BS: economic food poisoning

Subject: RE: BS: economic food poisoning
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 11:09 AM

admin (bad headache day... : final version here
please delete the above posts

There is a earthen dam 5 miles away from where I live downstream.
When the dam began to leak badly and the national media turned its eye
on the sad shape it was in, I went to look for myself.

No one else I knew went to look or study elevation maps.
They just swallowed whatever the media was told to say by the groups
who had the most at stake for their careers and bank accounts.

The economic dam for the country and world is washing away and
precious few people are going to look for themselves. Instead they
just swallowed whatever conservative stew was served them for the
last 20 years. The stew had a policy of no regulation, no cops, no
courts, no midnight watchmen and people bought and ate it since they
got a sugar high that was intoxicating
.
The stew was seasoned with family values, trust in God, patriotism,
a undieing loyalty to the Republican party and a vast new police state
security over the citizens of America.

Now we all have food poisoning to some degree and many people will
die, but not CEOs. Not the neocons. The rest of us will have some
pretty chilling bouts of vomiting in times to come. Yet while most
of us will suffer, some people who swallowed the most and will have
the most to lose will swear to thier last dieing gurgling gasp that
the stew was good. they will say it was those who critisized the
stew that made them sick.

Folks, its only stew. IT was made by people like me and you.
The cooks crafted its flavor and presentation for one reason. Profit.
The culture of corruption set a nice table but there were rats in the kitchen
and fleas on the rats.


The next stew that is now being prepared by Barack Obama will be for
mere survival. There will be new standards for cleanliness that
will be hard for some people to accept but we need to learn about the
new economic sanitation policy and enforce the rules.

Dinner may be meager and we will have to clean our plates but it
will be wholesome and home made. Be wary of any new stew in a colorful
can ythat might contain gotchulism, socialism or a new super capitalism.

We will bless what food there is no matter how little there is that
it be as pure and simple as possible.

Like my mom used to say, you should eat to live, not live to eat.

bon appetite, and make sure everyone washes their hands,
especially the billionaires.

Subject: RE: BS: economic food poisoning
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 02:19 PM

Man mono sodium glutamate is the worst migraine trigger for me.

I just have to tell the Chinese food place to leave it out.


thanks admin I am in your debt. I will be getting a donation to npr and mudcat shortly.

Subject: RE: BS: economic food poisoning
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 03:11 PM

Books about how our food MUST change to remain viable and sustainable.


Omnivore's dilemma


In defense of Food


food glorious food ...

Subject: RE: BS: economic food poisoning
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 24 Oct 08 - 06:16 PM

Michael Pollan was being interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR the other day (click) and said that his open letter on food (published earlier this month in the "Food Issue" of the New York Times Magazine) had been submitted to both campaigns. One (he did not specify which) responded with a request for him to compose a 500-word summary. The other did not respond.

He refused to summarize, saying that if it hadn't taken 8,000 words to explain it, he wouldn't have used that many. And, don't they have people on their staff that they pay to do that sort of thing for them?

Here's a start:

"... Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change. Unlike food, these are issues you did campaign on — but as you try to address them you will quickly discover that the way we currently grow, process and eat food in America goes to the heart of all three problems and will have to change if we hope to solve them. ..."

- "After cars, the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy — 19 percent."

- "The goal of ensuring the health of all Americans depends on getting those costs under control. There are several reasons health care has gotten so expensive, but one of the biggest, and perhaps most tractable, is the cost to the system of preventable chronic diseases. Four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to diet: heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes and cancer."

- "The impact of the American food system on the rest of the world will have implications for your foreign and trade policies as well. In the past several months more than 30 nations have experienced food riots, and so far one government has fallen. Should high grain prices persist and shortages develop, you can expect to see the pendulum shift decisively away from free trade, at least in food."

- "The deliberate contamination of our food presents another national-security threat. "

Goals:

"I. Resolarizing the American Farm ...

II. Reregionalizing the Food System ...

III. Rebuilding America's Food Culture ..."


Umm.... read the article!


~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: economic food poisoning
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 25 Oct 08 - 12:35 PM

This one's for you, Donuel:

Joe the Loan Officer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/business/25nocera.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Subject: RE: BS: economic food poisoning
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 12:24 PM

way Way WAY too much chili in this stew.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/3260052/Europe-on-the-brink-of-currency-crisis-meltdown.html