Community | July 08, 2009 | 18 comments

Oscar Mayer Dies

source: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/50179682.html

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Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Madison-based meat processing company that bears his name, has died at the age of 95.

His wife Geraldine said he died from complications of old age.

He was the third Oscar Mayer in the family that founded Oscar Mayer Foods, which once was Madison's largest private employer. His grandfather, Oscar F. Mayer, died in 1955 and his father, Oscar G. Mayer Sr., died in 1965.

Mayer retired as chairman of the board in 1977 at age 62 soon after the company recorded its first $1 billion year. The company was later sold to General Foods, now a division of Philip Morris.
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  • rockstarmillionaire
  • PressCore
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    • Bright fellow Oscar G. He lived soooo much longer than Oscar F. and his dad Oscar G. Sr. Although my guess is more an inference than a deduction, I think he might have been a vegetarian. Especialy if his dad and grandad ate their company's meat products, and he had a chance to see what it was doing to them. One guaranteed way to live longer is to avoid the E. Coli bacteria infections that form in the small intestine from regular meat eating. It's difficult to physicaly unlearn meat eating if you've done so for many years. Though the smell of barbeque won't make you salvate like Pavlov's dogs at the dinner bell, there is a physical conditioned response in the form of cravings that take longer to fade. But with time, the fruits, vegetables, grains and chese that taste so much better now, will taste even better still when I no longer have the occassional meat cravings. Until then I'm sure that eating all that tuna in the interim will deposit so much mercury in me that I'll no longer need a thermometer to register the outside temperature. But that's the price I pay for not needing to take sick days. And living so long I'd die only because I'd be too pooped to fart anyway.

    • 2 years ago
  • rockstarmillionaire
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    • PressCore:

      Although I'm not a proponent of any cooked food diet, almost every vegetable that can be eaten whole, fresh and raw contains all eight of the essential amino acids and therefore, provides us with complete proteins. (There are twenty amino acids involved in human nutrition. Eight of these can only be supplied through our foods while the other twelve can by synthesized by the liver.) Plant foods contain no cholesterol.

      I do agree with you that no pill or powder that has had any of its water removed can properly be called a "whole food" supplement, and anyone who markets their dehydrated product as such is kidding themselves. The water in our plant foods is simply too critical for our cellular health to be compromised, and no drinking water of any kind can ever adequately make up the difference. When the water is removed, the oxidative process that occurs has a degrading impact on the nutrients that remain, leaving supplements far less nutritious than their whole-food counterparts. However, when we regularly consume animal foods that contain cholesterol or saturated fat, we ingest quantities that exceed our phyisological needs, with deleterious consequences to our health. Excess cholesterol accumulates and forms plaques within artery walls, leading to atherosclerosis, decreasing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, disrupting hormonal balance, and sometimes decreasing cell permeability. Also linked to cancer. Unfortunately, most medical doctors are qualified to speak on nutrition since most of them have only gotten a few hours of study of nutrition. They are there to address the symptoms and fix it up. Not prevent it. The rare exception are doctors who make it a point to study nutrition.

    • 2 years ago
  • NonaSuomi
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    • PressCore:

      True. On all points. But the main problem it seems is that when the average person thinks to eat meat, they don't realize the definition of the word "moderation" A few ounces of lean meat a day is alright, but a 12+ oz. steak at Outback is going to be a problem.

    • 2 years ago
  • unimatrix0
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  • canofmeatfilm
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    • I prefer Hebrew National, but this guy has been making Bolonga since, as the late Chich Hearn would say, hector was a pup. Good Luck Mr. Mayer.

    • 2 years ago
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