Are you in New York on May 23rd and are you concerned about the future of our food? Join the discussion, participate and share Foodopoly with everyone who eats!
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Thank you Boycott
A little App with lots of power. With Boycott, we can now trace the brands (plus its subsidiary) of every product available in the U.S market. If the product is from a food industry dictator, you’ll when you scan it. You can decide to buy the product or not. We’ll no longer accept blindly and raise revenue for companies that aren’t protecting our health. This App might be our first step towards food monopoly.
Outbreak & Contagion
Brought to you by us, thanks to our self-damaging skills (talking about the environment of course). There will be no Matt Damon or Dustin Hoffman at the end, only a significantly diminished World Population. Will Darwin play with our fate again like he did after the Black Plague and restore the world’s population? Who knows… Perhaps, we’ll learn to coexist with the Zombies we created.
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Your Milk Straight from a Lab
You won’t see the “Franken-ingredient” listed on the label, but are you surprised? I’m not. Some food manufacturer’s keep opposing to list all the ingredients they used on the labels. What are they afraid of? To make things worse, some milk brands are adding artificial sweeteners to their product to make it sweeter and tastier. I guess they assumed we all like that delicious metallic aftertaste of aspartame and sucralose. Oh, how I miss the real sweet taste of cow’s milk.
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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution Day
May 17th is the day! Jamie Oliver, Food vs. Evil and all Food Activists around the world will be celebrating FOOD in London. Join the Revolution, and safe our farms! In addition, learn about food and educate others about what we eat.
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What Killed the Bees?
Friends, we believe that we must do something before it’s too late. Thousands of bees died, and there’s no explanation for it. Si las abejas desaparecen, las flores no van a ser polinizadas haciendo que todo quede fuera de balance. If this happens, we can say goodbye to many fruits and vegetables. Read the complete report here, and learn about what happened to those bees. We need bees for our children’s generation; let’s pay attention because we can’t be responsible for their disappearance.
My Vote Goes to Mother Earth
Sometimes it feels like we are fighting mother earth we are chemicals, pollution and unnatural ingredients. They want to own all the seeds the farmers use to plant crops year after year. Some of those seeds have been in the family of farmers for generations. Now they have to buy them and return them after the crop if fully grown. Since when plating became a private business?
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The Local Solution
The food system has strayed very far from its traditional farming roots and gone into a dark place. Almost everything has become processed, and a handful of corporations control our entire food system from the seeds to what’s on our plate. The names of the chemicals in the foods we eat today seem out of a science fiction novel. If this continues, only a few privileged people will afford the price of good quality-natural foods. For the rest of us, the future is uncertain unless we start caring now. The only way to survive is to go local and support your local farmers.
I’m Cooking & Living!
Just when you thought you have heard everything about what Michael Pollan had to say about the sad state of our food industry, he surprises us again. Now he is simply saying: “start cooking or die.” You know that when you eat out, you have very little control of what you’re actually eating. Follow Michael’s advice and live a long, healthy life.
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If You Want Food to Love You…
Eat natural and healthy food, your face and body will thank you for it!
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‘Replicant’ Tomatoes
Can we predict what tomatoes will taste like in the future? Imagine The Sci -Fi favorite “Blade Runner’s” cool main character, Deckard (Harrison Ford) sharing a cup of spicy “replicant tomato ramen” with his girlfriend. Interesting…. Especially if you’re hungry. If we keep mass producing our food, hiring illegal cheap labor, requiring minimum control and lowering quality standards, we’ll answer the taste question and get into replicant mode sooner than later.
Do you remember how difficult it was to trace a replicant? I mean, they appeared human, they talked and experienced human like feelings but they weren’t people. Did we have the right to eliminate them? We created them with superhuman strength, we shipped them to other colony worlds to do our dirty jobs, but we made sure they lived only for 4 years. Think tomatoes. Red, round, looks like a tomato, sort of taste like a tomato but what we find in American supermarkets today, just like the replicants, is a tomato look-alike, but not a tomato. The big difference is that our tomatoes are not going to be eliminated in 4 years, no, they are here to stay. What’s the problem with that?
Tomatoes are a warm season vegetable, but they can be found all year long in American supermarkets. How come? We grow tomatoes in many countries and artificial greenhouses, pick them green, ripen them with ethylene gas, and ship them hundreds of miles throughout the country. This process of early picking, transporting and artificially ripening results in the mealy tasteless tomatoes we eat today. They are not even that fresh! Those tomatoes are at least 4 days old before by the time they arrive to our supermarkets. Sure, tomatoes do produce ethylene gas naturally and its safe for human consumption (so they say), we know that. But we don’t know how much of the gas is sprayed daily on each tomato and if those quantities are safe for us. Ethylene gas is also known as the “death” or “ripening hormone” appetizing, right?
Tomatoes are sprayed at the producer’s factories and are continually being sprayed at the supermarkets. Yes, you’ve seen the guy dressed all in white spraying “water” on the vegetables at the produce section. Under those bright lamps, the varieties of greens, reds, purples, and oranges look so vibrant that it transports you to a —farmers market? You can almost feel the clean breeze in your face, but wait, I think it might be coming from the artificial fans above you. The water + ethylene gas coating on the vegetables makes them look fresh and natural, but in reality, there is nothing natural about that produce section. Eat a local farm grown tomato and you’ll taste the difference immediately.
So, should we arm ourselves and create a “Blade Runner” squad and capture all those replicant tomatoes? They shouldn’t have the right to exist because they are fake too. The local, seasoned, full grown tomatoes don’t want them around. Those ready-available all-year-long tomatoes are preventing us from buying from our local farmers.
Let’s put those manufactured tomatoes under a lie detector, shall we? At least we knew what the end for the Andys in “Blade Runner” was going to be… Complete annihilation. But what about their tomatoes counterparts? Well, that’s a bit more complicated. According to men the replicants in Blade Runner were hurting people and that was the reason they had to be eliminated. We don’t know yet about the long term effects caused by consuming our sprayed tomatoes, but they could end up hurting us as well.
Scientist today are playing with our food in labs the same way the genetic designer J. F. Sebastian was playing with his “toys.” We don’t know yet what consequences their games are going to bring us. The replicants ended up destroying their creator, would that be our fate as well? Would all our manufactured foods killed us all at the end? Let’s don’t forget that we were already attacked by “Killer Tomatoes” Ha! But that’s another story.
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Why we care?
Food Regulations, Food Recalls, Organic Food, Sustainable Farming, Industrialized Foods, GMOs, Alternate Food Systems, Mass Production, Farm Land, Fast Food, Obesity, Bio-dynamics, Clones, Food Poising, Genetic Engineering, Water. Death.
Fade to black. Are you still there? These words may sound like they belong in a Science Fiction script, but they are our reality. These are some of the words in the headlines we often read concerning many food systems in the world today.
You certainly know that the squeaky wheel, it’s the one that gets the most grease, right? Join me and let’s help change what we eat, one blog post at the time. Es hora de cambiar todo porque es nuestro futuro y el de nuestros hijos.
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