With $101,220,000 reported lobbying, Altria is the corporation with the biggest investment in influencing lawmakers in Washington.[4]
Altria contributes to the furthering of opinions critical of the impact of global warming and climate change, through the funding of astroturf organizations such as The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition.
i asked my mom to get some turkey at the store for sandwhiches, and she got those prepackeged krafty packs of sliced turkey. the quality is decent but there's a pretty good butcher at our grocery place. Why not get some freshly sliced turkey, eh?
does philip morris do something outside of sell tobacco that you are against? im asking seriously as i havent done any research on the company.
im not sure i understand why you boycott their junk food.
You have to keep in mind that tobacco kind of pisses me off.
It tends to kill people in my family and is busily lowering the life expectancy of my best friend.
my mom was until recently an oncologist nurse
and one night she came home and broke down into tears and said "I just wish we could do something. so many of these people come in and we can't help them."
i asked my mom to get some turkey at the store for sandwhiches, and she got those prepackeged krafty packs of sliced turkey. the quality is decent but there's a pretty good butcher at our grocery place. Why not get some freshly sliced turkey, eh?
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she doesn't love you.
i'm the only one in my family that hasn't directly caused my mom severe emotional trauma. both my brothers and my dad have.
i'm pretty sure she loves me, although her taste in sliced meat may be suspect.
and one night she came home and broke down into tears and said "I just wish we could do something. so many of these people come in and we can't help them."
it was one of those moments for sure.
Between booze, tobacco, and a shitty diet, I got to watch my mom's father die slowly over a period of decades.
He lost half a leg, his spine got all full of spurs, he had a -quadruple bypass- at one point, diabetes like mad... and -I- was the one who found out that he was still smoking after -years- of pretending to have quit.
After watching my mother and other family members cry every time he was near death, when he finally died, I couldn't draw a single tear.
on the a brighter note, I'm rereading His Dark Materials. I was afraid I would encounter the whole "This was so good when I was little but now I only taste the bitter rank of suckiness" thing, but damn
i asked my mom to get some turkey at the store for sandwhiches, and she got those prepackeged krafty packs of sliced turkey. the quality is decent but there's a pretty good butcher at our grocery place. Why not get some freshly sliced turkey, eh?
cheaper
faster
she doesn't love you.
i'm the only one in my family that hasn't directly caused my mom severe emotional trauma. both my brothers and my dad have.
i'm pretty sure she loves me, although her taste in sliced meat may be suspect.
well now that you got all serious on me I'll make a point to say I didn't actually mean what I said...
And I went and passed up pudding at the market today.
I more just think it's a bad idea to buy pseudofood. I think you should get a bit of ice cream, and a bowl so you can eat less than all of it at once, and it's not like it's any worse for you, but at least it's real food. If you pick the right brands, you can look at the side and see that the list of ingredients consists either exclusively or almost exclusively of just foods, not a list of chemicals, and eat that instead. I mean I don't even generally smoke cigarettes that have additives. That's basically all I've done to lose weight, too, is just only eat real food, I don't fucking care who makes it and packages it as long as the ingredients list doesn't require me to pull out my organic-chem textbook. I don't generally carry it with me to the grocery store. Or anywhere. I mean fuck, who does that? And it's apparently working, at least as far as everyone else is concerned. They're clearly absurd, though. I do actually feel better, though. And have more energy and shit.
i asked my mom to get some turkey at the store for sandwhiches, and she got those prepackeged krafty packs of sliced turkey. the quality is decent but there's a pretty good butcher at our grocery place. Why not get some freshly sliced turkey, eh?
cheaper
faster
she doesn't love you.
i'm the only one in my family that hasn't directly caused my mom severe emotional trauma. both my brothers and my dad have.
i'm pretty sure she loves me, although her taste in sliced meat may be suspect.
well now that you got all serious on me I'll make a point to say I didn't actually mean what I said...
I more just think it's a bad idea to buy pseudofood. I think you should get a bit of ice cream, and a bowl so you can eat less than all of it at once, and it's not like it's any worse for you, but at least it's real food. If you pick the right brands, you can look at the side and see that the list of ingredients consists either exclusively or almost exclusively of just foods, not a list of chemicals, and eat that instead. I mean I don't even generally smoke cigarettes that have additives. That's basically all I've done to lose weight, too, is just only eat real food, I don't fucking care who makes it and packages it as long as the ingredients list doesn't require me to pull out my organic-chem textbook. I don't generally carry it with me to the grocery store. Or anywhere. I mean fuck, who does that? And it's apparently working, at least as far as everyone else is concerned. They're clearly absurd, though. I do actually feel better, though. And have more energy and shit.
I do tend to get mostly actual food. Organic when I can afford it.
I have a few low-calorie and frozen foods that I'm sure have lots of weird junk in them, but that's a temporary thing while I finish up this diet.
Mostly I have stuff like apple sauce, tuna, various canned beans, whole wheat pastas and breads, oat meal/bran, bananas, creamy swiss cheese (so good), shelled walnuts, etc.
I plan to hit Seattle about five times as healthy as I've ever been before in my life.
I need to read those before the movies come out. Kid's fantasy with overt Gnostic and Luciferian themes? Yes please.
I just got to the part where it is revealed
one of the characters is not trying to make war on the church, because the church is weak and corrupt to begin with. it's not worth making war on.
rather, he wants to make war on Heaven itself and challenge the all powerful Authority.
and I was like, yeah!
My SO told me about that. I got her the books for Christmas and she lost the second one in the series before finishing it, though. I should replace it for my own benefit.
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
isn't 'all natural' a meaningless statement since it isn't regulated by any standards, unlike 'organic,' which is?
yes
also "strawberry bits" is the patented name for a reddish chemical concoction designed to taste like strawberries. That way they can list it on the ingredients as something that sounds like real food.
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Yes,... yes, I agree. It's totally unfair that sober you gets into trouble for things that drunk you did.
the ice cream place i work for is genuinely natural. they make the ice cream in the back of the store from milk across the street, so there's no that much room for artificial stuff.
I have come to the conclusion that the principal difference between a Japanese fishmarket and a Japanese aquarium is that the animals in the fishmarket appear to be in better health.
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Yes,... yes, I agree. It's totally unfair that sober you gets into trouble for things that drunk you did.
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Also, Altria doesn't own Kraft Foods anymore.
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she doesn't love you.
my mom was until recently an oncologist nurse
and one night she came home and broke down into tears and said "I just wish we could do something. so many of these people come in and we can't help them."
it was one of those moments for sure.
Shit.
And I went and passed up pudding at the market today.
i'm the only one in my family that hasn't directly caused my mom severe emotional trauma. both my brothers and my dad have.
i'm pretty sure she loves me, although her taste in sliced meat may be suspect.
Even American Spirits? Those are my favorites, I just can't get them as easily around here as I could in the C-bus.
Between booze, tobacco, and a shitty diet, I got to watch my mom's father die slowly over a period of decades.
He lost half a leg, his spine got all full of spurs, he had a -quadruple bypass- at one point, diabetes like mad... and -I- was the one who found out that he was still smoking after -years- of pretending to have quit.
After watching my mother and other family members cry every time he was near death, when he finally died, I couldn't draw a single tear.
Still can't.
Seriously, fuck that shit.
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I don't know what American Spirits is.
Me, I'm all about gourmet toothpicks.
they're still pretty darn good.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
well now that you got all serious on me I'll make a point to say I didn't actually mean what I said...
I more just think it's a bad idea to buy pseudofood. I think you should get a bit of ice cream, and a bowl so you can eat less than all of it at once, and it's not like it's any worse for you, but at least it's real food. If you pick the right brands, you can look at the side and see that the list of ingredients consists either exclusively or almost exclusively of just foods, not a list of chemicals, and eat that instead. I mean I don't even generally smoke cigarettes that have additives. That's basically all I've done to lose weight, too, is just only eat real food, I don't fucking care who makes it and packages it as long as the ingredients list doesn't require me to pull out my organic-chem textbook. I don't generally carry it with me to the grocery store. Or anywhere. I mean fuck, who does that? And it's apparently working, at least as far as everyone else is concerned. They're clearly absurd, though. I do actually feel better, though. And have more energy and shit.
edit: apparently in March.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I'm pretty sure you'll have something to say about them, at the very least.
But who cares? Kraft is crap! Weren't you paying attention! There will be a quiz. To the death.
I just got to the part where it is revealed
one of the characters is not trying to make war on the church, because the church is weak and corrupt to begin with. it's not worth making war on.
rather, he wants to make war on Heaven itself and challenge the all powerful Authority.
and I was like, yeah!
Yes, but Kraft owns Nabisco, which isn't crap.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Damn sellouts.
Noom might have words with you.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I know, i know.
just thinking out loud.
But there are others.
But the bakery is better!
I do tend to get mostly actual food. Organic when I can afford it.
I have a few low-calorie and frozen foods that I'm sure have lots of weird junk in them, but that's a temporary thing while I finish up this diet.
Mostly I have stuff like apple sauce, tuna, various canned beans, whole wheat pastas and breads, oat meal/bran, bananas, creamy swiss cheese (so good), shelled walnuts, etc.
I plan to hit Seattle about five times as healthy as I've ever been before in my life.
you need a biscuit ;-)
My SO told me about that. I got her the books for Christmas and she lost the second one in the series before finishing it, though. I should replace it for my own benefit.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
yes
also "strawberry bits" is the patented name for a reddish chemical concoction designed to taste like strawberries. That way they can list it on the ingredients as something that sounds like real food.
Native Americans: You ruined our health with smallpox, we ass-raped your health with our produce.
Well sure, if you want to enslave a bunch of Amish people and have them make ice cream in the basement.
Which I'm down for.
Well, organic is also kinda dodgy. Its meaning has become devalued over the years.
For two weddings I disregarded the registry and got them electric ice cream makers. I know they'll thank me someday.
if my true friends get me a breadmaker and not a samurai sword then they are not my true friends.