Comments on: Real Food Hits The New York Times

By: Karen Weber

Karen Weber — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:47:05 +0000

Yes, KingCorn is a need to watch documentary. Corn is never going anywhere . . . what politician is going to lead the charge starting in Iowa – home of the very first primary ever politcal season. None with any future ambition and I’m afraid not may of them exist. Ron Paul, maybe?

But even if they stopped it with corn – biotech would come up with something else we need to subsidize and that THAT ingredient would become prevalent in almost everything we consume.

The real problem is of one of education: most people I’ve spoken to on this have no idea about GMO, the types of amounts of crap used on crops,etc.

Their general feeling: if all of these were so bed, we would know, doctors would no, there would be reports on Television about it.

Yeah, we’d know just like we knew about Wall Street playing Russian Roulette with our money, just like we knew in the 40s that smoking was bad for us, just like we knew Enron was a great company to be invested it. Most often folks, we don’t know until it is too late and for many people that comes with they themselves get ill and can’t take it anymore.

I gave up GMO foods 5 months ago and every week I feel a little bit better (had pancreatitis at 37)

By: KristenM

KristenM — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:46:56 +0000

Jenny — AMEN!

KristenM

By: Nourished Kitchen

Nourished Kitchen — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:10:01 +0000

Awesome coverage! It is a food revolution. It’s wild that what you put into your mouth has become such a political statement. I’m so thankful that people are reconnecting with traditional food and learning to value small vs. large and local vs. corporate. Three cheers for fighting the good fight!

Nourished Kitchen

By: KristenM

KristenM — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:49:11 +0000

Phil & KAthy — I know you’re both right. The silver lining seems to be that part of the Real Food Revolution is diversified, more local food distribution networks. So long as we keep “voting with our forks” and building up those more local economies, we’ll have a lot more accountability built into our system.

By: KAthy

KAthy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:19:37 +0000

I hope that the people growing, buying and eating the real food will stay strong/cohesive enough to keep the movement as their own if and when it all goes mainstream. I know that sounds selfish but mainstream seems to mess things up in the name of politics and money.

By: Phil Martin

Phil Martin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:28:20 +0000

I think its great going mainstream, yet I feel there will be compromise in what real food really is. Most of the time there is always compromise when something goes ‘mainstream’.

This is my first time posting, so let me introduce myself. I’m Phil and I am a chef. I work at a Bible institute in upstate New York. I went to a community college in Canada and studied culinary arts. It was there that I learned to love real food. Unfortunately, work requires being under budget, labor is low, and food distributors do not deliver local stuff. On top of that the health department has certain requirements for institutions. Thus the challenges of trying to go local.

Thanks for all the info I have received from this blog and others like it. I have bought ‘Nourishing Traditions’ and will be slowly implementing that into my own life and little by little into my job.

By: KristenM

KristenM — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:16:15 +0000

Michelle — That’s a good question. I’m really not sure how to answer. Just look at how much has changed in our lifetimes thus far. I predict we’re on the upswing.

Lee — Thanks! I just read an article today talking about how we could turn over 50% of the corn and soy fields in the U.S. to permacultured grasslands and raise THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT of cattle we now raise in CAFOs on that grass. Not only would it be cheaper, it’d produce significantly healthier meat AND be more environmentally sustainable.

It’s worth reading: http://bit.ly/rbUK

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:11:57 +0000

Great post. I just watched the movie “King Corn” and was struck by the same line of reasoning from the corn industry – the idea that if they didn’t produce more corn feed meat, Americans would starve. “That organic stuff might be okay for you rich folks,” they suggest. Ugh! It’s fantastic to see more of Alice Waters and Michael Pollan in our daily lives! I’m really enjoying your blog. Great work.

Lee

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:53:50 +0000

Hooray! Now let me ask you a question. How much progress do you realistically expect to see, say, in our lifetime? It is heart warming to see this sort of things for sure…

Michelle

By: KristenM

KristenM — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:32:22 +0000

Local Nourishment — What’s truly silly about such choices is that they’re not at all REAL. They’re just a hypothetical exercise. But, yes, I’m with you…

Lori — Let me know what you think of the article. Really, it covered so many different bits of this and that within the Real Food Revolution that I was impressed.