[jobim]

In what way is it fraudulent?

[b4me]

wonder what if anything the book says about produce, is what’s labeled USA really mexican or south american?

Does organic really mean anything anymore?

Gotta move back to where I can have a garden again :)

[GraceG]

I don’t eat over 90% of that fancy pants food they mention in the article anyways, so I could care less.

[Vision Thing]

Spam is no scam.

[lizma2]

Had Kobe beef in Japan. OMG.

Started to pay attention to our food supply when I noticed so much of our tilapia comes from China. (Net says Chile’s fish is just as bad.)

Learned much of olive oil is a scam. Do some googling before you buy.

Organic may not really be organic. They can still cover it with pesticides.

[Yaelle]

Wow, this is worse than I even knew.

[Sheapdog]

The deal as I’ve always understood is to basically eat what your great grandparents ate; stay out of the middle aisles of any supermarket and all processed foods as much as possible. Many people don’t do this and eat a diet of crap 90 percent of the time and we are what we eat in a sense. Pretty simple. And don’t eat after 9:00pm if you want to be thin- hard to do sometimes.

[Olog-hai]

Funny they mention “escolar” being substituted for tuna in sushi, but won’t say which fish they mean; the name “escolar” can be applied to at least eight different species of fish, from the so-called “butterfish” to the snake mackerel.

[lefty-lie-spy]

I’m going out for sushi right. It’s all good here.

[4Liberty]

Bump

[firebrand]

Good article. I’m considering buying the book.

Lobster: Even the vaunted Zabar’s got caught putting non-lobster in their lobster salad several years ago.

Olive oil: I actually prefer puro. It’s what we used when I was a kid, so it tastes right to me. Virgin olive oil has no taste. It’s like grade A maple syrup. Give me the one with the impurities.

Beef: It has become unchewable. I’ve posted about this before. Since then, I have tried more expensive restaurants near me and it is all the same, except for one French place in my neighborhood that I will not name for fear of never getting a table ever again. I suspect everyone is using the less expensive Chinese beef.

I remember the fuss about “modified cornstarch” in baby food years ago. Turns out “modified” means “not digestible,” and that they do so that when Baby is fed right out of the jar, the baby’s saliva does not begin digesting the food in the jar and throwing it off.

And there was another brouhaha about a brand of bread having wood pulp in it.

Food has changed. It has gone down in quality across the board. I’m sure there are many more reasons than are cited in this article. People who have lived in France say that we can never really simulate French cooking here because the ingredients are the key and the ingredients here are greatly inferior.

[Vaquero]

I don’t eat out much. Beside not trusting the sanitary habits of the preparer, I have food allergies and you don’t know what herbs and spices they use in a particular restaurant. ( I worked in a West Hampton restaurant for 2 summers in college......whatever you do don’t send food back. If you must... be real polite about it)
I only order steak and ask that they put only salt and pepper on it and plain salad With oil and vinegar on the side.

[kalee]

I saw video on YouTube about steak sold in restaurants. The meat is processed and held together with what they called meat glue, then it is formed into the steaks. We went out the other night to a popular chain and I ordered a steak. When I cut into it wondered if it was a meat glue product because the grain was much different from the steaks we get from the guy we buy 1/2 a cow from.

[Alas Babylon!]

Here's my real food I harvested just yesterday morning.

Eating some fresh tomatoes with homemade goat cheese this morning...

[2nd amendment mama]

Bookmark

[BobL]

I’m with them, I’ve pretty much given up on eating.

Much healthier now...

[deadrock]

bfl

[MarkL]

Just a bit of hyperbole there huh?

While TPN is great while you’re NPO (medical TLAs - isn’t that cool? There’s a three letter acronym for three level acronyms - NPO translates to “nothing by mouth,” and TPN is “total parenteral nutrition,” or in other words, IV feeding.

While it saved my life while I was completely bed-ridden and NPO for more than a month, I wouldn’t recommend it.

Mark

[eartick]

Eat my own beef

My own chicken

My own vegetables.

Catch my own fish

Make my own bacon and sausage

Do not go to these over priced, largest waste of food and the biggest waste of my money soup kitchens until dragged kicking and screaming by my wife into one.

AND that is not very dang often

[Dr. Sivana]

the FDA said its testing discovered that some dairy products labeled “100% Parmesan” contained polymers and wood pulp.

Oh good grief, the wood pulp (sometimes labeled as cellulose) is usually listed on the ingredients list. It is NOT being added to save money on cheese. It is added to keep the cheese from clumping. Shall I turn in my friends who put rice in the salt shakers?! Get whole Parmesan and grate it yourself or get the store brand at the Italian delicatessen if you get worked up about it.

Scare article for the most part.