Debate: Can Humanity survive our technolgical infancy?
Side: Woe for Us

But the black death wouldn't have happened if we had current medical technologies and hygiene standards. In other words: both war and disease have gotten a lot better in our modern age.However, we can now manufacture diseases - diseases which would make the Black Death look like child's play.How does freezing meat taint it?I don't know; however, this is what I was told by several people involved in the food industry.As far as your complaints about foods, I could point out that the average life expectancy in the early 20th century was 30-45Where?I studied genealogy a few years back; most of my relatives - poor relatives, mind you - died in their sixties or seventies. This was back in the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s. Also, there were very few cases of infant mortality in my family back then. That covers both Canada and the US. If the averages from your source are for the entire world, than I remind you that in much of Africa and parts of Asia the average lifespans are fairly low; also, I remind you that records at the time were horribly shoddy.You can eat organic foods that aren't processed and don't use pesticides for not a whole lot more money.That's a matter of opinion.For a family who can hardly afford the cheapest of foods, how are they to afford organic?The fact that the whole market isn't organic shows that people don't care and it isn't having that much of an effect on their life.Whether they care about it or not is besides the point; I am arguing about that which is best for the populace, not that which the populace desires.I'm sorry about your (gross) medical issuesIt is not so much a medical issue as it is a result of their poor-quality food. Also, most of the people with whom I am acquainted have had similar effects from eating these types of food.but I (and many others I know) have never had any issues with processed foods. That you know of.Have you ever experienced bouts of flatulence? Constipation? Stomach pains? Those, and many other "symptoms" people may overlook, but I argue from experience that we'd be a much healthier nation without processed foods.For further evidence, see my video at the bottom.If you want to have a real bad experience with food though, go to a foreign country that doesn't have our same food standards (some place in Africa or Asia for example).Yes, of course; however, their hygiene undoubtedly has not increased much over the last few centuries.Otherwise we would vote out the people who appointed the head of the FDA (yay for democracy!).I watched a Canadian documentary awhile back which stated that when a package indicated the country in which it was made - typically Canada- the company, according to law, only needs to indicate the nation from which the majority (or rather, a certain percentage; it's been about six or seven years since I watched it) of the item being purchased came from. That means that they can be selling you, say, fish from a region that is considered 'off limits', however, they can legally state that the item came from Canada if the package is from Canada!What's more important is that Codex Alimentarius is not legally binding for any country, it's just recommendations.Yes, however, it is part of the WTO. If two countries come to the WTO with a dispute regarding foodstuffs, the nation which is Codex-Compliant automatically wins the dispute, no matter the validity of the other nation's arguments!