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As those who have read my blog (and reported me for improper usage of slang for fecal material...thanks, love you, too) I am an extremely dramatic and passionate person. I take the tainting of our food sources seriously and yes, I may get carried away, but there's a message in there. Even though it got someone's knickers in a knot, at least it tells me someone is out there reading and maybe the message is getting out there. The message is simple, our government that claims to protect us and all those in bed with the politicians (medical service providers, industrial conglomerates, pharmaceutical industry, etc) don't care about us and only care about their bottom line. They're more than happy to stomp on the little guys and step on the backs of our American farmers with spiked shoes. It angers me, it completely and utterly infuriates me. Who suffers? We do. Terribly. One of my pet peeves is abuse of CORN! After reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, I had a clearer understand of just how sick our food supply really is, I knew it was bad, but I couldn't wrap my head completely around just how saturated we were in corn. Don't get me wrong, I adore a lovely ear of fresh corn on the cob with melting butter, salt and pepper where the juices run down my arm. But I really don't want it in my beef or sprayed on my fruit. I hate the fact that it's so difficult to go to the grocery store and buy something without HFCS. It drives me nuts that people are so far removed from their food. They can barely remember that carrots don't come in 2 inch perfect little finger stubs or that potatoes don't grow in a cardboard box. It's saddens me to know that many children have never seen a fresh tomato on the vine and had the heavenly opportunity to snap it off the vine and take a nice, big, juicy bite out of the sweet red globe. Wouldn't they be surprised!? Makes my tummy rumble and my mouth water just thinking about it. hehe I'm very excited about a documentary that is out and will only be shown in very very few theaters. Eventually it will be released on DVD which I will most certainly purchase...perhaps many copies to give as gifts, depending on whether or not it has a strong enough impact to cut through the common passivity of so many. KING CORN check out the website. There's a trailer for the documentary, a blog you can watch, a newsletter you can subscribe to and a lot of information that can help give us the tools to stop this outrage. This is from their press kit..just one paragraph of the "film summary": "Almost everything Americans eat contains corn: high fructose corn syrup, corn-fed meat, and corn-based processed foods are the staples of the modern diet. Ready for an adventure and alarmed by signs of their generation’s bulging waistlines, college friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis know where to go to investigate. Eighty years ago, Ian and Curt’s great-grandfathers lived just a few miles apart, in the same rural county in northern Oh...and if anyone has a issue with the content of my posts....do the decent thing and contact ME, I'm a reasonable person who would never intentionally or flagrantly disregard this community's standards of conduct, I can and will make the necessary adjustments if it's clear that I made an error (which it was and I corrected it). I'm human and can make mistakes when I get caught up in a tirade...but it really chaps my hide when someone doesn't have the backbone to contact me directly, expecting someone else to do it for them. Thank you. :-) |
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