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Nieft / Secola <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:39:06 -1000
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jean-claude:
>i don't have the need and i can't change anybody else decisions.

I was responding to what you wrote a couple days ago:

>If i could influence peoples to take
>charge of their own well being before they collapse i will feel usefull.

This sounds opposite of what you claim today.

>I just have a sens that you judge yourself harshly for having been yourself
>the person that you think i am.

Oh, now I understand. You think I am jealous of you! Worry not. But I am
still confused--am I judging myself or you?

>>Only a very minor percent of the world population cares though.
>
>there was only a bunch of peoples questionning the chemical agriculture
>years ago , now organic foods are in supermarket. very few persons
>breastfeeding when the formulas came on the market, now it is more common.

And you feel that a majority of people will adopt your instincto purism
because there are organic foods in rich countries' grocery stores?

>And you
>>don't have a corner on how the rest of the population should be fed.
>
>But the agrobusiness have an opinion about that. and use the power it have
>been given to it to decide how people should be fed.

People can eat pretty much what they choose, if they are rich enough. ;)
Agrobusiness is likely motivated by similar impulses to yours, namely
profit--except that wealth to them is simply money, whereas wealth to you
is the ability to satisfy your desire for "pure" foods.

>i am just  distributing informations that MIGHT incitate  peoples to get
>that power back and choose differently for THEMSELVES.

Best of luck to you in that endeaver. Whatever your deep motives may be.

>you just can't let go of the idea that i need others to eat a certain way
>for me to feel good about it. ?

I guess I can't. Especially when you always come around to bringing the
subject up--if you notice that's when I question you. Then you get
defensive and do a 180 degree turn.

>Yes i will appreciate to spend less time trying to find or produce the last
>remnant of good foods at the same time that i enjoy it a lot.

Confusing. You want to spend less time chasing your pure foods, or you
enjoy it? I have some tips for you if you want to spend less time chasing
foods:

1] Simply forget about things like pistachio nuts, olives, etc.--you can
live a fulfilling life without them.

2] Raise your own animals instead of getting in the local farmer's faces
about how they do it.

3] Mostly, just lighten up about the quality of your foodstuffs.

This would free you up from your occupation as a food chaser, but, alas,
there might be a void left that would feel uncomfortable.

>I am
>appreciating a lot when my quest is shared by others.

I understand that, but why should _they_? For instance, I like jazz and
love to talk story with other jazz lovers, but I don't want to bring down
the pop music industry (partly because I enjoy some of it), or have a
revolution where everyone likes the same music I do, or try to convince a
pop musician to become a jazz musician, etc. etc.

>i want that badly and i have no need to make wrong others who have
>differents concerns.

You imply that others are wrong all the time in your posts--from the evil
multinationals to anyone who cooks their paleofood or eats commercial meats
or in some way doesn't live up to your standards about what is "right". You
make it clear that "un-natural" is bad and that you are "natural". Perhaps
it is hard for you to see how that comes off much of the time...

>Thanks for accepting who i am.

No problem. ;)

Cheers,
Kirt

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