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  • Lobster in Michigan

    As a recent transplant from the relatively lobster-poor state of Michigan to a coastal town in Connecticut, I have certainly been eating more lobster recently. But that is not strictly due to availability: to the contrary, Meijer's Thrifty Acres always has lobster, except for a few days after New Year's Eve. Even the smallish Meijer in ...
    Posted to Moneybox by jballou on August 19, 2008

  • Central Asian Cuisine

    Just thought I would point out that tofu+animal fat is quite common in Chinese cuisine. Only in the west is tofu primarily thought of as a substitute for meat, as opposed to a complement to it.
    Posted to Food by coanders on August 6, 2008

  • Which is worse?

    Which is worse: malnourishment, starvation, and suicide, or obesity? The author of ''In the Test Fields'' writes in detail about the devestating problems that small farmers face and their inability to deliver food to the population. If the government allows the market to work, large corporations will take over farms, managing them efficiently ...
    Posted to Dispatches by graf.shepherd on August 6, 2008

  • Zoning is NOT BANNING

    William Saletan's article on the “banning of fast food in poor neighborhoods'' decrys the ordinance passed by the city of Los Angeles City prohibiting construction of new fast-food restaurants in a low-income area, Saletan frames the issue as one regarding the state’s right to govern the eating habits of poor people. Well, it seems silly to point ...
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 5, 2008

  • Re: it was YOU that FRAMED the issue

    Yeech: full of typos, that last. And not clear at all. Anyway: I'm guessing we've wrung this one dry.
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 4, 2008

  • Re: can we NOT treat you in the ER?

    I hear you about the ER. But I think the issue revolves, in this case, around what sorts of things constitute paternal laws (or nanny state regulation) and what sorts of things need to be regulated for the general good. We have all sorts of laws that restrict marketing. Labeling laws are a good example. We should be allowed to know what we ...
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 4, 2008

  • Re: Choose Real Food

    Actually high fructose corn syrup metabolizes differently than sugar. It metabolizes far less efficiently and is far more fattening than cane sugar. It does more harm more quickly than cane sugar. What's more it's in nearly every prorcessed food you eat: including most fast food. People's health would improve greatly w/out it.
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 4, 2008

  • Re: Choose Real Food

    It's flat out dense to keep framing the issue as a matter of anyone's saying you have ''no choice'' -- some people are concerned that the choices be between a real food and a real food and NOT a slow poison and a fat pill. No one's taking choice away: they are regulating and zoning the marketing of edible items.
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 4, 2008

  • Re: Choose Real Food

    For more on high fructose corn syrup, check out my article on DietMachine at http://dietmachine.blogspot.com/2007/11/a-sugar-by-any-other-name-would-taste.html Some ''foods'' folks are not legitimate ''choices''. They are being sold to you as choices and they are accepted as ''food'' because they don't kill you outright. But neither does ...
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 4, 2008

  • Re: Choose Real Food

    What I'm claiming is indeed radical: I'm claiming that some ''foods'' are actually not food at all. You shouldn't have a choice to market things as food if they are in fact mostly fat and high fructose corn syrup and offer no nutruitious benefit at all.Regulating or banning fast food is not ''banning meat'' because fast food burgers are not meat. ...
    Posted to Human Nature by catweaver on August 4, 2008
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