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The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

Started by johnlilly · 10 months ago

Great, great book. I didn’t really mean to read this — but I was at Logan a couple of weeks ago with nothing to read (a very strange happenstance for me), and this was the best thing I could find to read at the bookstore there. I’m really happy I picked ... Continue reading »

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Christopher Blizzard
1 year ago

I loved that book. One little geeky think I loved in it was the fact that you can tell based on the amount of a certain type of carbon in your body what percentage of you is "made of corn." Mind blowing, really. With all the cheeseburgers and chips I've eaten in my life I'm sure I'm more than half corn at this point.

Corn has done a great job of domesticating us.

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Mike Beltzner
1 year ago

I'd be keen to borrow that one, if you're looking for a place to lend it :)

I'm also quite eager to see King Corn when it hits the local theatres.

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nprevs
1 year ago

From a health standpoint, I generally feel better about eat corn products (like corn tortillas) rather than white flour products (flour tortillas), because the corn stuff is often a whole food, whereas white flour is essentially sugar, having been stripped of the bran.

Obv corn syrup is a separate nightmare.

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John
1 year ago

hey nicholas -- you should read the first section -- corn is okay, of course, we just seem to be ingesting an awful lot of the low grade variety...

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