Do you subscribe to Meatingplace headlines and blog updates? I can’t remember how I came across the site, but I continue to read and get pissed; read, get pissed. It’s my education on inserting bias and “fast, flexible, fully automated sausage production.” The industry blogs are even more fun, where bloggers like Yvonne Vizzier Thaxton [...]
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Slant and Sausage
Posted in Big Food, Blogs, In the News, Meat, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on November 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Speaking of indoctrination…
Posted in Events, Health, Media, Reading and Research, Status Quo on September 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Don’t ya just love all this “indoctrination” talk stirred up because—gasp!—the President seeks to directly engage schoolchildren? Let us focus on some legitimate indoctrination: “By the year 2000, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that one in five schools participating in the National School Lunch Program had brand-name fast foods in their lunchrooms.” —School Lunch [...]
Arugula Demystified
Posted in Agriculture, Media, Status Quo on February 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I am sick of people using food to exacerbate perceived divisions. Just yesterday a state representative invoked “arugula” to conjure feelings of “us” and “them.” How is it that a salad green has come to represent elites, or in this case ignorant, elitist city-folk? Remember Obama’s so-called “arugula moment” in mid-2007? Ridiculous. It grows in [...]
Scientific Evidence of What We Already Knew
Posted in Big Food, Eating Out, Meat, Media, Status Quo on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Authors of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences tested for carbon and nitrogen isotopes in 480 servings of beef, chicken, and french fries. From these tests, the authors could tell that the animals were kept in confinement, ate a mostly-corn diet, and maybe even ate their own poo. Very [...]
Fast Food Nation
Posted in Big Food, Eating Out, Meat, Media, Status Quo on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Several weeks have passed since I watched Fast Food Nation, and I still can’t get it out of my head. The movie weaves fact—from the nonfiction book of the same name—into a fabricated plot. It’s an odd format, but the message is the same: fast food drives the demand for massive amounts of cheap meat, [...]
An Economy of Scale
Posted in Big Food, In the News, Meat, Status Quo on May 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Did the term “factory farm” exist 50 years ago? Ranching typically means raising cows, horses, or sheep (right?), but ranching can not describe our “concentrated animal feeding operations,” where we grow cows. So, in that regard, “farming” is apt. Methods have certainly devolved over the last 50 years; now corporations dictate the what, when, where, [...]
Aw, shucks.
Posted in Events, Meat, Media, Status Quo on February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last night I shared laughs with some new friends at Trattoria il Centro, enjoyed an arugula pizza, and established that the movie we were about to go see was definitely not about The Corndog Man. We headed over to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art to watch the documentary King Corn and hear a panel [...]
Delusions
Posted in Big Food, Local, Market, Meat, Status Quo on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Every day I pass a meat market on my way to and from work. Matt and I had the morning off to take the dogs to the vet, so we made a point to stop in and buy some meat. We parked in front of the windowless building. The back/side has a corral that I [...]
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