Dangerous foods and you

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not grateful for food, and although most food is good for your body and will enable you to pursue your dreams without fear of exhaustion and emaciation, we are saddened that some foods carry with them great peril.

Many of you wrote in when this incident occurred to ask whether the GPD would change its policy on liquid nitrogen in drinks.  To them we responded that the GPD has always deprecated liquid nitrogen in drinks, to which we got many responses asking what "deprecate" means.  To this response we provided this link.  We are somewhat disappointed that our supporters didn't understand our policy on dangerous foods, but we admit that choosing words such as "deprecate" instead of simpler words like "disapprove of" or "strongly discourage" contributed to the confusion, and we vow to be more careful of advanced vocabulary in the future.  We have always discouraged the handling of products such as liquid nitrogen that could cause serious harm without proper precautions.

Anyway, when some of you wrote in regarding this incident and asked whether the GPD would change its policies on eating live cockroaches,  we realized we had a real problem.  The GPD is very concerned about the welfare of all of our supporters and would never condone the eating of a live supporter by another live supporter.  Once supporters are dead, however, the GPD policy is to let each supporter make his or her own decision.  Many of you submitted "excerpts" from our policy, but when we looked through our policy we couldn't find them.  It seems that some unscrupulous individual (most likely from the New Company, but as we haven't had time to confirm it beyond a shadow of a doubt, we'll just say "some individual") has been circulating inflammatory "excerpts" from our policies in the hopes that you will become angry.  The lack of violent protests shows, however, that our enemies have underestimated us once again.  We would like to thank all of our supporters for not creating a situation, and, for those that will be in the western United States this week, would like to invite you to a party at GNU Public Dungeon D-442.  Contact your local GPD office for more details.

While we are pleased that these incidents have not resulted in violent protests, we would like to remind supporters that the GPD policies on just about any subject are available at your local GPD office, and that we expect you to check your facts before protesting about them, even if it is by e-mail!