I’ve not posted in a while, but I almost spit my morning coffee out (in a chuckling shock) while reading this, and wanted to share.
Headline – PETA wants to put vegan ads on border fence. The billboard would read:
“If the Border Patrol Doesn’t Get You, the Chicken and Burgers Will — Go Vegan.”
and would [...]
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burger fears for immigrants?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fat, vegan on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
this person helps make decisions about bioltechnology and ethics. i just wanted you to know that.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bioethics, politics on May 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A quote from an essay written by a member of the President’s Council for Bioethics:
Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone–a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public [...]
organic$
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food prices, organic on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been a bit lazy about posting, though I keep thinking of things I want to discuss on here. Here’s one thing:
I’ve had several people email me and/or ask me for my thoughts on the recent New York Times article ‘Sticker Shock in the Organic Food Aisles’. Martin and Severson’s question is: how [...]
Quiet/riot
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By now you have heard about food riots around the world, from Haiti to Yemen, across Africa, and elsewhere. I feel as though this blog should be weighing in on what is going on, but we’re all overwhelmed with other commitments right now (as you’ve probably guessed from the recent scarcity of posts).
In any case, [...]
Fun and games
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just found out about a new computer game called Fatworld. The game creators describe it this way: “FATWORLD is a video game about the politics of nutrition. It explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S. The game’s goal is not to tell people what to eat or how to [...]
Good germs, bad germs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged food industry, food safety, milk on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the April 2008 issue of Harper’s there’s a really interesting article on “the raw-milk underground” – farmers who produce and sell unpasteurized milk to people who prefer its taste, nutritional content, and beneficial bacteria. Selling raw milk is illegal in Canada and in half of U.S. states.
Raw milk advocates say that we are [...]
serving up the blog equivalent of frozen pizza
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged contamination on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t been posting much lately because I’ve been swamped with work. Funny how writing a scholarly article dealing with an agri-food issue makes me less likely to blog about it. I hope I’ll be able to write something about it here, once the article is submitted. Sneak preview: it has to [...]
