feeding my rpi to my dog

Give it to your kid, they'll know what to do...

Chris.

Dogs are carnivores so they would not touch a RPi since it is a fruit.

Er, dogs are omnivores, like us they can eat anything that won't actually make 'em ill or kill 'em.

My post wasn't supposed to be taken seriously ;-)

You know full well that if "You give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile" in most usenet news groups. :-)

Talking of which (I'm claiming my mile) :-

Yes, dogs are omniverous to some extent but, just like us, they can eat stuff that not only makes them unwell but can also kill them. The classic food item in this case being chocolate.

Our own unhealthy eating habits are the result of our modern lifestyle driven by our greater dependence on 'convenience foods' produced by a competitive food industry that allows the whole system of 'modern civilisation' to function with the necessary efficiency required.

I'm not trying to lay blame here on any one sector of 'modern civilisation'. The food industry are a vital part of today's modern lifestyle (concentration of the bulk of the country's population into urban city living creating a legitimate need for a 'Food Industry' to exist).

The big problem here is a lack of suitable regulation and control that aught to exist to prevent things going wrong in such a system (such as the 'obesity epidemic', excessive dietry intake of salt leading to vascular problems and so on).

Hundreds of years ago, before there was such a thing as 'A Food Industry', most of the population didn't have the luxury of simply exchanging money for a ready made meal.

It was a case of assembling the raw ingredients (assuming you could afford them if you weren't actually growing or rearing your own) and creating your own meals to sustain yourself (and perhaps a family).

It was a lifestyle that wasn't too far removed from that of our hunter gatherer ancestors and, as such, still in tune with our dietry needs that had evolved over millions of years.

The needs of modern society have divorced most everyone from the reality of food production and made us almost totally reliant on a food industry to act on our behalf as farmer and chef. Unfortunately in a competitive market, this does mean that, not unreasonably, the various sectors of the industry are always trying to attract as much custom as possible by offering us irresistably tasty foods and therein lies the problem of 'unhealthy eating habits'.

The problem isn't so much that the food industry is producing 'unhealthy food stuffs' so much as creating concoctions that had never existed over the millions of years of our evolutionary development which were so incredibly iresistable to the point where most of us were eating them in unhealthy quantities, not helped by the advertising industry's attempts at turning us all into food junkies.

The problem isn't as simple as most people might think but the most efficient solution of regulation is, seemingly, being resisted by both government and the food industry.

Regulations relating to the production and marketing need not involve outright bans of the more irresistable food stuffs, just better and more rationalised labelling of the products being supplied for human consumption along with a better awareness in the population of just what forms the basis of a healthy diet.

The benefit of such regulation was proven 70 odd years ago with the introduction of war time food rationing. The (UK) populace had never been more healthier than at any other time in history. The big problem was that once rationing ended, the population went on an "Eating Binge" that the food industry has been only too happy to oblige ever since.

BTW, I really wouldn't recommend feeding a RasPi to your dog.

I just need a Kilometre ;-)

A long time ago my GF's dog used to eat shoes, clothes and pretty much anything except fruit and veg.

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I agree with most of this but I don't believe the wartime rationing was all that good. Some harmful foodstuffs were rationed, but many people were on the verge of starvation. My parents grew up during the war so I have been told many stories!

Regulation would be strongly resisted as some businesses would lose money. Anyhow I wouldn't trust any government to devise sensible regulations - they would be bound to c*ck it up.

;-)

Even in the mid-fifties (when I were a lad in Wales) we still had "milk tablets" given us in school instead of the real thing. I can still taste them when I say the words. I kind of liked them actually. Years later I lived on a farm and we kept dog kibble in a big bag (for the dog), and I'd put a bunch of it in my pockets and nibble on it while I did the chores. That's why what's left of my hair is so shiny today. And my nose is always cold. But I can't fetch a stick. We used to buy broken cookies to feed the swine, but them pigs didn't get as many cookies as we kids.

Chocolate-covered Raspberry Pi ...

In a mad moment - Wilbur Eleven mumbled :

with a dollop of extra thick double cream :))

Johnny, that was at least two kilometers... ;-)

I think reposting 90 or so lines for a 1 line comment could be considered taking the proverbial. You don't get your net connection from AOL per chance?

:-)

The length of the post I was responding to was exactly the setup for the joke.

But if you have to explain 'em...

probably more apetising that tne real thing, (imagine fresh milk stored without refrigeration).

I see you do get your net connection via AOL, eternal September!

;-)

Actually, AOL is only my primary email address (and has been unchanged since AppleLink became AOL). My ISP is Comcast.

I kinda guessed that was why you didn't snip anything out. :-)