Comments on: Hi I’m Bio, and I’m Genetically Engineered http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/08/29/hi-im-bio-and-im-genetically-engineered/ Everything RJA Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:26:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ash http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/08/29/hi-im-bio-and-im-genetically-engineered/comment-page-1/#comment-2457 Ash Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:27:46 +0000 http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/?p=1689#comment-2457 Organic produce that has an edible skin, especially lettuce, berries, etc., are items that should be organic. Harmful chemicals can hide in all of those little nooks and crannies. Things like bananas, toilet paper, make-up...seems kind of ridiculous. But more often than not, I lean for organic when it comes to food. Other debates? Sustainability, completely and 100% for. Also, when Americans complain, "This is America, learn English! We don't have to accommodate for you!" due to the infiltration of Spanish. I get very defensive and upset because not only is learning a second language extremely difficult but because our country is based on a nation of immigrants. There are many others but it's bed time and I don't want to get worked up! haha PS: Hippies are pretty cool. Organic produce that has an edible skin, especially lettuce, berries, etc., are items that should be organic. Harmful chemicals can hide in all of those little nooks and crannies. Things like bananas, toilet paper, make-up…seems kind of ridiculous. But more often than not, I lean for organic when it comes to food.

Other debates? Sustainability, completely and 100% for. Also, when Americans complain, “This is America, learn English! We don’t have to accommodate for you!” due to the infiltration of Spanish. I get very defensive and upset because not only is learning a second language extremely difficult but because our country is based on a nation of immigrants. There are many others but it’s bed time and I don’t want to get worked up! haha

PS: Hippies are pretty cool.

]]> By: You Look Like A Nail http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/2009/08/29/hi-im-bio-and-im-genetically-engineered/comment-page-1/#comment-2456 You Look Like A Nail Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:54:07 +0000 http://www.ryanjallen.net/blog/?p=1689#comment-2456 There are technical differences between a mac and a PC which make one superior to the other by specific metrics. They are meaningfully different. Organic foods are not guaranteed to be any better than regular foods. They are more expensive, have different marketing and offer reinforcement to specific types of self-image (self-delusion?) but the variation between an organic product and a regular product is not predictably different than the variation between two regular products. Choosing an organic food over a regular food can only be done for reasons above and beyond the content of the food, as that is not the domain in which they are differentiated. Choosing a mac over a PC, while having an element of marketing and signaling of self-image, also has a technical grounding. To sum up, screw the smelly hippies. There are technical differences between a mac and a PC which make one superior to the other by specific metrics. They are meaningfully different.

Organic foods are not guaranteed to be any better than regular foods. They are more expensive, have different marketing and offer reinforcement to specific types of self-image (self-delusion?) but the variation between an organic product and a regular product is not predictably different than the variation between two regular products.

Choosing an organic food over a regular food can only be done for reasons above and beyond the content of the food, as that is not the domain in which they are differentiated. Choosing a mac over a PC, while having an element of marketing and signaling of self-image, also has a technical grounding.

To sum up, screw the smelly hippies.

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