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How strange that 40,000 people had cars and gas to get to free vegetables, but no money to buy vegetables.

Please tell me who is not at least bi-racial? From which planet did the other gene pool come? Are we not all descendants of the original human being?

Congratulations on the weight loss, really and sincerely, but I too don't really get celebrating an election by eating anything, let alone a diet bomb whose empty calories shoved aside the healthy ones.

I gave myself a promised diamond necklace for a successful diet... a small one to be sure. I guess that doesn't work for you. Maybe giving it to your wife would work for you, she looks worth it.

I'm with Buffy on this story.

Healthy people don't die very often from those salmonella/e.coli problems. THose that do don't die fast.

LOL you know the really huge challenge we must soon face is that of potable water. It's actually worth more to the human organism than gasoline. Maybe this is the beginning of a new appreciation and recognition: Water: it's what to drink." "Got water?" "Water time!"

Slow Food is not meant to serve social needs. You can do that wherever you are.
Slow Food is meant to save the food supply from the madness that has overtaken us. Slow Food is meant to point a finger at who is growing, making, cooking and serving real food instead of additive filled pre-prepared products of agribusiness.
You need Slow Food not to feed poor people but to ensure that you have a choice in the marketplace and that you know how and why to make that choice.

I believe that when consumers learn what is god and what not about oils, they won't buy the cheap stuff and the pressure will be relieved. OTH, olives are one of the few crops that really do not need to be watered if you aren't trying to sacrifice quality for quantity. I honestly have not seen intensive irrigated plantings in Italy, but I haven't been everywhere. Yet.

I find that quote stupid and offensive. I lived in DC for decades and no restaurant was particularly famous for JFK tricks, but many were famous for this or that one having been there before some stupid public stunt.
Just because some jerk in DC said it, doesn't mean you have to quote it.

I really thought it was an elaborate joke, but if it is, clearly the Japanese population are helping the Times pull it off. I think I'll skip this one.

Of course it is impossible for the ordinary person to prove this one way or the other. I offer anecdotal evidence. I left the US 7 years ago told I had few years left because of an autoimmune complex had developed. Where I live hormones in the food and antibiotics are illegal. Packaged foods are rare. The consumption of fresh from raw vegetables and fruits is the norm.

Within a couple of years it became clear to me that I would outlive my money. I went back to school and have begun a new career. I'm not cured of all the damages I suffered before, but the whole thing has just stopped as far as can be tested.

I do believe the food supply in the US is doing us harm. How much harm and what kind I can't specify. I'm not starting a campaign decrying the whole system, because I haven't the scientific background to present facts or run controlled experiments, but I use every opportunity to wean people from processed, packaged, treated and hormone-pushed food. Better 100 g of clean meat than a 12 ounce steak full of crap-- and that could be literal.

We can bog ourselves down in semantics and history, or we can decide to take the words as symbolic. Don't eat anything somebody's grandmother wouldn't recognize as food works for me.
I think the ideas are simplistic because he's recognized that a lot of people won't listen if they have to think. That quote about what to eat circled the globe because it was easy for anyone to understand and spurred lots of discussions. So now more people think, although not enough, folks, not enough.
If only people will spend even half as much time thinking about the quality of their bites as they think of their kid-delivery trips or their dining out options, we'll see a healthier generation, and maybe one that "gets" food and nutrition. After school activities can't be as important as eating decently, and if college entrance requirements have made them so, as I am told, then change the college entrance requirements. And while they're at it, maybe they can change the college food offerings as well. My memories of college food are still traumatic 33 years later.

Cavatelli con fagioli e cozze at la Maddonina in Ostuni, Puglia. Food doesn't get much better than this simple dish in its hometown. It ought to be embroidered onto the Italian flag.