On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:07:59 -0500, Dave Smith wrote:

> merryb wrote:
>> I'm so disgusted by the treatment by Kelloggs towards Michael Phelps.
>> He made a mistake by letting someone take a picture of him while he was
>> taking a bong hit, but this is ridiculous! It didn't enhance his
>> performance, and it had nothing to do with his swimming abilities. I
>> guess it's the image thing, but still, I'm boycotting Kelloggs.
>> Kelloggs is a food manufacturing company, so I didn't label this as
>> OT...Do any of you agree with me?
>
>
> I think I already am. I can't think of any of their products that I buy.
> The only cold cereal I buy is Shredded Wheat. While the price of that
> has increased over the last year or so, others have got ridiculously
> expensive..... for mushed up and dried cereal grains. I am back into
> oatmeal and cream of wheat for expensive. A 1 kg bag of oatmeal costs
> about half the price of a box of cereal and lasts 4 times longer.

And a damned sight better for you.

Anything Kellogs shoves in a box (with the unnaturally long shelf-life
and all that goes with that) is little more than denatured empty carbs
made infinitely worse with added sugar.

> I don't understand why athletes get sanctioned for smoking pot. No one
> worries if they get drunk.

Therein lies the hypocrisy...

> Some say they call it dope because it makes
> you stupid and impairs performance. Sports organizations ban performance
> enhancing drugs. Does this mean that marijuana is a performance
> enhancing drug?

Therein lies the hypocrisy...


The REAL problem with marijuana is that it is a naturally occurring
product, and thus GovCo (government-big business) cannot gain exclusive
control of it via patents and other intellectual rights protection
mechanisms.


Notice how natural products gets a hard time - especially in the U.S?

The FDA puts tight controls on *any* natural product that is harmless,
and competes with GovCo, especially if it starts to become popular.

One that always springs to my mind is Stevia. Its *completely* harmless
but the FDA has come up with all manner of ridiculous bullshit to curb
it's sale and distribution.