September 2010
12 posts
“I watched a YouTube time-lapse video of a decomposing Twinkie for half an hour...”
– Adam Isacson
“Cheap is in the eyes of the accountant. Somehow we’ve forgotten how to add...”
– Daniel Imhoff, a researcher who edited a book “CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories,” quoted by Monica Eng in Factory farms: Meat is cheap, but at what cost?
“A hot dog should only be eight dollars if it comes with a side of six dollars.”
– Ian Chillag on Chicago’s Franks ‘N’ Dawgs. (I’d rather go to Hot Doug’s, the only place ticketed for violating Chicago’s short-lived foie gras ban.)
Demand inexpensive food, reap the consequences,... →
Good, safe things to put in your body ain’t cheap.
“I was like, who are these people and why do they care what I say?”
– Mike Haley, a 30-year-old, fifth-generation farmer in West Salem, Ohio, who started posting on Twitter as a way to push farmers’ agendas, on the surprising number of people who followed him. According to Forbes, some commodity traders are using Twitter to get inside trading information from...
“You may have heard that the Jondles, owners of Abundant Life Farms, were found...”
– Emily Grosvenor 