Food For Thought – Tuesday, November 3rd
2009 November 3
Here’s some food for thought for today…
- Back to the land without leaving your desk – Farmville has become the most popular application on Facebook – ever.
- From the “this study is a no-brainer” department – processed food is linked to depression. Or maybe it’s because people turn to junk food when they’re chronically stressed and upset.
- Please… don’t do this with your leftover Halloween candy. Please.
- Corner grocery stores in Newark NJ are getting new equipment, paid for by city officials, as long as they agree to stock fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Big Ag is feeling threatened by food advocates and begins to bully push back. Maybe because the facts aren’t in their favour.
- We’ve all seen Hellman’s attempt to manipulate consumers and the media with their skeezy “eat local” campaign, but it could be worse – they could be trying to turn us all into wannabe-rebellious hipster douchbags like the folks in the Miracle Whip commercial. Dudes, your choice of salad dressing makes you neither an environmentalist or cool as fuck. For serious.
- Two words – vested interest. As much as we all want to believe in and support small local farmers and ranchers raising grass-fed beef, the environment would still be better off if we all ate less meat (and dairy). An argument from a rancher citing the *lack* of environmental destruction caused by farming isn’t going to play well, especially with new figures showing livestock agriculture accounts for 51% of the world’s greenhouse gases.
