Food

I just finished the book Food, INC which has different essays from organic/cruelty free livestock advocates. I've read books like this before- like Fast Food Nation and Omnivore's Dilemma. Somehow the one I just read has persuaded me the most to start eating organic/humanely raised. I guess it also helps that I make a good living wage too. Pamela Anderson is also convincing if you want to look up her PETA crap on youtube about KFC. The book had stuff in there about the rights of farm-workers, how illegal immigrants come here and pick stuff for pennies and then die for us so we can uphold our over-eating lifestyles. So think of the Mexicans at least and buy organic, at least they won't be inhaling poison all day when they pick your strawberries. Then I started thinking about GMOs (look at this article from CNN today http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/09/20/genetically-modified-salmon/?hpt=C1 about giant salmon they might let us start eating.) I would have no problem with GMOs if a corporation did not control them.... like if anybody could have the rights to these fancy new fish genes then it'd be okay. That's how evolution works... desirable traits get passed on and the crappy ones die out. We're just playing God and I'm okay with that... as long as there is equal access and if the trait doesn't hurt the animal- like if we altered chicken genes to have giant boobs and no beaks and they couldn't walk around, that'd be just mean. If scientists want to make crazy food they had better start in a petri dish and just somehow grow that into a chicken cutlet, so that it was never a suffering animal.

I have a lot of other thoughts about food but I should probably read more so I don't sound too stupid. I just bought organic free-range eggs and they were $4 a dozen. That sounds crazy but we have to like think about our health and our future and how other countries spend like 50% of their income on food.