From today’s news: Kentucky Fried Chicken to remove trans-fats from food. Don’t got rushing out to buy your fried chicken. This is still a deep-fried, high fat, high calorie product. So KFC will stop frying their foods in hydrogenated soybean oil, sure it may be a better oil (maybe) but the nutritional profile of the [...]
The Dilemma of what to give “Trick or Treaters”… Every year I struggle with what to give to the costumed kids that show up at my doorstep on Halloween. Will it be the high fructose corn syrup and artificially colored confections that will have them bouncing off the walls and create the ADD/ADHD effect? I [...]
Viruses intentionally added to our with food. — Bacteriophage (bacteria eater)!! Welcome to the new world of poor food management! There is yet another “technological advance” to clean up of our food-borne illness problems. A company called “Intralytix” has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of six bacteria-killing [...]
A recent Sierra Club posting, “E. coli. It’s what’s for dinner?” has an excellent article on factory farming. http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/ This brings us back to the topic of how E. coli has gotten into our spinach, lettuce and who knows what will be next. This is a problem of a contaminated irrigation water and much more. [...]
Back to the topic of corn and why we’re force feeding cattle corn… Corn is a heavily subsidized crop, we have a huge surplus of corn yet, somehow, our farmers are trapped into growing more and becoming more efficient at producing more on less land. Yet the farmers are not getting richer by doing this. [...]
It seems that locally grown (Washington) spinach is now available in some restaurants and stores. The waitperson at the last restaurant I was at, said that at least every other order had spinach in it. It’s funny how absence makes the heart grow fonder. Who knew it could happen with spinach. There’s still lots of [...]
