We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.
Steve Elbert
Reading today’s local paper came across the Anti-Agribusiness food article. From frankenfood to fecal soup, breakfast was not the same.
Today is the day when we go out of our way to consume creepy eats – eyeball appetizers, bug-encrusted cupcakes and kitty litter cake. Why not?
But for people like me – science majors who spend too much time reading lengthy tomes about the unappetizing realities of modern food and farming – we don't need Halloween to cause our dinner to give us nightmares. All someone like me needs to do is take a stroll through a brightly lit grocery store. Here, the horrors of our industrial food system assault me on every aisle.
Run from the factory-farmed meat! Watch out for the pesticide-dipped fruit! Duck to avoid the chemical-filled snack foods!
Care for your own Halloween food scare? Then let me take you on a haunting tour of the shadowy underbelly of the food world, where culinary abominations lurk under familiar logos and beneath safety-sealed packages.
Just be warned, you could end up like me: Skeptical and overly cautious of all foods that don't come from a farmer or food producer that you know personally. Because you never know when that tempting foodie treat will turn out to be a sneaky agribusiness trick.
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
Annita Manning
Read the rest: Grim Reapings from Industrial Food
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you!
Tommy Smothers
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