tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post1690663018263180995..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: Unnatural Food (guest post)Jean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-83354802915681840852010-06-11T11:24:10.304-05:002010-06-11T11:24:10.304-05:00I think the comments above point in the right dire...I think the comments above point in the right direction, i.e. that "natural" is celebrated because of a mistrust in human manipulation of the world. The-world-without-humans has a balance that has emerged over time that has produced a great deal of stability. It is easy to overlook the fact that this stability is based on intense competition between various forms of life that are tryingFaustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-75978062279410603712010-06-11T10:01:02.066-05:002010-06-11T10:01:02.066-05:00Amos is right about the test of time. We have cen...Amos is right about the test of time. We have centuries of experience of eating plants and animals and the traditional products made from them. It's true we have selectively bred these organisms to be different from their wild ancestors: bigger, easier to handle etc. But the traditional foods obtained from them are still functionally the same kind of product we have been eating for Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06399341362068645241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-53783511075300148052010-06-10T17:30:39.223-05:002010-06-10T17:30:39.223-05:00Granted that the tomatoes which I eat aren't p...Granted that the tomatoes which I eat aren't particularly natural, in the sense that the variety of tomatoes sold in my vegetable store don't grow spontaneously in nature. However, what scares off some people about new non-natural products is that they have not stood the test of time regarding their effects on health. One reads the label of some new miracle food in a supermarket (ifs. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com