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   XPost: alt.global-warming   
   From: Z@erkonx.net   
      
   On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:56:28 -0700, Immortalist wrote:   
      
   > Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for   
   > years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be   
   > addictive.   
      
   I suspect this is not exactly correct. There is bacon and there is an   
   item sold in stores and fast food joints called bacon. Once any additive,   
   let say any form of refined sugar,  is introduced for whatever reason it   
   is no longer 'just bacon'. Also how animals are fed is part of of this.   
   This might account for the rat behavior. If these rats had been feed meat   
   organically raised, fed on organic feeds I would wager a difference in   
   behavior, in rats and humans, would become apparent.   
      
   Also, and this is as real as the object called "bacon" and pertains to   
   humans alone, how bacon is represented should be considered a product   
   additive. Close ups of gleaming grease dripping from well lite rotating   
   bacon burgers with vivid green and red therefore healthy lettuce and   
   tomato suggesting healthy bacon burgers all underscored with hoppy music   
   is a physical ingredient and a physical additive.   
      
   101 in all culinary arts from ancient times to now is the deep importance   
   of presentation. This is not a trivial matter or some fluff idea. A brain   
   scientist can easily account for physical triggers set off via sensory   
   stimulation enabled by mass media. Some of these guys even work or   
   consult for Ad agencies and PR firms who have The Greasy Corporate   
   Internationals as clients. Their goal - by-pass reason.   
      
   Instead what we have here is again targeting what are essentially the   
   victims, the end users as if they (really more like 'we') should know   
   better. Well we do, otherwise there would be no need for physically   
   addictive sugar type additives or PR firms.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)