in a full blend of a multicultural society.
Most Chinese men will prefer to find a Chinese woman for a companion, but most women are more open minded in what they look for. [note; I sid most in both references, not all]
I have more observations....but tell me, have you noticed this as well?
Use of faulty logic to 'prove' point: Ever see a refrigerated cow? I didn't think so. Q.E.D.
Also couldn't Chinese men emigrate?
Not too sure about the milk but it is always nice to have a fresh cup.
LOL! Yeah, that's a pretty kooky theory. One with no scientific basis to back it up. I grew up drinking raw milk and no, it doesn't last long. There are too many things in it you don't want to know about that will make you sick. Because we had it every day, we had a tolerance to the bad bacteria. People want to believe going raw is better, but there's a reason for pasteurization. It's to reduce incidents of illness from the quick-growing bad stuff.
The Amish are selling it to individuals because people want it and they're going where the market is, not because they are offering a better product. Hey, if people will pay, why not? Free market economy and all that jazz.
I do prefer the taste of it to the processed milk, but that's because raw milk still has the fats in it. Or to be precise, the milk solids. I won't drink raw right now because I've been away from it too long.
As for the percentage - it's how much of the milk is fat content. So 1% is the fat content. Different breeds of dairy cows have different milk solids output - Jerseys - high in butterfat, Swiss - high in protein, Holsteins - low in solids but high volume. But now I'm showing my cow-nerdliness...
Milk is a simple food and because it's such a staple in most diets, it lends itself to a lot of conspiracy theories. Also, as more people go urban and only have contact with their food at the store, they become more suspicious as to where that food comes from - if they even give it a thought.
As more consumers make an effort to understand the source and make choices with that information, then we'll see changes in food production.
I'll be worried when milk doesn't go bad. :)
Totally agree with the global warming theory though..... now what? lol
Laundry detergent; the scourge of humankind.
We're melting from the inside. Many people smell like they're already in a state of advanced decay. Going naked is visual pollution and only the quantity surveyors with the strongest stomachs are in favour of it. That explains why nudist colonies are full of chubby and ... erm ... naked people. It's a QS and soap industries power-sharing plot. We're doomed. DOOMED, I tell you! Soap manufacturers and quantity surveyors are battling to take over the world and we're trapped between these evil entities.
Bud, you are way out on a limb with your comments. I recently traveled for three months in India and Egypt. Most of the natives smell like decaying flesh. There are very few healthy people past age 40. They suffer from parasite infestations,and many different forms of skin disease. They probably wish they had soap to wash their clothes in. Soap is the first defense we have against germs. When I was traveling, I made a gift of a bar of Ivory soap to a native family, they were so greatful for the gift.
Soap does not make you fat. Take a bite. You will develop diarrhea and emesis. Fast food, too much sugar and bleached flour makes us fat.
I hope you will get the chance to travel in some third world countries. I think you will come away greatful for soap, and all the other priviliges of living in this great country.
Yours in friendship, Eleanor
Sounds like you've checked out your raw milk source. To sell Grade A milk, there are stringent sanitary requirements. We would get people at the state fair asking for milk straight out of the can. Gross! That milk was in a not-terribly controlled environment and wasn't guaranteed safe for human consumption.
I still wouldn't recommend it, but stay on top of your source's production, transport and sanitation steps. Family and small dairies are in the biz because they love it and understand the public responsibility they have.
Plus, they love cows and work hard to make sure they are happy and healthy.
Organic milk is irradiated (they dun tell you that on the box) because it has to sit on the shelf longer to be profitable. That's why it lasts longer.
I lived in China for 6 years, India for 15 months, Malaysia for 8 months, East Timor for 8 months, Zimbabwe for a year, Afghanistan for 6 months and Iraq for 7 months but your three month holiday beats my experience hands-down. Thank God for instant experts! I enjoy the privileges of living in this great country of Australia. We're allowed to have a sense of humour.
Here's my next conspiracy theory. You're part of the global cabal who want us all arrested for running around naked under our clothes. :)