The Bounty of Fresh Food in Spain
Domingo, Agosto 17th, 2008
This morning, with my cup of piping hot coffee in hand, I was scanning through my feedreader when I came across an interesting article on the way in which American health scientists tend to perceive overly extracted, fabricated and altered food as a permanent part of the American diet. Rather than being a human constructed consumable, it is looked upon as an integral part of our daily diet that cannot be changed or altered. The irony is that it can, simply by committing to the slow food movement. But rather than encourage critical thinking, and good choices, health scientists seem more like pharmacists, suggesting new pills that will counter the consequences of fast food.
I feel like the message is: “Don’t help people change their attitudes or choices, just make them down a pill to counteract the consequences of their last poor choice, which will then need another pill to counteract the side-effects from the last pill, and so on and so forth”.
Sound familiar? (más…)
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