Comments on: Are We Really What We Eat, or How We Act?

By: chowmama | Weekly Digest

chowmama | Weekly Digest — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:08:25 +0000

[...] emphasis on what we eat, maybe we should spend more time directly engaging to change the system (Civil Eats via [...]

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:27:38 +0000

I totally agree that it will take wholesale systemic change to address the problems in our food system. However, I also believe that politicians use consumers as an excuse for inaction,i.e. “the voters don’t really want local or organic food or they aren’t willing or able to pay more for it, etc.” It’s the same with energy conservation. Until we show them with our daily consumption patterns that we want change (i.e.local food, mass transit, etc.), politicians won’t vote for systemic change. So keep voting for better food three times a day, and keep writing, phoning and calling your elected officials demanding that they start subsidizing healthy food more, and uhealthy food less.

By: Paul Kobulnicky

Paul Kobulnicky — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:21:27 +0000

We have to avoid either/or labeling. We are typically not one thing or another but rather more likely to act one way or the other. The key is “more likely”. The urge to categorize people is one of the most damaging parts of our current society. It is also, IMHO, one of the reasons that polling is so terribly flawed right now. If I am asked if I support the President and am not given an option on the particular issue or whether I support/not support him from the left or the right. Rather I am asked for a pure, binary yes/no. This doesn’t work to build either informed discussion or a civil society.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:46:39 +0000

Sadly, the huge water contamination problems are in the processing of “Fast Foods” convenience foods, frozen foods, bottled foods and the like!In a decentralized system like ours with suburbs,exo-burbs and living even further out, the commuter and the food freezer are king! We need factories that offer Dorm living to cut transportation costs, feed workers en masse at one location with fresher foods and bio-gas their poop for energy for the factory!Give the worker the chance to choose! How many very expensive personal cars are considered absolutley necessary to get to work? Is this huge subsidy of our corporate world fair to the worker? How much faster could he pay down a mortgage if he didn’t have to own a car to get to work? Why can’t factories be fair and give us dorms, cafeterias and busing to their obscure locations, and let us decide when to buy a car – possibly after housing is paid for, children’s education looked after? We Americans subsidize the same corporate bastards that rape us with poorly built, over – priced, products, loaded with planned obsolescence and ready to hurt our ego’s with unnecessary model changes! Perhaps Chinese products will not, due to their commie origins, be so exploitative , and give us a fair chance, much as the higher quality, longer living Japanese cars have done! The “American Dream” an advertiser propagandists wildest commission generating crock of crap ever foisted on American folk, and swallowed hook, line and sinker! has us eating to unhealthy obesity, we are famous the world over as slovenly and gluttons with bigger than normal bodies, and even bigger fatter asses! Yet, we play follow the leader, and memorize every catchy tune, every glossy page, every sit-com innuendo, ruining our health and nation for the sake of being “Up to Date” and “In”. Like Bugs said,”What a bunch of maroons!”

By: ted ledetter

ted ledetter — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:51:38 +0000

…we are what we eat & what we eat eats us … meat bloodDNA morphs us into beef-bullies, piggish porkers, chickens, crabby & fishy & salty & nutty & seedy persons
… salts tighten and constrict, which makes us uptite, tense & angry
… sticky foods clog & suffocate my body organs, cells and pipes
…sticky foods include pastes = flour+water= papierMache paste = pastry = pasta = bread
… other major stickies include bacon, butter, cheese seeds, nuts & peanut-butter … elvis was bloated & killed by eating too many of his favorite food, which was a bacon-banana &peanut-butter sandwich fried in lard (google “elvis sandwich”?)

… it’s simple physics … if it’s finger-lickin’ good, it’s bad for me

… 2 B a sweet-heart, eat sweet fresh red ripe berries, cheeries, grapes, mangoes, melons, peaches, plums and live oxygenated water
… 2B a sour-puss, eat sourkraut, sourdough, cabonated drinks and any dead food, which includes anything that needs 2 B cooked

… bible genesis says that we are given fruits bearing seeds for our “meat” … fruits, not seeds (= nuts = grains = corn = rice = beans = peas = soy =sesame )

… only way to know fer sure is to test all this myself, ’cause you can’t be/live anything anyone says unless you have tested your own body … ’nuff said