Friday, February 10, 2012

Welcome to Amerika 3

Excellent piece by Pat Buchanan on the Obama administration's recent decision to force the Catholic church to provide contraceptive and "morning after" service to its employees. And the gradual usurpation of legislative law-making rights by the Supreme Court. Link.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Juicing Big-time

The current issue of Vanity Fair magazine has a nice article about a booming California company (two stores) selling fresh-pressed veggie juices: Pressed Juicery. Locations currently in West L.A. and Malibu, making them hot and hip and trendy. But this is the real stuff: raw, un-pastuerized juice with a three-day shelf life that is pressed—the very gentlest and best way to extract juices. Until I broke my Welles Press juicer, it provided the best juice I've ever made (pulp created on a Champion, then pressed in the Welles). Pressed Juicery got started with the famed Norwalk Juicer, still the Cadillac (with a price tag to match). Read about Pressed Juicery here. (Picture from their website without permission.)

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

What I Say or What I Do?

When it comes to eating, should we do what the government says or what the government does? The pyramid on the left shows that nearly 74 percent of government food production subsidies go to the meat and dairy industry. But compare that with the portion of one's diet the government suggests should come from protein, predominantly meat and dairy in America (triangle on the right). In other words, compare the size of the two orange sections.

Also, compare how much of one's daily food the government says should be fruits and vegetables (green part of the right triangle) with how much money the government spends subsidizing the production of fruits and vegetables (.4 of one percent at the tip of the left triangle).

Shouldn't these two triangles look about the same? If the government is going to subsidize food production (topic for another day), shouldn't they do so proportionally to what they recommend we eat? Just sayin'. . . .

(Thanks, Robert)