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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Canada
6556 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2003 :  11:19:34  Show Profile
Floop has just informed me that he doesn't like to start threads for just any reason.....
Anyways, this book has come up a few times in the forum and so we decided to dedicate a thread to it (I haven't read it yet so I got nothin)

Anyone?

mkingicus
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USA
68 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2003 :  11:53:44  Show Profile
Is that the book about the horrors of the fast food and meat packing industries? Much like "The Jungle" only in recent, non-story form. If I am correct on what book you refer to, I have read it and cannot believe that I continue to eat fast food (so quick, so tasty, so much money to be made). The things that still go on in these places are disgusting. People being killed in the machines, large amounts of confined animals being fed the leftovers of their own kind. The fact that countless animals are slaughter everyday in the most merciless manners so that we, the superior ones, can enjoy our over abundance of cholestorol(sp?) proves that it's all coming back to us in the form of clogged arteries. Hooray for money, though.

(geez, I hope I'm talking about the right book)

M King
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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *

Ireland
1439 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2003 :  12:27:10  Show Profile
i am reading it at the moment. it is excellent - but almost guaranteed to put you off fast food.

Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?....
- David Brent
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ingersoll
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USA
85 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2003 :  14:43:34  Show Profile
i read it when it first came out. i didnt really like it.

and i still eat fast food, even though i know i shouldnt. but, like oscar wilde said, "i can resist anything but temptation".
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =

Mexico
15297 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2003 :  15:30:58  Show Profile
i read it.. it's pretty dreary, but worth reading ..

i don't know if it will stop you from ever eating it again, but it should, if you read it.
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos

Canada
4496 Posts

Posted - 08/06/2003 :  20:53:19  Show Profile  Visit Dave Noisy's Homepage
It's not only 'fast' food tho...
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Atheist4Catholics
= Cult of Ray =

USA
925 Posts

Posted - 08/07/2003 :  07:11:03  Show Profile  Visit Atheist4Catholics's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by bazza

i am reading it at the moment. it is excellent - but almost guaranteed to put you off fast food.




You mean the "food" isn't enough to put you off?

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bazza
* Dog in the Sand *

Ireland
1439 Posts

Posted - 08/07/2003 :  07:35:32  Show Profile
good point.

Is your work done? Are all pigs fed, watered and ready to fly?....
- David Brent
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blackpurse
= Cult of Ray =

USA
299 Posts

Posted - 08/07/2003 :  09:34:23  Show Profile
I'm in the middle of it myself, not shocked, it's just confirming many of my suspicions and just making me more paranoid about the subversity of it all. Well researched and written, writer is up front about his slant. Haven't eaten any FF since I started reading it. I like that the author comes at this from all angels.

I'm also reading "Fat Land" -- how Americans got to be the fattest people in the world. (It was a two-fer selction with FFN in the QPB book club.....) Also worth reading - discusses the Reagan administration's role, especially that foul Sec of the Interior (the one that alwasy made racist jokes) whose name escapes me right now, and how the influenced our snacking and eating habits... very interesting.

"Sacred cows make the best burgers!"
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BrendanT
= Cult of Ray =

Canada
907 Posts

Posted - 08/07/2003 :  10:12:38  Show Profile
I have always wondered how many fat industrialized people might become vegetarians if they had to catch, kill and cook their own meat.
As well as how many would die of starvation if the world was rid of fast food joints or even restaurants and left these poor defenceless people to actually cook for themselves every time they needed to eat?

I am now very proficient at cooking a meal for one to four people without breaking stride. It actually tastes good (well to me) and to the few who have passes along comments. It is a skill that each individual has and should utilize. Cook for yourself.

I may even begin to grow my own food. Baby-steps for now. I don't want to become too self-sufficient.

Strummer-man
I had me a vision!

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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos

Canada
4496 Posts

Posted - 08/08/2003 :  12:18:31  Show Profile  Visit Dave Noisy's Homepage
Yeah, i grew my first garden this year...pretty neat. Gotta figure out what crops are the most productive tho, my plot is pretty small. No peas next year!
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blackpurse
= Cult of Ray =

USA
299 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2003 :  08:44:03  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Dave Noisy

Yeah, i grew my first garden this year...pretty neat. Gotta figure out what crops are the most productive tho, my plot is pretty small. No peas next year!



PEas are a pain because you have to shuck them and one row of 'em gets you about 1 serving. However, if you grow flat peas for stir fries and such, they're pretty productive.

OK< based on my limited experience on my postage stamp lot, here's my successes and failures:

Tomatoes! Easy to grow, plentiful, etc. Grows everywhere. Thousands of varieties. I have fond memories of being a kid, going out the the garden with the salt shaker, and pulling them off the vine and eating them like they were apples, still warm from the sun.

Lettuce and Spinach. Easy to grow and prolific, but when it comes up, you have to eat it fast, because it bolts and gets bitter, especially in the hot weather. Plant early for early summer harverst, then plant again in July for September harvest -- when it's not so hot, the yummy season is extended.

Corn is a bitch for a small plot. Avoid.

Eggplant, peppers, broccoli -- easy and there's nothing like fresh broccoli. It's won my kid over to broccoli. Snap it off and it's atually JUICY!

HErbs -- easy easy easy! If you plant in containers bring 'em in for the winter and have fresh basil, oregano, chives, rosemary, thyme for all your cooking. You won't go back to dried, ever. You can put them in a garden, but don't plant mint or oregano if you don't LOVE them. They are weeds. They will take over. I know this. (Fortunately I love mint and oregano).

GReen Beans -- easy. The classic "teach a kid to garden" plant because they are so fool proof. Only issue -- pick 'em early. Otherwise, the beans inside will get too big and hard, you won't be able to cook them enough, and you will eat them and have painful gas pains for days.



"Sacred cows make the best burgers!"
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Canada
6556 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2003 :  08:47:42  Show Profile
Tomatoes aren't so easy here, such a short growing season and all. but they are good to hide "oregano" plants between them.
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Dave Noisy
Minister of Chaos

Canada
4496 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2003 :  11:33:51  Show Profile  Visit Dave Noisy's Homepage
Yeah, my tomatoes are tiny..all my friends' plants are HUGE!

Broccoli, good for small spaces?? Cool..

I'm gonna plant kale where the peas were, get 'em up for the winter..they grow fine here in the winter. =)
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IntoTheWhite
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USA
17 Posts

Posted - 08/13/2003 :  23:58:48  Show Profile
I checked this book out from the library, started reading it, and LOST it!! I can't believe it. I've never done something like that before.

Anyway, I'm not shocked by anything in there either. I've been trying to ween myself off fast food for a while and I thought maybe that would give me that last little push I needed. Now if only I hadn't lost the book! I'd like to read the rest of it.

And there ain't no day...
And there ain't no night...
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blackpurse
= Cult of Ray =

USA
299 Posts

Posted - 08/14/2003 :  05:21:51  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by IntoTheWhite

I checked this book out from the library, started reading it, and LOST it!! I can't believe it. I've never done something like that before.

Anyway, I'm not shocked by anything in there either. I've been trying to ween myself off fast food for a while and I thought maybe that would give me that last little push I needed. Now if only I hadn't lost the book! I'd like to read the rest of it.

And there ain't no day...
And there ain't no night...


It's only plus/minus $10 in paperback. The author deserves the royalties. Buy it.



"Sacred cows make the best burgers!"
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