By Anne Coulter
Oh she's at it again. The Viscous Vixen of Verbal Vituperation has written another (and don't laugh out loud when I say this) "book."
She does make a few good points that I actually agree with. But as per her usual, quickly surrenders the high ground with her endlessly ignorat hate.speech.
I have to say this time it isn't all the lefts fault, with some.finger pointing at the right as well.
The point is good Anne. We must.close the border and deal with our immigrants.
By Mark Schatzker
This book is a follow-up to Tomatoland by .
Todays food is being bred for looks and ease of growth and abundance. The thing being bred out is taste. This book chronicles the evolution of that process.
We open up with the invention of the Dorito. The ongoing metaphor of.the book is that the Dorito was just a poor-selling tortilla chip until the "Flavoring" was added. This is what is happening to the rest of the foods that are more bland than ever until the "Flavoring" is added.
19 Chapter Two: What happened to the chickens.
22 The beginning of the end of chickens was at A&P's Chicken Of Tommorrow contests.
23 This event,"would go on to doom the flavor of chicken and dumplings for decades to come"
26 "they are all broilers now. Words like 'Fryer' and 'roaster' still appear in cookbooks, but they dont exist anymore. We eat gigantic babies."
28 Not just poultry suffers, fruits and vegetables are steadily loosing there nutritional value as well and our paid "watchdogs" who should care, dont. Read,"As The Food Quality Drops, The USDA Just Shrugs," an article by Cheryl Long in Organic Gardening.
29 After several studies the results were in, "the reason that things like broccoli, wheat and corn had changed [was] just like chickens, they had been selected to grow.faster and bigger, and that was diluting the nutrients."
So there you have our bigger andbetter-looking.food is not all it purports to be.
31 Monsanto soent 10 million dollars trying to fix bland tomatoes. There aswer to bland genetically engineered tomatoes? What else more genetic engineering. To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail. Instead of.going back to the real tomato they further "frakenchised" it with the same poor results. What did Einstein say about stupidity.?
64 "Modern milk is like modern cjickecken and modern tomatoes--bland and watety."
The author says theyput butter Flavoring in margerine to make it taste more like butter. Now the put it in butter too, to make butter taste more. Like butter.
69 In MRI scanning, the same.pleasure centers light up for.food addicts as heroin addicts when shown pictures of their particular pleasure. This is no surprise to me. Also, studies show the craving has alot.more to do with addiction than the actual substance that is craved.
76 Although we crave and are physically rewarded by our salt, sugar, fat (read the book Salt, Sugar Fat for the full story on these three), and now umami (the savory taste), the author says its the flavor that causes the craving that causes us to eat. "We crave flavors."
81 So congratulations to us, for we figured out how to get as fat as we want. We now haventhe technology to stay wrapped in fat for the rest of our very shortened lifetimes.
82 According to our author,"We're done for. The rise in obesity is a predictable result in the rise of manufactured deliciousness."
Remember, only 31% of the population does not have the problem.
82 The future looks bleak, time to buy stock in "Lipitor and sweatpants."
120 Olecanthol in olive oil operates on the ssame.pathways as ibuprofen in the body and may be responsible for some.of the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
130 the fake frankenfood is everywhere in the supermarket. All diversein tastes and flavors but beneath the surface, it's all the same. Dannon strawberry yogurt has no strawnerries in it.
132 Today, we pop multivitamins even though years of research suggests they do nothing to augment health.
137 "This was get-up-out-of-your-chair and start dancing fried chicken." Chef Robert Irvine says good foo should make to wanna dance. I guess he was right.
140 The Buckeye chicken actually tastes like chicken. Who knew?
144 Good, naturally flavored, fills ypu up better, and therefore, you eat less.
Check this out in USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/06/22/general-mills-artificial-ingredients-cereal/29101165/
General Mills to Nix Artificial Flavoring from its cereals
(Ha no way) whars the catch?
152 Humans love eating the plants that give off defense mechanisms when they are consumed. Animals get the message and.leavethem alone but we actually love the taste of their defensive juices. We love toxic pesticides, "nicotine, cocaine, heroin and THC -'even caffiene- all evolved to interfere with neuronal.signaling in herbivors." We get a kick out of being intoxicated, a word the author reminds us, has the word toxic in.it.
Read this paper
Explaining Human Recrearional Use Of Pesticides published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.
158 So the problem is that the foods that are actually good for us are be oming vlander and less tasty, while.the food that are not good.for us are just the opposite. And then if.you make "diet.food" that tastes real.good people.just o ereat.that in a.process known as the "snackwell effect."
162 We still wait.in vain for.someone to figure out, in an economical way, how to deliver natures flavor and nutrition. "For everone else, pass the Doritos
171 "It's simple to eat healthy," says Michael Pollan, "just.eat foods your grandmother would recognize."
174 I oder to no have the ranco a GMOtomatoa would cause, Tomato expert Harry Klee will breed the changes into the tomato that make it tastier.
176 Klees experiments proved that "yoeld does not have to come at the expense of flavor. So far, no one.cares. Tastleless sells.
197 Remember "big food" only cares about te bottom line. If these companies see there is money to be had in flavor, then.flavor we shall have.
198 Whose fault is it for this ttal lack of interest in flavor? The author blames "the horde of shopping cart pushers that thinks anything that costs more than 99c a pound os a rip off."
206 the Apoendix gives useful hints on how to eat better. Eating a wide variety of things in a good way to proper nutrition. Also avoid food that flavor was added by a PhD.
This is a good ook for learning how to eat better and therefore less.
Books:
Neurogastronmy by Gordon Shepard. This book is about the science of food enjoyment.
By Rosadeth Moss Kanter
So now we live in a world of yesterdays and has-beens and crumbling infrastructure. The drive that made us the envy of the world in the post-war era, has left us. We once knocked out the big projects like the US highway system and now we cant even keep our potholes filled.
I first realized that we has lost.the race, or at least passed the torch, while watching an engineering show. This show portrayed massive building projects all over the world. It showed the biggest and bestest technology and none of them were in America. Thats when I first started to realize that we were no longer us in the lead.
This book tells how we can start to reverse this trend. Instead of waiting for our incapacitated and.feeble Federal government to act, we are going.to have to fix it ourselves. Entrepreneurs all over America are beginning to find ways to improve our situation qhile.making a buck too. Certainly nothing wrong with that.
5 It's just a matter of priorities claims Kanter saying that "America has the expertise and innovation" and even the money needed to fix the problem, but we lack the combined will. Countries that out-perform us in these areas "allocate public money for public works at the national level."
9 "The average American commuter wastes a total of 38 hours in traffic per year." This is a consequence of our choices. There was a time, in America, when we had a choice between mass transportation and solo. We would have to decide if it would be buses and trains or trucks and cars. We went with cars and we atill suffer the consequences of that decision today. The author goes on to detail our shame here.
11 Then we take a look around the world, we whiz through the ' Chunnel'...ride a high-speed.train in China," and even enjoy a high-speed internet connection in the sticks in Turkey.
13 Chicago street swallows minivan in 2011.
Well spend money when it comes.to."defense" or war. Thats how we got the US highways and the Apollo program.
23 Michael Ward CEO of CSX gets a nod for making his compnay greener and more responsive to the environmemt.
24 Yes the Tappan-Zee Bridge. Thats a big infrastructure project and right in my backyard.
Chapter 2 On the Rails
Other countries have trains that move along aafely at speeds of 150-200 miles an hour. We're unsafe at.35 mph on our trains. Everyday.theres a new horror story on the news of yet another train accident in America. I would not feel.safe on trains of planes right now. Although statistically driving is much more damgerous, I'll drive.
The Japanese bullet trains are faster and safer than ours and as we learned from David Sedaris, cleaner too. In one of his books i read he marvels at the fact that when the little Japanese forls.gets smudges all over the train window, the mother cleans the window before she gets off the train.
47 The Chicago rail hub is deemed "The Slowest Six Miles in America." It is the most inefficient and ineffective mass of steel ever contrived and cloggs the through traffic in its bowels.
58 I did not realize Amtrak was a government-owned corporation. It comes from passage of the 1970 Rail Passenger Service Act which created the National Railroad Passanger Corporation, aka Amtrak.
61 Federal reimbursement for rail has gone down since 1976 at 4.95%. Its now 1.02%. This while the others sectors, ie highways and aviation, havenremained stable or gained. This shows where the priority lies.
69 We either invest in railroads or that freight the carry is going to move to the already congested highways causing, as the author says,"crioling delays for commuters and 2o million tons of CO2 emissions from trucks."
Rail infrastructure is cumbling and outdated due to lack of inteest and funding. Im remembering Arlo.. Good monnin' American how are ya.
Choter 3 Airlines
74 The Airline industry "1.3 trillion in economic actvity [and [ supports 10.2 million jobs.
75 The ASCE says if we don't start uograding now 350,000 of those jobs will dissapear.
110 Stewart International Airport in Newburgh ny was privtley owedfrom 2001-2007. Then it was sold back to theport authority as a bad investment.
124 HOT (High Occupancy Toll) lanes are "dynamically priced" and can vary from 25 cents to five dollars depending on traffic congestion and time of day. Either pay up or sit in traffic. Wow I've heard of a two-tiered internet, but a two-teired Highway? Big data will help government and the pseudo-government (corporations) to suck every last penny out of us with much greater effeciency. This "dynamic pricing" gambit is popping up all over now on the internet with prices being set individually depending on how much they think they can get you to pay.
128 Digital billboards, which have proven to be more distracting then the regular ones ("80% of accidents are caused by driver distraction") are coming to a highway near you. They will be able to "communicate with the vehicle t display a message custom designed for the driver". So now those crazy ads that follow us around the internet, will follow us around the highway too.
Imagne a dystopian future where advertising, now ubiquitous, follows us everywhere we go.
Hey how about if were willing to look at ads, you give us a break on the HOT pricing?
133 "In mid-2014, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and Apple CEO Tim Crook stood together in silicon valley to announce a partnership to combine data analysis, cloud, and mobile technology with smartphones and tablets." How bout dynamic advertising on your dashboard screen? I think George Carlin said it best when he said bend over a little further so we can shove this big advettising poll a little further up your arse.
150 Dynamic pricing coming.to a parking meter near.you. apparently parking apps,which are intended to help you.find parking faster by.announcing empty spots, will alos adjust.price to the need. Just like the HOT lanes, those who can afford.it, and want to pay up, will move.to the head of.the line.
162 Smart street lights with cameras led.to a "24% lower rate of fatal red-light running crashes. However, it has also lead to an increase in rear-nd collisions caus by drivers locking up the breaks at the red light. Such is human behavior, and that cannot be digitized, not yet at least.
The time is rapidly.approaching when you could be sitting in the park and.order anything and have.it delivered to you. Moblile phone technology and drones will enable this.
175 Well Mr. Putnam we may not be"Bowling Alone" much longer. Cities are now trying to change.things u ppo by reversing the trend so prevalent since the 50's. They seek to place te needs of people over cars and improve the "public space." Theses.cities.will becme.more people centric as the last great migration plays out.
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
by Anthony M. Townsend
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
by Doug Saunders
Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next by Kasarda, John D., Lindsay, Greg 1st (first...
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
Many innovations are.coming quickly to American transoortation. With the right guidance and decision making we could maybe catch up the rest of the "civilized" world yet.
Books:
Change Masters
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Confidence: How winning streaks and Loosing Streaks Begin and End
World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
