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you can pick healthy choices... i can get crunchy tacos with carnitas, fajita veggies, lettuce, and medium salsa. all stuff that I know won't add a lot of calories (like rice, beans). My total for that is 410 calories.

The law just requires that you post calorie information... I think Chipotle decided to do the "Calorie Range" as a way to post mis-leading information. Because items are not pre-made with a specific set of ingredients, and calories will vary based on your personal selections, they are well within their legal right to post a "range"- but clearly the range is total baloney.

As for the law itself, while I agree that eating by numbers is no way to live, there are clearly alot of people who think that fast food is less fattening than it is, and while we are all fairly well informed eaters- you'd be really surprised how many people are shocked to discover how incredibly fattening a Chipotle Burrito is.

As far as Chipotle being for "Serious Eaters", while their use of organic and/or fresh ingredients is commendable, it's still the lesser of two evils- and is clearly fast food made to be mass marketed and mass produced across the country in a cookie cutter way.

Does anyone have any good info on the biodegradable plastic bags? I got all excited when I first heard about them (clearly I need to get out more), but then I read that they're no good unless you compost (not really possible in Brooklyn) and that the energy used to grow the corn that goes into making them does much worse damage than regular plastic bags. @Chisai is right - in the city we have to use plastic bags for trash, so all of mine get reused. But I'd be happy to use canvas for grocery shopping and then buy biodegradable plastic bags, if they're any good for the environment. Help!

Whole Foods sells non-woven fabric or recycled plastic reusable bags for $1.00, and they often have promotions where they give them away w/purchase. The canvas-and-burlap Feed 100 bag is a fundraiser for charity. That really should have been explained in this entry, link or no. The way it reads suggests Whole Foods is going to make customers buy $30 canvas bags.

For the record, I've been using the non-woven bags for three years now, and they're still in great shape.

So I'm reading this thread ironically while watching National Geographic's Strange Days special on our waterways (that everyone who eats should watch) and what should come up but plastic. Coincidence? No, only about 1% of the 16 billion plastic bags that are made each year are recycled. Even the ones that "breakdown" only turn into smaller bits of plastic that contaminate the dirt and water and become "litterally" no-nutrition filler food for birds and animals while fish and other marine life think it's plankton and all we care about is what we are going to put our pet poop in?

As Ed Norton who hosts the shows says:

“People say, ‘What’s the one thing they could do to help?’ I say you gotta do more than one thing,” he said. But, he continued, “One thing for sure is the bags. Plastic bags are turning out to be one of the worst stupidest things that we’re doing to the environment. Those little bodega-deli plastic bags we use for 30 seconds and then throw away.”

He wants them banned, a move many countries have already taken. “When China is ahead of us in banning these things, when other countries around the world are banning these things, we need to get in line with that and catch up,” he said. “That is a simple, small thing that everybody can do—forget about those silly plastic bags.

There's a giant cesspool of plastic in the Pacific twice the size of the United States about 500 west of California. There's estimated to be 46,000 pieces of plastic trash in each square mile of ocean. In some places there is six pounds of plastic for every pound of fish. Americans use 380 BILLION plastic bags each year and some cities the cost is 17 cents disposing of each one.

Really, take a look at some pictures and see if you feel the same about convenience afterwards.

It's wonderful times we live in when people can be so serious about something so silly!

I always thought that WF was overpriced and now I'm sure of it. I can't help but wonder just how much of that $30 actually ends up feeding hungry children.

Try an asada steak, guac, and pico do gallo burrito (holding the rice, beans, peppers, onions, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, and anything else I might have missed). Have it with a Negra Modelo. Grab a couple lemon wedges from the fixins bar, and sprinkle some lemon juice as you go.

$30! We are not made out of money and with the rising price of food costs? Absolutely ridiculous!

I think the rice is this biggest sneak when it comes to calories.
My favorite is a barbacoa salad.

Go to this website www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=nutrition_calculator to find out just how bad for you it is. Never stops me from going, even though I live in a Tex-Mex capital. I love their guac.

My five favorite things:
Southern Fried Chicken
Cocoanut Ice Cream
Hot Fudge Sundae
Porterhouse Steak
Garlic Bread

stir frying