Monkey Monday: so much mystery meat! 29 September 2008 8:48 am
Posted by Tracy in : food safety, consumerism, food snobbery, ingredients, mystery meat, meat, monkeys, news, health, advice, politics, Marion Nestle , add a commentSeriously, kids, was it International “Make Tracy Happy to Avoid Mystery Meat” Week and nobody told me? I just kept finding more and more news stories and blog posts to that effect. Also, on a metaphorical level, the TracyFood comment spam just kept pouring in — I broke 16,000 17,000 deleted comments over the weekend (number edited on Sunday morning after I started the post on Friday night). Woo? But seriously, all the scary meat news you can read:
22 September: Sucks to be a factory-farmed pig.
Last Monday, U.S. Food Policy alerted me to a news report about pig abuse at factory farms. The official Associated Press news piece is here, along with a video which I cannot bring myself to watch. You can click through to the full piece without being forced to watch the video, but (more…)
Monkey Monday: food irradiation, breakfast cereal, and more! 8 September 2008 1:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, breakfast, food safety, good news, New York, random, monkeys, politics, Marion Nestle, books, school, news, milk, restaurants , add a commentUm, not necessarily in that order. Breakfast first, right? Right. Here goes. I had cereal for breakfast for the first time in a very long time today. Not oatmeal (it’s still way too hot for that), Tracy granola with yogurt, like I love, but something more in the muesli genre (hand-me-down free food from my parents) with milk. Turns out this was a bad idea, one which reminded me why I quit eating cold breakfast cereal. I’m just not a big fan of milk, unless it’s transformed in combination with something delicious, like tea or ice cream ingredients. (I’ll make an exception in the case of hot and fresh chocolatey baked goods, and tomato soup. For some reason I really love the contrast between a glass of cold milk and the savory acidity of hot tomato soup. But I digress.) If grains are going to be soggy, I want them warm, and soaked in delicious stir-fry sauce or something — old milk doesn’t count. So I was still hungry after forcing myself to finish the sad little bowl of milk-soaked oats and whatever. All told, cold breakfast cereal is still not my favorite: anything besides granola leaves much to be desired.
In other news of the disappointing, today the Ethicurean reminded me that the FDA now allows irradiation of spinach and lettuce. (more…)
Do me a favor, readers. 4 September 2008 4:52 pm
Posted by Tracy in : geekery, not even vegetarian, history, meat, politics, eating, vegetarian, people , 1 comment so farI need your help.
Together, we can destroy the myth that Hitler was a vegetarian.
Seriously. I know it’s a funny thing to talk about and all — even Eddie Izzard gave it a go in the otherwise entirely brilliant Dress to Kill — but it’s not true. Hitler was no more vegetarian than I am, which is to say he was maybe a picky meat eater, but he definitely ate the flesh of dead animals. There is plenty of documentation of this fact (more on that in a bit). Please, everybody spread this idea far and wide, because I am entirely sick of hearing people snicker about the idea of a genocidal maniac who wouldn’t eat anything that involved killing animals.
I’m bringing this up now because (more…)
Happy short attention span Friday! 20 June 2008 11:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : pictures, politics, random, work, Morning Glory, eugene, news, cooking , 1 comment so farKeep reading and find out why I’m so distracted!
First, yesterday I cooked for a good cause. Here’s hoping the event was a huge success!
But today I am cleaning for a good cause:
Quick updates! 26 March 2008 9:13 am
Posted by Tracy in : politics, breakfast, nutrition, pictures, Morning Glory, news, health, books , add a commentFirst, I finally added this week’s Morning Glory specials to Monday’s post. More on that in a bit.
Second, Google Analytics says almost none of you read my open letter to Keith Knight, but that’s okay, because the man himself did, and even wrote me a nice comment which completely made my day, so yay!
Finally, a little rant about yesterday’s annoying food, nutrition, and health news. (more…)
