From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 19:26:48 MDT
Adrian Tymes wrote:
> --- gts <gts_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The dairy farmers are incapable of rising to the
>> challenge. Instead they plaster billboards and magazines
>> with photographs of famous people sporting milk mustaches.
>
> To be fair (to the Luddites? Yeah, well, justice
> doesn't always work in any one person's favor): it's
> not worth their time to try. Perhaps they are aware
> of overwhelming evidence supporting their position.
> The extra profit margin they would get by publicizing
> this evidence is, in their view, on par with or
> substantially less than the labor costs of dressing it
> up into a coherent argument and advertising.
True, perhaps, but my point was not that the dairy industry does not
advertise any legitimate health benefits of dairy products. It was rather
that the dairy industry is actually incapable of doing so. Like agricultural
products, the primarily utility of dairy products is the prevention of
famine. Famine is hardly a concern for people in developed countries, most
of whom are faced with the opposite problem.
-gts
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