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If Supersize Me didn't turn you off to fast food, perhaps reading Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser will do the trick. Turned my stomach, anyway.
In the potato fields and processing plants of Idaho, in the ranchlands east
of Colorado Springs, in the feedlots and slaughterhouses of the High Plains,
you
can see the effects of fast food on the nation's rural life, its
environment,
its workers, and its health.
Why would anyone eat a burger that contains the DNA of over a thousand different animals before being chemically or mechanically tenderized? And how can they feed such sh*t to children?
On Thursday, July 20th at 6pm, Eric Schlosser will be at Ranch Steakhouse & Market signing copies of his famous book that has also been made into a movie. For only $45 per person, enjoy great food (order veggies, please) drinks and awesome entertainment. The money raised will benefit injured packing plant workers.
Call 719.593.1955 for more information.
posted by kate @ 9:20 AM
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My garden is totally organic, and it's a bitch to pick off those pesky tomato worms daily. I found 13 one day. But I feed them to the frogs in my pond. They love them and eat mosquitoes in return. I also deal with the zuchini bugs, various worms, japanese beetles, etc.
I enjoy my veggie scrambled eggs every morning. I go to the farm that supplies "Whole Foods" with their eggs that come from happy, healthy chickens. You should see their pecky little smiles. Onions, mushrooms, zuchini, garlic, turnips, spinach all leap into my frying pan with olive oil. Their little minds are to underdeveloped to realize what is going to happen to them.
But ya know, when I'm on the road, I slide right into the evil fast food places and woof down a burger without a problem, not a thought, and I've read those books, along with the apple one (too lazy to find my copy).
I guess my brain compartmentalizes the information and rationalizes that it's only one fast food burger a month or so.
Despite my wife's best efforts to make me a veggie-hugger, there's nothing like sitting down to a nicely grilled t-bone or plate of ribs or chicken cordon blue. Now, them's good eatin. Oh yeah, give me a pea or two to go with it.
I firmly believe that some of our ancestors grew up eating meat and some grew up in places where there were grains and some where there were lots of fruits...and that guides our internal desires. Intellectually you can change, but the drivers and urges still remain the same.
Damn, I am loquacious lately.
Hmmm.... I wonder if the movie will speak to the sprawl of our nation. Hello Eastern Colorado Springs! It looks like someone barfed up a bunch of beige.
Why do we let developers control the town's growth? What ever happened to city planning and permits. My understanding is that city planners are there to prevent their towns from looking like a vomit splatter, but I guess we all have to readjust our thinking.
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