omnivore's dilemma

if i ever buy a car again, i will get a bumper sticker reading "i eat local."

i eat local. i eat whole foods.

why?

the omnivore's dilemma is one of the most influential books i have read. it has changed my mind about eating.

i now want to know what i eat. while i wasn't wondering, i
1) ate way more corn than expected [it's hidden everywhere]
2) consumed tons of petroleum doing so
3) lowered my nutritional intake

unbelievable :: a carrot is not a carrot. they have different nutritional values... and carrots made on factor farms with petroleum aren't that great for you.

i'm not a soap box.
i am a mum and pop comedy blog.
so stop reading here.

but if you're curious, i have more facts from the book.

* each mcdonalds meal takes 1/3 gallon of gas to produce.
* mcdonalds shakes = 78% corn, nuggets = 56% corn, cheeseburger = 52% corn
* "free range" chicken means there is a two week period the bird may opt to leave the factory farm and visit real grass. they never vacation [can't find their luggage]
* farming used to be a nice circle (poop -> soil -> plants -> animals -> poop). now we factory farm and raise animal factories with 2 huge problems: how to fertilize the soil (petroleum) and how to dispose of poop (pollute rivers)
* animals can't handle factory farms or eat what we're feeding them (corn), so we chalk them full of growth hormones and antibiotics. this is creating a drug-resistant super-bacteria.

whatever we choose to eat, we eat by the grace of nature. it's too bad this is oft forgotten.