Comments on: Are We That Stupid? http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/05/03/are-we-that-stupid/ An urban insurgent's guide to real food for life Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:22:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed Bruske http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/05/03/are-we-that-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2813 Ed Bruske Mon, 04 May 2009 20:57:44 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=1212#comment-2813 TJ, we have laws in this country against bribing foreign officials. But I guess there are exceptions for charitable donations of pigs. I shudder to think what we would find if we truly lifted the lid on this thing and looked inside. TJ, we have laws in this country against bribing foreign officials. But I guess there are exceptions for charitable donations of pigs. I shudder to think what we would find if we truly lifted the lid on this thing and looked inside.

]]> By: Tj http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/05/03/are-we-that-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2811 Tj Mon, 04 May 2009 19:01:04 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=1212#comment-2811 An example of the relationshiop between big business and elected officials was reported this morning in the Jornada newspaper. Last year Granjas Carroll, an affiliate of Smithfield Farms, donated 500 feeder hogs to the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the state of Veracruz. The PRI then donated the hogs to poor farmers in the state to bolster its chances in upcoming elections. Corporate swine indeed. An example of the relationshiop between big business and elected officials was reported this morning in the Jornada newspaper. Last year Granjas Carroll, an affiliate of Smithfield Farms, donated 500 feeder hogs to the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the state of Veracruz. The PRI then donated the hogs to poor farmers in the state to bolster its chances in upcoming elections. Corporate swine indeed.

]]> By: Ed Bruske http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/05/03/are-we-that-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2809 Ed Bruske Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:50 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=1212#comment-2809 Sylvie, I agree with all of your points. For more than a century, corporate leaders have been urging workers to adopt a diet of cheap calories. If workers can get by with less, then they don't have to be paid as much. Consequently, Americans have been raised on the idea that food shouldn't cost too much. Now we are spending a fortune to eat the way our grandparents did--local foods grown on small farms. As the saying goes, don't eat anything your grandmother (or perhaps we should make that great-grandmother) wouldn't have served her family. Sylvie, I agree with all of your points. For more than a century, corporate leaders have been urging workers to adopt a diet of cheap calories. If workers can get by with less, then they don’t have to be paid as much. Consequently, Americans have been raised on the idea that food shouldn’t cost too much. Now we are spending a fortune to eat the way our grandparents did–local foods grown on small farms. As the saying goes, don’t eat anything your grandmother (or perhaps we should make that great-grandmother) wouldn’t have served her family.

]]> By: Sylvie http://www.theslowcook.com/2009/05/03/are-we-that-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 Sylvie Sun, 03 May 2009 15:56:12 +0000 http://www.theslowcook.com/?p=1212#comment-2808 and the people need to stop using low price as the the primary factor in buying food. Buy less food of a better quality is better for our individual health and societal health. We eat way too many calories and too many processed foods. We also need to re-educate ourselves on healthful eating, which includes understanding the numerous and insidious damages of the agro-industrial complex. We also need to re-learn that what "quality" food is - neither Purdue chicken nor Smithfield pork. and the people need to stop using low price as the the primary factor in buying food. Buy less food of a better quality is better for our individual health and societal health. We eat way too many calories and too many processed foods.

We also need to re-educate ourselves on healthful eating, which includes understanding the numerous and insidious damages of the agro-industrial complex. We also need to re-learn that what “quality” food is – neither Purdue chicken nor Smithfield pork.

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