Archive for the ‘food’ tag
Food, Inc., a Review
Last week I saw an early screening movie Food, Inc. Despite the movie’s call for an open dialog about food, eating, and the industrial food system, the movie will be nothing more than another in a string of “liberal documentaries” that do more to polarize a population than to create an open dialog. Read the rest of this entry »
Odd Health Kicks
For weeks now, I’ve been hearing the strangest sound coming from one of my neighbor’s apartments. At first, I thought it was a vacuum cleaner or other medium-duty appliance, only to discover the noise coming during the early and late hours of the day. It suddenly occurred to me this morning: what I’m hearing from my neighbor’s apartment is a blender.
Blenders, it seems, come and go in the food fad category. Health “experts” seem to come up with new, more noxious concoctions some combination of fruit, vegetables, and a “specially-formulated protein blend”, the last element also used to advertise dog food. At what point did liquifying an entire meal become a substitute for actual food?
