Archive for the ‘food’ Category
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Welcome to Buy Nothing Day, where we try to stop all consumer spending for an entire 24-hour period. Gasp!
I love this holiday. Even though I already screwed it up this morning by dashing to the grocery store for Cream of Wheat.
Even so, I like the idea of noticing, ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
My son just discovered what candy is all about.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18405363/
Just another story from our industrialized food chain. I'd like to see a warning label on all supermarket foods:
"This food product contains unknown quantities of unknown substances. In fact, even though this may look like chicken or beef or spinach, we actually have no idea if it actually is any ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Does anyone use a sandwich maker? My wife has one. She actually asked for it as a wedding present and she does things like put strained Moroccan stew between slices of bread and then -- psshhhh -- squeezes and grills it into this odd sort of squished grilled sandwich. More ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
One of the things that interested me about last years' e.coli in spinach thing was that it underlined how little we know about where/how our food is produced. There's a whole vast network of growers, packagers, distributors, and sales outlets and we have a pretty imperfect understanding of what happens ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
The whole GMO thing has gotten me thinking about where we're headed as a democracy.
Technically, the democracy thing means that the general populace has a strong say in their local/regional/national governance. And when it was first created, it seems like it must have been pretty okay. When the only ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
This is related to my spluttering about GMO's on Daniel Abraham's blog a week or so ago...
Dr. Katherine Miller (who happens to be teaching a course this semester on sci-fi and science, how cool is that?) just pointed me to the Monsanto vs Schmeiser case, in which a farmer ...
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