Joe Hillshoist wrote:Who knows, it definitely tastes better tho.
I work with small family fruit growers, and personally taste test several hundred varieties of apples - most modern people can't name more than ten - for example, every year and also run blind taste testing parties. There is no simplistic standard answer on this - far, far from it.
Some general guidlines -
Fruit grown further north, with longer photo periods and wider 24 hour temperature swings, tastes better. Fruit allowed to ripen tastes better. Varieties grown in the appropriate soil and location taste better. Some fruit tastes better immediately after picking, some varieties improve in storage. Varieties selected for color and shape and skin texture - uniformly red, symmetrical in shape, with shiny smooth skin - often is lacking in ither areas - flavor and nutrition especially.
Then we have the variables of location, the skill of the grower, and the same variety from the same tree can vary in flavor woldly fropm year to year.
But I wouldn't blame the spirituality itself. Its the lazy application of the spirituality as an excuse for inaction rather than anything in and of itself. Those sorts of spirituality are supposed to teach rejection of desire, not action. They are supposed to teach action without lust of result for the purpose of generating more effective action. Not sitting on your arse gazing at your navel.
Of course. Agreed. Key point there -
action. Religions arise with the intention of changing people's
behavior, not their beliefs.
me - "The only way to change the world is to change yourself" we are told.
you - Perhaps that should actually be something those people take to heart. Change themselves and they might get something done.
Good point. Something of a paradox there. Perhaps we can make this distinction - is the self-improvement for the ultimate purpose of contributing to and living in a cooperative community for the benefit of many, or merely to enhance an atomized and isolated individual at the expense of others who then become "losers?"
Enlightenment is available to everyone and ultimately means sweet FA anyway. Only unenlightened people hold it up as something special.
Yes. Another paradox of sorts.
If something was on the line for those people then what you say is absent wouldn't be.
Excellent insight. .
How so? Every organic farmer I know is not ruling class, but something about the fact that they have lower overheads, less money spent on ferts and pesticides, contributes to them making money. What happens after they sell their produce doesn't take away from the fact that they spend less in monetary terms than "traditional" (as in traditional oil age) farmers, and as a result get more cash back. (Mind you they also work harder, well not actually harder, but use smaller plots and are more labour intensive on them. Every farmer I know works bloody hard.)
EVERYTHING in the US becomes corrupted and commercialized and bastardized and eventually serves the ruling class agenda.
Corporate agri business sucks, and destroys lives. No question at all. Agri business run by people (organic or not) are nowhere near as bad.
Yes.
