False pleasure False pleasure False pleasure may be a pleasure based on a false belief (as of supposedly having come into money), or a pleasure compared with more real, or greater pleasures. Lacan maintained that philosophers should seek to "discern not true pleasures from false, for such a distinction is impossible to make, but the true and false goods that pleasure points to". Plato devoted much attention to the belief that "no pleasure save that of the wise is quite true and pure - all others are shadows only" - both in The Republic and in his late dialogue Philebus. Augustine saw
Genetically modified food controversies basis before introduction. Nonetheless, members of the public are much less likely than scientists to perceive GM foods as safe. The legal and regulatory status of GM foods varies by country, with some nations banning or restricting them, and others permitting them with widely differing degrees of regulation. Consumer concerns about food quality first became prominent long before the advent of GM foods in the 1990s. Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" led to the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, the first major US legislation on the subject. This began an enduring concern over the purity and later "naturalness" of