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
Here is a trailer for Food Inc.
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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 me this morning) wrote
” When they add a credit card slot, there will really be something to worry about.”
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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 to market real food. Lickable ads for grassfed beef? I think not.
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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 returns. Well, I’m not yet fully conscious yet. I still feel like a sailor who was about to come about on a good run on a smooth sea and got knocked overboard by the boom. However I am awake enough to realize that if I’m ever going to write anything of moment again, I should start taking baby steps now.
So here is my hand coming up out of the water and grasping the gunwale. I hope to be flopping around in the bottom of the boat coughing up sardines soon. In the meantime, please accept my apologies for appearing to have jumped ship and consider for a moment how much worse life would be if our livelihoods were dependant on cheap chicken wings.
“Shares of Buffalo Wild Wings may be overcooked, as soaring wing prices and a recession threaten to take a bite out of the fast-growing restaurant chain’s profits.” (Star Tribune)
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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 blathers about some hitherto unknown or overlooked enzyme rich, chock-full-of-antioxidant plant or animal product?
I’ve been seeing products made from Acai berries for awhile now, and I treat them in the same wariness that I’ve always treated the foods and diets that flood into the marketplace tethered to promises of better health. Nothing promotes good health better than a varied diet and lots of rest and exercise.
But never mind. It’s fun to watch the experts who push this stuff on the public squirm when the evidence turns against them. To wit: the words of a celebrity dermatologist who sells an acai supplement
“I certainly think açaí, the fruit, has great health benefits,” he said in an interview. “I would call it a superfood, but I’ve always spoken generically.” [Source: The New York Times]
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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 handmade food. And after you have watched it, surf over to the host website and look at some of the other cons that helped to spawn one of the greatest rip-offs of American culture ever (Classic TV Ads).
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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 handmade food. And after you have watched it, surf over to the host website and look at some of the other cons that helped to spawn one of the greatest rip-offs of American culture ever (Classic TV Ads).
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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 dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
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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 dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
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A Hunger Aritist (Redux) 
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