If you liked Fast Food Nation you should read Diet for a New America. It was written in 1987 with an update in 1995 in the back...so some of the data is out of date. Some of the things he writes about have gotten worse, some have gotten better. In a lot of cases they've gotten worse but the meaty/dairy/etc industries have done a good job of lying. In any case, it's still really good information and lays out the case for vegetarianism/veganism pretty nicely. He never takes the tone of, YOU ASSHOLE!, it's more like, here's what's being done, and you're eating it, do you really want to eat it?
Cooking from scratch and buying organic are obviously the best way to avoid weird crap in your food, but you already knew that. Yeay for the Whole Foods market on Burnside. Their bulk bins and produce sections are really close to each other. It's odd, because New Seasons (in Orenco) is probably bigger from a square-footage standpoint, and has more actual items, but Whole Foods has so much more for vegans. Especially in the deli section, OMG. When I was looking for work and eating with my food stamps (well, Oregon Trail card, but wtf-ever), I would always stop there for lunch, because anything cold, I could buy with my food benefits.
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Date: 2005-02-16 04:00 am (UTC)If you liked Fast Food Nation you should read Diet for a New America. It was written in 1987 with an update in 1995 in the back...so some of the data is out of date. Some of the things he writes about have gotten worse, some have gotten better. In a lot of cases they've gotten worse but the meaty/dairy/etc industries have done a good job of lying. In any case, it's still really good information and lays out the case for vegetarianism/veganism pretty nicely. He never takes the tone of, YOU ASSHOLE!, it's more like, here's what's being done, and you're eating it, do you really want to eat it?
Cooking from scratch and buying organic are obviously the best way to avoid weird crap in your food, but you already knew that. Yeay for the Whole Foods market on Burnside. Their bulk bins and produce sections are really close to each other. It's odd, because New Seasons (in Orenco) is probably bigger from a square-footage standpoint, and has more actual items, but Whole Foods has so much more for vegans. Especially in the deli section, OMG. When I was looking for work and eating with my food stamps (well, Oregon Trail card, but wtf-ever), I would always stop there for lunch, because anything cold, I could buy with my food benefits.