[lit-ideas] Fw: Re: "Natural [Organic] Food" (vs. "Unnatural [Junk] Food")
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:28:05 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
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Subject: [lit-ideas] "Natural [Organic] Food" (vs. "Unnatural [Junk] Food")
A.A. I wonder what would constitute unnatural food in pre-19th century eras=
? Uncooked maybe? Somehow unnatural food and the year 1600 don't mix in m=
y mind. I think refining came in toward the end of the 19th century, at th=
e same time that wide-scale deficiency diseases emerged.
Andy Amago
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We are discussing the natural/non-natural distinction as it applies to _la =
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cuisine_.
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n a message dated 8/30/2004 9:28:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, =20
John McCreery writes:
For an alternative view, I recall one of the characters in Bruce=20
Sterling's science fiction novel _Islands in the Net_, who refuses to=20
eat anything but chemically reconstituted petroleum. He argues that all=20
natural foods have evolved over millions of years to be poisonous to=20
predators--how could you possibly take the risk of eating that stuff.
Interestingly, chemically reconstituted petroleum is not in the OED list of=
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'natural food' -- some quotes 1671 onwards on this interesting phrase =20
collocation.
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Cheers,
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JL
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Cites for 'natural food' in the OED
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1671 J SHARP Midwives Bk. IV. viii. 224=20
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There is nothing better after conception, to prevent abortment than good=
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*natural food moderately taken.=20
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1683 T TRYON Way to Health 489=20
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Nor [is it] lawful for any of us to eat Sweet-Meats or delicious Tarts,=20
after we have eaten sufficiently of other simple & natural Food.=20
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1841 F. MYERS Catholic Thoughts III. =A714. 52=20
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There is a considerable portion of all natural food..serving rather for t=
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vehicle than for the substance of our support.=20
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1934 H. C. SHERMAN Food & Health xvii. 160=20
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Natural foods,..nature's wholes of the kinds to which our own bodies have=
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been adjusting themselves throughout our evolutionary history.=20
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1999 Healing Arts Festival 1999 Programme 14/2 (advt.)=20
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We are a one-stop organic and natural food supermarket in London.
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