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How do groceries get so much perfect food?

 
Eggifer  (OP)

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So where are the 68% of all Americans who have died in last few centuries buried? I presume the number of Americans who must have died in last hundred years alone must be over 200 million. Even if their bodies were stacked one upon another, would it be possible to bury them all?
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I have heard about some cemeteries that do stack bodies, but that is an illegal practice. So, I'd say it's in the minority. I am surprised at your statistics that cremation is around 1/3 of deaths. Even with that many being cremated, there still should be boneyards all over the place.

Of course, sometimes developers just build on top of cemeteries and that causes a lot of angry ghosts! lol
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So where are the 68% of all Americans who have died in last few centuries buried? I presume the number of Americans who must have died in last hundred years alone must be over 200 million. Even if their bodies were stacked one upon another, would it be possible to bury them all?
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I have heard about some cemeteries that do stack bodies, but that is an illegal practice. So, I'd say it's in the minority. I am surprised at your statistics that cremation is around 1/3 of deaths. Even with that many being cremated, there still should be boneyards all over the place.

Of course, sometimes developers just build on top of cemeteries and that causes a lot of angry ghosts! lol
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In a matrix, bodies would simply be deleted when they become inactive programs. Much like cleaning out a hardrive of old files. Or they would be "renamed" or saved as a new file. Not reincarnation, more like recycling.

The body count/burial thing does not compute. The more I think of it... it is a very strange thing to ponder.

Most people are no more than A.I. constructs. Not with there own free will and free thinking...but are "slaves" to the system. Think about that. That sounds like a designed program with a set of functions to perform.

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OK, here is a possible solution to the cemetery issue: I am only aware of the graves of my own loved ones, and also remember other graves that are nearby to theirs. Other people are only aware of the graves of their loved ones, and remember other graves they have seen nearby. Something to think about! lol
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QUOTE:

>>> "666. We should start a MATRIX, TRUMAN SHOW Gathering place post. and post more breaks in the matrix we observe, =) Im not going to back down, I did chicken out a bit from pressure, but its too obvious.

Others can stay in the hamster cage working their little hamster wheel. Im not !


The powers of this world are dying and struggling to explain reality and maintain control as many are begining to wake up and question what is going on.

When you SEE the truth in the sky.... there is NO going back. The stars are a big key to a shocking truth.
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Maybe that is why our holographic skies are sprayed non-stop for the last decade to hide and cover the stars?
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OK, here is a possible solution to the cemetery issue: I am only aware of the graves of my own loved ones, and also remember other graves that are nearby to theirs. Other people are only aware of the graves of their loved ones, and remember other graves they have seen nearby. Something to think about! lol
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I just remembered the oft-repeated claim that entire world population could fit into the state of Texas with about 1000 sq feet per person. (this is actually true - 7,487,608,550,400 sq feet divided by 7 billion = 1069 sq feet)

So perhaps we are overestimating the amount of space required to bury all the dead.

How much space does it require to bury one person? less than 20-30 sq feet, I guess. So it should be possible to easily bury as many as 50-100 people in 1000 sq feet space which means that it is possible to bury 50-100 times the world population (300-700 billion) in the state of Texas alone..

Now if someone can calculate the total area occupied by cemeteries in any densely populated area and check its ratio to the total area, we can calculate how easy or difficult it is to bury all the dead..
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Six Six Six:

so do you think some of this food is being manufactured with technology like that 3-D printer that created a "human kidney"?

If so, that would explain why no food tastes right to me anymore.
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Heheh..

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drive around people there is ALOT of farmland out there. alot.
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OK, here is a possible solution to the cemetery issue: I am only aware of the graves of my own loved ones, and also remember other graves that are nearby to theirs. Other people are only aware of the graves of their loved ones, and remember other graves they have seen nearby. Something to think about! lol
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I just remembered the oft-repeated claim that entire world population could fit into the state of Texas with about 1000 sq feet per person. (this is actually true - 7,487,608,550,400 sq feet divided by 7 billion = 1069 sq feet)

So perhaps we are overestimating the amount of space required to bury all the dead.

How much space does it require to bury one person? less than 20-30 sq feet, I guess. So it should be possible to easily bury as many as 50-100 people in 1000 sq feet space which means that it is possible to bury 50-100 times the world population (300-700 billion) in the state of Texas alone..

Now if someone can calculate the total area occupied by cemeteries in any densely populated area and check its ratio to the total area, we can calculate how easy or difficult it is to bury all the dead..
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But then we would be burying them standing up instead of laying down?
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We had preservatives back in the 70's as well, and I remember having cans of spaghetti sauce grow mold in a short time. Nowadays it stays perfect forever, no mold.

Lots of food is GMO but even the so-called organic food is too pretty to be real. And there can't possibly be enough of it being grown to keep replenishing it constantly! We'd need a zillion trucks to deliver it if it in fact did exist.
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OP, maybe we have high tech aliens ruling over earth. I have seen a space portal open up in the sky and a military caravan escorting a ship thru the portal and it closed up. I will swear to this in a lie detector test

so maybe all the food is replicated somehow, like in Star trek

Ive noticed one stores traffic during an hour I shopped there and theres no way they sell enough to make a profit, I would guess maybe 5 percent of perishable food is sold. So how do you justify throwing away most everything? They cant be making a profit, Something is up
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Man, what have you been smokin' ?!!

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OK, here is a possible solution to the cemetery issue: I am only aware of the graves of my own loved ones, and also remember other graves that are nearby to theirs. Other people are only aware of the graves of their loved ones, and remember other graves they have seen nearby. Something to think about! lol
crazyjak
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There have been many cases of cemetery tampering here in So Cal. Relocation all the time after time by keepers after no more visitors . The government pays some money to cremate body's at a bulk rate they even make work detail out of it for probation . This guy told me he worked at one to work off probation hours for a 502.
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Re: How do groceries get so much perfect food?
Ever been in an airplane and seen how many/how vast the farmlands are? There is your answer.
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i work at a mushroom farm, so i have some insider info

you're going to want to hold on to your hat for this one!!


we ship the ugly mushrooms off for cannery crazy
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Ok, seriously... so many things don't add up. Since we are on the topic of food...


I NEVER see any pigs. I've driven past many "farmland" and open rural areas, seen some horses and a few cows but NEVER any pigs.

The amount of consumption and sheer volume of pork sold in stores, would imply that there are ALOT of pigs and they are being slaughtered by the thousands daily.

Now I know, this thread sounds very sci-fi, but so many things in this reality do NOT add up.


The shipping and distribution of food makes little sense from a profit and storage and freshness stand point.


Having most supplies "fresh" on site or near it would be much more profitable. The food industry is about profit...right?

NO.

It's not. It's alot more sinister than that.

Their purpose is NOT about MAKIN MONEY when it comes to food.

This is actually somewhat clear when you think of the concepts behind the food shipping/packing/processing system.

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I used to work for a supermarket and would unload the trucks at night. Freaked me out how little food there was in the truck. Now I think, how is it feasible to stock so many grocery places in one city alone, not even considering all the other cities in the state, not even considering all the states in America. It doesn't seem possible with so few trucks.
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I used to work for a supermarket and would unload the trucks at night. Freaked me out how little food there was in the truck. Now I think, how is it feasible to stock so many grocery places in one city alone, not even considering all the other cities in the state, not even considering all the states in America. It doesn't seem possible with so few trucks.
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Exactly. It would be a huge amount of incoming stock just to keep a small town's restaurants and markets stocked for a few weeks. Especially here in America, where the consumption rate is very high. Now imagine that state wide and nation wide... it does NOT add up.
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This should be pinned
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OMG, please dont. Ill be destroyed, my reputation ruined ! lol. Seriously, Im being serious. It looks bad, but Im convinced we are in some kind of holodeck.
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Goofy Thum
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Heres another Matrix breaker theory to test out.

Cemetaries are not large enough to hold all the people that should be dying daily. Count your citys population, Count the cities obituaries, take off the percentage of cremations. Count the number of cemetaries in your city and take off those numbers who are shipped elsewhere to be buried somewhere else.

Go walk the tombstones and read the dates, it should be new ones daily. The number of new graves should be added everyday. I estimate a cemetaries size should be a much more larger specific size if you counted back to 1800s.

Its just a guess, Im not serious, but its a project to do for fun if anyone was up to it.

My cities two cemetaries are way too tiny, People are missing, something is up.
 Quoting: ABADDON - APOLLYON .


Cremation? I don't know many people who are buried anymore(I know I won't be). In fact, one friend was cremated and buried in her urn out at sea.
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Perfect food? Try buying large bags of oranges and then say that. Half of them are either dried out or rotting. The perfect food you see was probably grown hydroponically. As for the rest, how do we pick out what's not genetically modified? You won't see perfect food in this world again, thanks to Monsanto.
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It's called genetics and breeding certian plants and green houses. Do you know the basics of growing food?
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Do you know the basics of the fallen angels and where religion comes from???

The Angels were aliens, God was an alien

FACT

:elohim:
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Soooooooooo what's that have to do with perfect looking food? I am already aware that our physical creators were aliens, I have no care for this world anyway, they can have it. I'm going to the Light.
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You have to choose your food wisely. Go to the appropiate store symbol that will sell the replicated food that most closely is harmonious with your genetics. They send different food to different stores, Youll recognize each occult symbol.

Dang, loony bin truck and straight jacket on the way to me. but oh well. I know the truth !
 Quoting: ABADDON - APOLLYON .


Maybe this has already been answered, but could you tell us more about these symbols? We have Food Lions around here which I thought is a strange name for a store. Their symbol reminds me of royalty/family crest. Anyway, could you give us a heads up?
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Try this little experiment...buy a couple of tomatoes and bananas. Let them sit on your kitchen counter for a couple of weeks. You will notice something that should disturb you (at least it did me)...THEY DO NOT ROT! I have noticed the same with bread as well. It can sit there for weeks and not grow mold. But I will bake a homemade loaf and there is hair on it within days.

I think you are right, OP. Perfect food is TOO perfect. Not even the flies will land on them!
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Come on! LOL. I throw out fruits and vegetables at least once a week. Bananas last about a day and a half. Tomatoes a few days. Then it's rotten. I just came back from the supermarket and had to search for unblemished oranges. Forget about the grapes. Most were already rotten. I can understand it, as I went shopping late at night, so a lot of stuff wasn't fresh any longer. As far as bread, yes, it does get stale. I would like to know just where you live. Wherever it is, it doesn't sound like reality.
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Yeah, my food rots and goes bad as well.
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I dont care if others make fun of me.

I know the TRUTH !

I was visited in the field by a 25 foot craft, It spent time with me , just them and I after they followed my car down a dirt road. It let me get close to it cause I had known they were watching me for a few weeks.

I also saw how they use Quantum portals in the sky, It zips open in golden light like a zipper and they then go anywhere they want to. They showed me.

And there are other things I cant mention here.

At least I know the truth.
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YOu know what? I believe you.
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Yes, what he said wouldn't surprise me either.
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We had preservatives back in the 70's as well, and I remember having cans of spaghetti sauce grow mold in a short time. Nowadays it stays perfect forever, no mold.

Lots of food is GMO but even the so-called organic food is too pretty to be real. And there can't possibly be enough of it being grown to keep replenishing it constantly! We'd need a zillion trucks to deliver it if it in fact did exist.
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Precisely what happens. Food is brought in from all over the planet. You'll notice how produce prices fluctuate along with actual produce variety changing throughout the year. You've also heard about how if trucking went down, we'd have 3 days before the shelves were empty. Research "Just In Time Inventories" and how it works.

Edit: Produce companies have also come up with precise timelines and or storage practices that allow them to pick items before they are ripe and deliver them at the peak of freshness. Dole bananas has a special temp controlled room they hold bananas in until ready to ship.
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What he said.

Plus they grade the food in many cases so lower quality food goes to less profitable areas, canning, processed foods, animal feed, etc and the high quality product is sold to restaurants and groceries.
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I went to visit a manatee refuge and their caretaker said they can only eat restaurant grade romaine lettuce because the supermarket lettuce would kill them. Possibly because it is old or not enough nutrients.
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Years and years ago when you went to the store you had to sit and pick out the good fruits and veggies from the bin, because some were rotting, had blemishes, insect marks. BUT today they look like they came out of a magazine...Thats cause the Food is NOT REAL and it has no taste.
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...and it is depleted of nutrients.

...and it actually harms your body.

Invented for their shelf life, not your health life.
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This is true. I can see it with the tomatoes.
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OK, here is a possible solution to the cemetery issue: I am only aware of the graves of my own loved ones, and also remember other graves that are nearby to theirs. Other people are only aware of the graves of their loved ones, and remember other graves they have seen nearby. Something to think about! lol
crazyjak
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I just remembered the oft-repeated claim that entire world population could fit into the state of Texas with about 1000 sq feet per person. (this is actually true - 7,487,608,550,400 sq feet divided by 7 billion = 1069 sq feet)

So perhaps we are overestimating the amount of space required to bury all the dead.

How much space does it require to bury one person? less than 20-30 sq feet, I guess. So it should be possible to easily bury as many as 50-100 people in 1000 sq feet space which means that it is possible to bury 50-100 times the world population (300-700 billion) in the state of Texas alone..

Now if someone can calculate the total area occupied by cemeteries in any densely populated area and check its ratio to the total area, we can calculate how easy or difficult it is to bury all the dead..
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But then we would be burying them standing up instead of laying down?
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Not really..An average 6 feet tall dead body shouldn't need more than 10 x 3 = 30 sq feet space of graveyard even while lying down.
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OP your so fuckin stupid...

Matrix?? wtf ur stupid

Its laced with chemicals thats why there shiny and look new

eat organic
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See how you ignored the logic part of it?

Simply dismiss it as chemicals. And return to your sheeple ways.

My point is... there's no apples in America? That they need to go to Mexico or Asia to get pre sliced apples? it makes no sense.

Even things like pasta sauce. It's bottled many states away.
Manufactered far from local sources. Do you have any idea the trucking/shipping rate would be for so many places?

As others have stated... I'm out in the middle of night...and RARELY see delivery trucks. The delivery and manufacturing rate does not seem to meet the consumption and avalibilty rate. It make NO SENSE.

If it was about cost and fuel and timing... it makes even less sense if you think about it.

So my local walmart is getting deliveries from DOZENS if not HUNDREDS of different sources daily and weekly? And that's just for 1 store! Not to mention resteraunts and other supermarkets.


If every store did this, nationwide...Daily, Weekly... the roads would be cluttered with delivery trucks 24/7. You'd almost ALWAYS see one coming or going from somewhere.

Are you ALL BLIND to the fact that reality is NOT REAL?

I also like the cemetary example as well, btw.
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666. We should start a MATRIX, TRUMAN SHOW Gathering place post. and post more breaks in the matrix we observe, =) Im not going to back down, I did chicken out a bit from pressure, but its too obvious.

Others can stay in the hamster cage working their little hamster wheel. Im not !

Even Initiates in Tarot describe the world as a wheel that goes round and round and round till you step off of it.

Every Gnostic is taught the allegory of platos cave in which most people live in

Wonder why they want you entertained 24/7? Why you need movies and shows and video games on your IPAD, IPHONE and Smartphone? on top of your cable and television and magazines Its cause they want to keep you hypnotized so youre not more observant on your surroundings....
 Quoting: ABADDON - APOLLYON .


Bread and circuses kept the Roman population entertained as well.
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OP your so fuckin stupid...

Matrix?? wtf ur stupid

Its laced with chemicals thats why there shiny and look new

eat organic
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See how you ignored the logic part of it?

Simply dismiss it as chemicals. And return to your sheeple ways.

My point is... there's no apples in America? That they need to go to Mexico or Asia to get pre sliced apples? it makes no sense.

Even things like pasta sauce. It's bottled many states away.
Manufactered far from local sources. Do you have any idea the trucking/shipping rate would be for so many places?

As others have stated... I'm out in the middle of night...and RARELY see delivery trucks. The delivery and manufacturing rate does not seem to meet the consumption and avalibilty rate. It make NO SENSE.

If it was about cost and fuel and timing... it makes even less sense if you think about it.

So my local walmart is getting deliveries from DOZENS if not HUNDREDS of different sources daily and weekly? And that's just for 1 store! Not to mention resteraunts and other supermarkets.


If every store did this, nationwide...Daily, Weekly... the roads would be cluttered with delivery trucks 24/7. You'd almost ALWAYS see one coming or going from somewhere.

Are you ALL BLIND to the fact that reality is NOT REAL?

I also like the cemetary example as well, btw.
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666. We should start a MATRIX, TRUMAN SHOW Gathering place post. and post more breaks in the matrix we observe, =) Im not going to back down, I did chicken out a bit from pressure, but its too obvious.

Others can stay in the hamster cage working their little hamster wheel. Im not !

Even Initiates in Tarot describe the world as a wheel that goes round and round and round till you step off of it.

Every Gnostic is taught the allegory of platos cave in which most people live in

Wonder why they want you entertained 24/7? Why you need movies and shows and video games on your IPAD, IPHONE and Smartphone? on top of your cable and television and magazines Its cause they want to keep you hypnotized so youre not more observant on your surroundings....
 Quoting: ABADDON - APOLLYON .


Bread and circuses kept the Roman population entertained as well.
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oh, and unaware.
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It's not fake. It's still food but now it's 'engineered' food. Did you read that article where they say Apples in average grocery stores are about a year old on average? That's why if you insist on local, chances are you will get 'slightly' fresher food. This trend of every produce being available throughout the year is what's driving it. What's wrong with enjoying fruits 1-2 months during the year when they are available fresh and use frozen version rest of the year? Do people really think apples and carrots grow everyday of the year?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1309183


Again, I'll repeat what I've posted several times in this thread...much to the denial of everyone...

Reality is NOT real.

The food example is a perfect example as many have stated above. It simply does not make sense.

My local Walmart sells pre packed apple slices... from Indonesia. So... you mean to tell me, that they grow, slice and package the apples from overseas... then drive it to an airport, and fly it to america, where it is driven to a warehouse source, before it is sent out to Walmart. To sell to me for $1.50.

Think about the ridiculousness of that concept. Just in theory alone. Not to mention other things like time, freshness, fuel and cost. It's not efficent. It's NOT Logical.

Why not just plant an apple tree in a small greenhouse in the massive space that walmart has? So many more logical and efficent ways to do things...but it is NEVER the case.

WHY?



Most people do NOT question what is going on and why. It's amazing.
 Quoting: Six Six Six


Since you asked, let's do the math

You can produce 4 lbs apples for a dollar in Indonesia (walmart does contract farming and so does every large grocer)..that's about 10 apples. so the cost of 1 apple is 10 cents. Shipping costs 40 cents for two pounds from Indonesia (approx.)so that's about 8 cents per apple. cutting and packaging are usually about 5 cents per apple. spraying chemicals and growth regulators will be about 15 cents per apple.
So now you have a bag that has a full apple, cut and packaged with all necessary chemicals to keep it 'alive' for 1.5 months of shipping time and 4 months of shelf life at the US port for about 40 cents. Distribution within US will vary due to distance from port but they average it out across the country to keep prices same everywhere. Add another 20 cents for that(and that's the high end of estimate)

So...for 60 cents you have a bag of apple in the store. Now add the Carrying cost usually 30% and opportunity cost (profit they would be losing by selling something else on that shelf) and you arrive at a dollar tops for the TOTAL cost..yes, they can sell that bag to you for 1.50 and will be very very happy to sell at that price. Packaged produce is the highest margin in grocery. fresh produce margins are between 20-30%

You don't think what you see is real? Pinch yourself real hard and you'll know.

I understand what you are saying but I see it a bit differently..I see the world as millions of parallel realities and we live in one. That's all. That doesn't make it the only reality but you know what? This IS our reality. we could do meditation, yoga, out-of-body experiments to travel to another reality but we HAVE to come back to this reality. Like I said, this IS our reality.
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Shipping and distribution is archaic and moot.

The Government was testing portals in the 1950s ! This is public record. They knew how quantum physics of wormholes worked, but didnt get the full control of it, This was in 1950s.

If that was 1950s, what do they have today?

Not to mention, Did God have need of a spaceship? None of you could grasp and explain how the Bible happened way back then. Science can. He used vibrational generators to part the red sea. What was the cloud that led the Israelites out of Egypt? It was a spaceship.

How were the Egyptian blocks lifted? They were levitated.

Every Initiate knows Atlantean tech, did it just disappear under the sea?

Do you even know whats really under the sea and what the ships would watch near the bermuda triangle?

Do you know the small gold artifact flying ship toy that divers excavated from the ocean floor? Do you know how far back it was dated? (google this)

Theres a underground tunnel entrances near Bermuda, and also in Peru.

Theres also one near the coast of Japan.
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You have got some interesting information. The Israelites shoes and clothes never wore out either while they were wandering the desert.
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But we don't bury everyone all in one spot (i.e., the state of Texas).

Every town has a few cemeteries. Most of them have been there since the town was founded. Some of them grow larger but eventually they run out of land to annex.

Where do all the dead bodies go? No new cemeteries are springing up in my town.

For example, in my hometown, the pop. is about 38,000. The town is about to celebrate is 200 year anniversary. There are two city-owned cemeteries: One boasts an estimate of 90 acres of burial ground, while the other has an estimate of 7 acres of burial ground. There are three others: one is a Catholic cemetery, and one is a National cemetery. In the "general" one, over a five day period, there were 10 burials. This cemetery has been in the town for 150 years. How can they keep squeeazing in more corpses?
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So where are the 68% of all Americans who have died in last few centuries buried? I presume the number of Americans who must have died in last hundred years alone must be over 200 million. Even if their bodies were stacked one upon another, would it be possible to bury them all?
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I have heard about some cemeteries that do stack bodies, but that is an illegal practice. So, I'd say it's in the minority. I am surprised at your statistics that cremation is around 1/3 of deaths. Even with that many being cremated, there still should be boneyards all over the place.

Of course, sometimes developers just build on top of cemeteries and that causes a lot of angry ghosts! lol
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there have also been mass graves for the poor/unclaimed bodies throughout the decades and even centuries. and they are unmarked. again, cremation is popular because it less expensive.
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But we don't bury everyone all in one spot (i.e., the state of Texas).

Every town has a few cemeteries. Most of them have been there since the town was founded. Some of them grow larger but eventually they run out of land to annex.

Where do all the dead bodies go? No new cemeteries are springing up in my town.

For example, in my hometown, the pop. is about 38,000. The town is about to celebrate is 200 year anniversary. There are two city-owned cemeteries: One boasts an estimate of 90 acres of burial ground, while the other has an estimate of 7 acres of burial ground. There are three others: one is a Catholic cemetery, and one is a National cemetery. In the "general" one, over a five day period, there were 10 burials. This cemetery has been in the town for 150 years. How can they keep squeeazing in more corpses?
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You haven't provided area of the remaining 3 cemeteries, but even if we assume just 100 acres of total cemetery area, that would mean 43,56,000 sq feet. At 40-50 sq feet per corpse, this area should be enough to bury about 1,00,000 bodies..

150 years should account for approx 3 generations..Assuming the population of your town must be about half one generation (i.e. about 50 years) back..the total number of people who must have died in your town in the last 150 years must be less than its current population of 38000.

So your cemeteries still have lot of space remaining to bury few more generations of your hometown tounge





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