E and I finished watching Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution tonight (thanks to Hulu). I have mixed feelings about the show, but I completely agree that our country needs massive reform when it comes to food, and particularly instiutional food.
As we finished watching the last episode, I felt outrage that we think so little of ourselves as human beings, that we allow our children to be fed crap. I’m disappointed that the Federal Government has lost sight of what is important (I’m looking at you, USDA). I find myself half-hoping for some catastrophic disaster that forces us to go back to preindustrial farming.
I know that there are a lot of people who are interested in this topic, so I am not alone. I hope we are at the beginning of a massive change that will affect us now, and not just my grandchildren.
If you don’t vote, you have no right to complain.
That is all.
I find the grounds-keeping practices of some office buildings abhorrent. Case in point, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) building near my office. Beautiful mums were planted in the late summer/early fall, but as soon as they started looking a little bit peaked, the plants were dug up and thrown in trash bags. I assume that these plants went to the landfill, considering their internment in trash bags.
A couple of weeks ago, tulips appeared where the mums used to be. I doubt that the tulips were planted as bulbs, considering how fast they appeared (and that I didn’t see any baby tulip leaves). I wonder what will happen to the tulips when they are past their prime? And how much money is HUD putting in to reworking their landscape every season?
