Buying food doesn't count
You need it to live, and there isn't enough land in the world to have us all being self sufficient and growing our own.

And alcohol just keeps the voices at bay :P
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 12:01, 2 replies)

Buying food absolutely counts if you're going to sneer at people using the justification of "doing what Big Business tells them to do"

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 12:17, closed)

Unless...
You only buy your food from some tiny peasant organic farmer/allotment holder.

Big business doesn't tell you to eat, it tells you what to eat. By snacking on beetroot and brussels sprouts, I am sticking two fingers up to the man.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 13 Jul 2010, 14:39, closed)

Hah
If organic food isn't 'doing what you're told', I don't know what is.

I'm sure there are some very honest and well intentioned organic producers around, but having some experience, I can tell you a lot of it is a total racket.

fact: Difference between organic sugar and non organic sugar in some (nameless) countries = Packet is printed different, and price is just about double. Same stuff in the packet.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 16:01, closed)

Missing my point...
It was about small local farmers, who produce goods, not huge factory farms, which produce large quantities of homogenous food that we are told to eat because it looks crunchy, or shiny, or tasty.

The organic bit was reference to the fact that you are avoiding the likes of Monsanto, and pesticide people, who tell you what type of food to eat, and grow.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Tue 13 Jul 2010, 16:44, closed)

... and instead playing into the hands of Holland and Barratt ...
who tell you what type of food to eat, and grow.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 10:10, closed)

There is enough land
to have everyone in the world fed to their current level. It's just that not everyone actually does it themselves.

But the planet is already so overpopulated that we now have too many people to feed them all to Western standards (arguably grossly excessive in many cases, but still). And it's only going to get worse as more people are born, and require more land to live on, thus reducing the land area available for growing food.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 13 Jul 2010, 14:45, closed)