Nicholas Kristoff takes up the cause

As the newly released documentary Food Inc. makes its way through the movie theaters of the nation, it seems to be churning up a wake of outrage over the way that food is treated within the black box of the gastro-industrial complex.
Op-Ed Columnist – Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms – NYTimes.com
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Corny Movie

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

The matrix adds another node

The Coca Cola company has developed a “soda dispenser” capable of blending drinks and transmitting what it sells and how much it sells back to Coke.

“Freestyle will become Coke’s front-line robotic army for business intelligence, sending massive amounts of consumption data back to the beverage company’s Atlanta headquarters.”
Gary Allen (who sent this link to [...]

More Chaff from the Genuis Mill

If you don’t have a headache now you might be pounding down aspirin after you discover that a company called First Flavor is about to roll out it’s first batch of peel and lick ads. This can be seen in a number of ways but it’s undoubtedly not something that is going to be used [...]

Drowning Man Survives, Finds Chicken Wing Prices Still High

I lost my writing mojo a couple of weeks ago following the death of close friend. I’m usually pretty resilient in the face of heartbreak but as my friend Michael Ruhlman wrote in a recent email “sometimes life drops a ceiling beam on your head” and there is nothing you can do until consciousness [...]

Acai SuperFood BS

Why are we so willing to believe health claims about foods that are not supported by strong empirical evidence? Is our desire to be healthy without having to think too much about what is required to maintain good health so strong that our innate skepticism buckles whenever an earnest friend, slick salesman or too-eager-to-write-good-copy journalist [...]

Template of Evil

If you have ever wondered how our great culture got to the point where we needed to debate how we should eat, then take a look at this vintage commercial for Chef-Boy-AR-Dee pizza mix. It’s a veritable template for every bullsh-t corporate appeal to the public to give over its right to cook and eat [...]

Template of Evil

If you have ever wondered how our great culture got to the point where we needed to debate how we should eat, then take a look at this vintage commercial for Chef-Boy-AR-Dee pizza mix. It’s a veritable template for every bullsh-t corporate appeal to the public to give over its right to cook and eat [...]

The Enemy

I’m channeling Shakespeare into this because my words have lost me.
O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerousIs that temptation that doth goad us onTo sin in loving virtue.
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The Enemy

I’m channeling Shakespeare into this because my words have lost me.
O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerousIs that temptation that doth goad us onTo sin in loving virtue.
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