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Comment Re:Stop blaming processing...it's the ingredients! (Score 1) 83

Although the definitions are hazy, the ingredients in question are those that would NOT be found in home cooking or restaurant cooking of freshly prepared foods. Mostly ingredients added to enhance taste and/or increase shelf stability of stored foods.

That said: One solution to the shelf life of food is ... (get ready for left wing screeching) ... irradiation. Use that and you can greatly diminish or even eliminate the addition of preservatives.

And for those of you who pooh-pooh preservation in favor of "organic" food, untreated organic food can sicken or kill you if stuff starts to grow in it before you cook it. Bacteria loves organic food just as much as you do.

Comment Send them to ... (Score 1) 249

... a parochial school.

Kid in my neighborhood was failing pretty miserably, particularly in math. So his parents sent him to the local Christian school. That year, his grades improved markedly.

When his parents asked him what it was about the school that helped the most, he said, "When I walked into the classroom and I saw that guy nailed to the plus-sign, I knew they took their math seriously."

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