tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8149442405815988000.post4813393240359383725..comments2023-09-24T09:31:47.775-04:00Comments on Edible Intelligence: Slow Food.Edible Intelligencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06407476500631094935noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8149442405815988000.post-73499715317407408172012-01-03T13:09:40.248-05:002012-01-03T13:09:40.248-05:00I'm off to read the article. This is my first ...I'm off to read the article. This is my first visit to your site but I'll be back. Have a wonderful day. Blessings...MaryMary Bergfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234678984137982414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8149442405815988000.post-38167569771972630432011-12-28T12:45:37.072-05:002011-12-28T12:45:37.072-05:00It's a somewhat elitist and narrow minded appr...It's a somewhat elitist and narrow minded approach to food you have. Farms have every incentive to run efficiently and to balance that efficiency with safety. Why would Tyson want its contract farms to run like crap? Why would running like crap be easier for a contract(or any other) farmer? Do you associate efficiency with crap?<br /><br />As far as types of food goes, there is no such thing as crap... unless you are talking about actual fecal material. Any food can be eaten as part of a balanced diet. I know people that ate nothing but potatoes all day, every day for 2 months and lowered all of their biometric numbers while losing weight. I know of someone that lost nearly 30 pounds eating just snack cakes. I also know of people that have lost weight eating nothing but fast food. It's not the individual food or the type of food that determines health, but the totality of the diet combined with that person's genetics.<br /><br />To seriously advocate to inflation of food prices solves nothing and hurts the people you would want to help. Production efficiency and the relative low cost of food has enabled us to have a country with cities, non-ag industries, infrastructure, wealth. Low cost food and production efficiency means that less labor is needed to farm, which freed up many Americans to pursue other interests.Edible Intelligencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06407476500631094935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8149442405815988000.post-26626017263330004412011-12-28T12:09:18.763-05:002011-12-28T12:09:18.763-05:00I'd agree with you on organic vegetables, rice...I'd agree with you on organic vegetables, rice, and other plant products. There really isn't a difference nutritionally. Some farms are more sustainable for the land, but a lot just barely do the minimum to meet certification.<br /><br />I'd have to disagree on meats though. Although a lot of farms do the minimum to meet organic standards for meat, that's still a whole lot better than farms that are contracted through Tyson and the other big players that make them run their farms like crap.<br /><br />The best is going to farms and picking up meat yourself, which you can do in most places in this country including Ohio. It just takes some effort..and a freezer..and buying a lot at a time.<br /><br />Even if you can't do that, trying to stick to things that have a high chance of being farmed right (e.g. Bison) is a huge plus. It may be more expensive, but I know personally I can stand to eat less anyway. <br /><br />And you're statements on the cost of food are way off. Before subsidized farming, people in the US spend about 1/3 of their income on food. Today we spend a fraction of that. That is what gives us the extra cash to buy electronics, car, vacations and other luxuries. <br /><br />It was initially a good thing, but it's kinda turned into a "for better or for worse" thing. We eat a lot in this country, more than our bodies need to. Much of our food is made from cheap reprocessed corn, starch and partially hydrogenated crap. People see good food (vegetables, fruits, etc) as being too expensive (whether it is or isn't), so we eat fast food crap. I don't think food prices going up are a bad thing. If we stopped subsidizing overproduction and people though carefully about what they spent on food because it becomes valuable again, maybe we'd eat healthier and better as a nation.Sumithttp://khanism.orgnoreply@blogger.com