I read this article on the NY times website today while I was having my salad for lunch ... it's an interesting set of thoughts about how the vegetable industry (well the food industry generally, I suppose) is being industrialised, and how this industrialisation impacts on and creates certain problems. Problems that the author contends were actually solutions in "the old days".
As someone that likes the fact that Kristi buys us organic stuff from the local(ish) market (even if I am too lazy to get out of bed in the morning to join her!!), this adds another dimension to what makes "good" food ...
Thoughts?
D.
Monday, October 16, 2006
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There are two lessons to be learnt from this article.
1. Don't eat spinach. You're not popeye, it won't make you big and strong
2. Don't eat maccas or 'American hamburgers'
Most bacteria (except for the ones that tolerate high temperatures - thermophiles) will be killed in the normal cooking process. I'm not saying cook everything, but it helps. I didn't think E.coli lived on spinach, but i guess it's everywhere. It's living in you and me.
I agree organic veggies are better. If they weren't so expensive i think we'd all buy them. I don't even have a local fruit and veg place near my house. Randall and I are trying to implement a Friday night markets reigm, which i think will be good. But going on that article, who knows if it will be as fresh as we think it should be. I went to buy brocollini at the markets last week, to find it was still partially frozen.
Food for thought.
Agree ... it's about trying to find not only organic, but also somewhere you can talk to the person that grew the stuff???
I'm hoping that we can find a good market garden in NY ... apparently they're all over the place?? (Which seems cool, but hard to believe!!?)
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