|
|
Author |
|
Message | |
|
tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45676 Location: Essex
|
|
|
|
|
jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28238 Location: escaped from Swindon
|
|
|
|
|
alison Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 12918 Location: North Devon
|
|
|
|
|
wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
|
|
|
|
|
cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
|
|
|
|
|
jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28238 Location: escaped from Swindon
|
|
|
|
|
Sarah D
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 2584
|
|
|
|
|
cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
|
Posted: Tue Nov 23, 04 9:04 am Post subject: |
|
jema wrote: |
Argh,
Won't be buying from them then
This represents by deepest fear about this site. I want this site to recommend ethical stuff and businesses. But I have some pretty strong views on just waht is ethical. It may be notable from some of the early selection of admins on the site, that I also wanted people with some fundermentally different opinions to create balance. But just how much "balance" can you have without ceasing to have a core ethos at all?
jema |
I'm fairly sure that all of us here share a fairly similar ethical code, it's just that we don't share a view as to how we can best live to that code.
These guys selling bags, oddly packaged health foods and chitosan pills (processed and chemically treated crustacean shell that chelates fats that you eat, giving you oily stools but causing you to absorb less fat) probably share the same ethos as us. They are doing what they think is the right thing, but for them (as for so many) the 'health food' factor is synonymous with the 'environmental' factor. I'm firmly of the opinion that they're wrong, but their heart is probably in the right place.
Incidentally, when tucking into a Mars bad a couple of years ago a thought struck me; we need something that gives all the sensualsatisfaction of a sweet, sticky chocolate bar with none of the fat. But the fat is integral to the product, that's why it's good. So we need a product that's just the same but with fat that doesn't count. Obviously that can be achieved with biscuits (everyone knows that the broken ones don't count), but then it struck me that it's easy to produce a chitosan colloid that would be flavourless and integrate it in the chocolate bar; the result being a bar of chocolate that would cause you to secrete more (or as much) fat than you get in the bar of chocolate.
Rushing back into the lab, I fired off a few patent searches, to discover that some Japanese guys had beaten me to it.
Bang goes anotherfortune |
|
|
|
|
jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28238 Location: escaped from Swindon
|
|
|
|
|
Gervase
Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 8655
|
|
|
|
|
wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
|
|
|
|
|
Bugs
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10744
|
|
|
|
|
|