True. In the UK, everyone went mad and got GM foods marginalized here, because of our shitty tabloids making them out to be poisonous. We'd have the ability to use less pesticides if we GMed our food to be more pest-resistant.
-Angry Lawyer
...then don't buy canned food? Generally, you get what you pay for - it's not science's fault that certain companies are happy to stick crap in their products.
Monosodium Glutamate is recognised as a safe additive, although some people are sensitive to it. It also occurs naturally in food...
Most stuff about what we eat these days being artificial and toxic are scare stories spread by media "nutritionists", who want to peddle vitamin pills.
-Angry Lawyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcode
I'd recommend C++ if you're hardcore, though, because it means you can apply it to games programming, which is typically C++.
-Angry Lawyer
Java's your best bet, then, but that's because I hate VB. Plus it's platform independant, and you can get free IDEs for Java, and apparently it's going to be the way forward in coding stuff.
-Angry Lawyer
Visual basic is easy to learn, but you'll develop bad habits from doing it.
Java's pretty newbie friendly, and is quite similar to C++, which is the ULTIMATE.
How do you plan to apply your programming knowledge?
-Angry Lawyer
...Science has had huge benefits in the food industry. We can have food not go off after storing it for a day. We no longer have to roll stuff in salt to stop it going off. We can grow huge amounts of food on areas that would produce little a few hundred years ago. We know that putting folic...
It's exactly the same concept as having meat grow on trees. The meat is born without a nervous system, and therefore never thinks, or feels pain, or anything.
-Angry Lawyer