Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:23:32 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, "Salvo Bartolotta" <bartequi@neomedia.it>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <00cc01c1523e$c6fb6a20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011011112846.A17422@lpt.ens.fr>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Rahul Siddharthan [mailto:rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in] >Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 2:29 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu; Salvo Bartolotta; P. U. (Uli) Kruppa; >freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark > > >Ted Mittelstaedt said on Oct 11, 2001 at 01:58:37: >[snipped] > >The thrust of your mail is that many diseases are due to modern >lifestyles. I agree there. No argument. But it's not easy to >address that symptom. It's not just polluted air which causes cancer; >it's additives in food, pesticides, junk food, synthetic drinks, etc. >I was astounded to see the size of the "Nutrition Facts" label on >American cans of Coke, or packets of potato chips, for instance. You have to understand American politics to know why those are there. Obviously there's no nutrition in a can of Coke. But the problem is that a few years back it was a fad to get "Natural" everything. During this time a number of natural food companies cme out with soda pop that was based on juice. Of course, their cans of soft drink were 4 times more expensive (on the account of actually having something IN them rather than sugarwater) so the only way they could sell them is to make the argument that their soda was "Healthy" and the Coke and Pepsi's soda was empty calories. So they got together and lobbied the FDA to mandate the nutrition facts label to apply to sodapop as well as other foods. This of course casts the sugarwater vendors in a worse light than the natural soda vendors. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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