Some look at the world and say “Eewww”. I look at the world and say “Yum”….

My neighbors were driving through upstate New York with their 5 year old daughter. Mom points out a rabbit on the side of the road, and daughter responds, “Yum!”

Later they spot a deer. “Look, honey, a deer!”
“Oh, how cute!” daughter coos. “Mommy, have I ever eaten deer?”

So I suspect you two are somehow related…just sayin.

Yes, but you will have to wait for the report that is being issued by the dietary supplement industry for that headline.

And I hear you re: ignorance about the cruelty and slaughtering. I almost got up and left a restaurant one night when one of our friends ordered foie gras. No, I’m not PETA-obnoxious about it, but still. I think I’m going to give selected persons copies of “Fast Food Nation” for X-mas gifts. Really, I’m just thinking about their karma.

We need to humanely dispose of Megan.

Ditto. I had to hang a picture of chickens being debeaked on my refrigerator before my boyfriend finally agreed to buy the cruelty-free kind. I mean, even at $3-4/dozen that comes out to what, $0.30/egg?

Yeah I heard that on NPR this morning, but it sounded… erm… fishy. Not so much that mercury poisoning is overrated – I can totally see that. It was just that the scientists being interviewed were overstressing that babies need their mothers to eat a minimum, a minimum of 12 oz of ocean fish a week for normal brain development. One pediatrician was stammering about how she ate fish nearly every day during her own pregnancy. She sounded like she had a gun to her head.

Turns out the group that issued the report received $60,000 from the seafood industry, but it totally didn’t bias their results – results seeming to be “opinion” in this case.

So you’re saying things haven’t changed much since Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle.

Megan McArdle

ASSMATERAFACT SORTA VEGEN VIRTUAL SOLDIER
SO NOT WEARING BCGs
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Durned preview fooled me. :|

“Capers” is restaurant code for “rat turds,” as indicated in the 1970s Donald Sutherland/Leonard Nimoy (first) re-make of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Tommy’s. Ummm. The delicious scent stays for days. Sometimes I think they dose them w/ MSG, as more than once I have finished one & promptly marched back to the counter for another. Or they’re just that good. Or not super-sized enough.

Beware of that ‘O’ brand Safeway’s selling. It’s replaced all the individual organic suppliers Safeway used to sell. Anything “organic” at Safeway is made by this O company. Trouble is, O doesn’t list the origins of the ingredients on any label, including the eggs. I read in an OCA newsletter awhile back that one of the egg suppliers to O is actually a factory farm.

MzNicky, at the time I was madly addicted to so-called “low-fat” refined carbohydrates at the time. To break this I went on a strict protein/complex carbohydrate diet (eliminating all refined flour products and sugar) for a couple of weeks until I could get back to eating sensibly.

I eat way more nuts and seeds now (as these digest well and contain the healthy fats). I can also buy vegan protein shake mixes to which I add berries, flax meal, wheat germ, and pecans.

t4toby, wild salmon is relatively easy here in the Pacific Northwest but I avoid buying it because the salmon stocks are depleted from overfishing. Scientists report that Orca whales are leaving the west coast because they can’t get enough food and since they can’t shop at the grocers and have limited options, I figure it’s the least I can do as a consumer.

I only buy organic fruits and vegetables too. They generally taste better, especially the fruits. Organic strawberries and oranges are very yummy.