Into outer darkness then with the pill-roller and his wife. They have missed the point of the world; they are purely and simply mad. Man invented cooking before he thought of nutrition. To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish [...]
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The Point of Food
Posted in Food on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness”
Posted in Food on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than it is useful. Necessity is the mother only of clichés. It takes playfulness to make poetry. Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, page 38
American Food Industry: A Shortage of Long-Term Perspective
Posted in Agriculture, Environment, Food on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cheap food is going to be popular as long as the social and environmental costs of that food are charged to the future. There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the diseases that fast food causes. One of the leading products of the American food industry has become patients [...]
Chesterton on Cheese
Posted in Food, G.K. Chesterton on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. Chesterton
Jonathan Safran Foer on Writing about Eating Animals
Posted in Animals, Food on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Almost always when I told someone I was writing a book about “eating animals”, they assumed, even without knowing anything about my views, that it was a case for vegetarianism. It’s a telling assumption, one that implies not only that a thorough inquiry into animal agriculture would lead one away from eating meat, but that [...]
A Poultry Farmer Speaks on Factory-Farmed Chickens
Posted in Agriculture, Ethics, Food on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
People care about animals. I believe that. They just don’t want to know or to pay. A fourth of all chickens have stress fractures. It’s wrong. They’re packed body to body, and can’t escape their waste, and never see the sun. Their nails grow around the bars of their cages. It’s wrong. They feel their [...]
A Poultry Farmer on the Meat We Eat
Posted in Agriculture, Food, Health on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he’s seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of [...]
Frank Reese on the Duties of a Poultry Farmer
Posted in Agriculture, Food on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t want that responsibility, don’t become a farmer. Because that’s what it takes to do it right. And if you can’t do it right, don’t do it. It’s that simple. And I’ll tell you another thing: if consumers don’t want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn’t eat meat. Frank [...]
Overfed and Undernourished: Part 1
Posted in Food, Health, Politics on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
And perhaps worst of all, our food is increasingly bad for us, even dangerous. A series of recalls involving contaminated foods this year — including an outbreak of salmonella from tainted peanuts that killed at least eight people and sickened 600 — has consumers rightly worried about the safety of their meals. A food system [...]
Michael Pollan on CAFOs
Posted in Food, Technology on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Our Decrepit Food Factories.”
