Posted on 06/16/2011 2:56:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
My son complains that sometimes they get served stuff and they’re not exactly sure what it is. That’s a fail right out of the gate.
My favorite bit from the movie Meatballs
Here’s an update on tonight’s dinner. It was veal. I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight’s mystery meat contest is Jeffrey Corbin who guessed “some kind of beef.”
It’s not just kids that are affected by this. Years ago I was doing some work in a nursing home. One evening they served dinner, and one of the residents called me over, pointed to something on her plate, and asked, “What is this?” I said I didn’t know. She asked, “Well, how can we eat it if we don’t know what it is?”
There. Fixed it.
Exactly. The next step will be to ban lunches prepared at home...it's for the children, you know. One step at a time they're expanding their power and authority over our choices. Have you ever read Cass Sunstein's Nudge? If not, check out some quotes from the book I included in this article. You can find excerpts from the book online at Yale Press, I believe.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/excerpts/thaler_nudge.pdf
But they are “unhealthy” only when consumed in large volumes and by people with sedate lifestyles.
And this, rather than the food itself which leads to morbidly obese people who die earlier. People have been eating fried foods for centuries but it only became a problem when such food became cheap and people ate more and had less strenuous jobs. Work which burned off those high calorie foods.
“Processed foods” are not inertly unhealthy. Yes fresh has more nutrients and tastes much better but processed foods are not dangerous. I live on a farm and we eat canned food because some fruits and vegetables we do not raise ourselves. We too prefer food as fresh as possible. Not strictly “organic’ as we do use pesticides and inorganic fertilizer as needed).
Now factory farms is another matter. Crowding livestock into cages or pens, letting them stand in their own waste Or the use of antibiotics or hormones to fatten up the animals is something that not only is bad farming practice but we feel is just plain wrong. Even immoral. So is feeding animal based protein(animal byproducts, i.e. slaughterhouse remains) to cattle is inertly dangerous because of diseases like mad cow disease is wrong.
This practices will cause untold miseries in the future more than another actions in our food supply. That's my opinion for what's it worth...
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