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| A completely homemade, omnivorous pizza |
- Thank you (with sincerity) for kicking me more towards eating local, grass-fed meat AND
- Thank you (with sarcasm) for freaking me out about the poor state of our industrialized food system AND
- Thank you (with more sarcasm) for making me feel like I’d now better watch that documentary, Food, Inc. AND
- Thank you (this time refreshingly reverting back to sincerity) for therefore giving me an idea for the last documentary I need to watch for my IntelliQuest.
Which will probably lead me to
- Thanking
you (with even more sarcasm) for thoroughly
depressing me.
The book, at least, wasn’t preachy or
– surprisingly – discouraging. I suppose I’ve always known, deep
down, the terribleness of All Things Bought At The Grocery Store.
Reading the book, therefore, served less to demoralize me and more
to enlighten me as to why American Food Sucks. Now I know
that it sucks because of corn.
Yes. Corn is the Devil. Who knew
those tasty niblets – one of the few things Americans eat that is
actually native to North America – is Pure Evil incarnate?
It’s in everything, which
might not be so bad, except the version that’s in everything is
genetically modified and therefore scary. Plus the subsidies that
are provided for its growth are causing the downfall of our economic
system and its cheap availability to feed lots is responsible for the
ill-treatment and unnatural lives of the animals we consume.
And don’t think you’re off the
hook, Miss “I Only Eat Organic”. Just because your corn isn’t
fertilized with chemicals doesn’t mean it’s not still leading us
to Armageddon.
And now that I’ve left you with a lot
of vague tidbits and no real answers, I’m off to eat me some Fritos.
If you want an actual, intelligent treatise on the whole Corn
= Devil topic, as well as other ways we can eat in this country, you’ll
just have to read the book. All 450 pages of it. Like I did.
Because I had to.
Damn IntelliQuest; why aren't you making me feel smarter?
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