Check this out! (In Defence of Food)

[big brown horse]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/09/23/in-dairyland-pollans-food_2_ws_297532.html

My friend just sent me this link, I thought I would share! (My neice went to UW in Madison recently, and my parents and two siblings did too..back in the day.)

 

[DrakeMaiden]

I think that is a cool idea. I like the current choice of book, but also the general idea of having everyone "on the same page."

 

[reinbeau]

Excellent, the more who read Michael Pollan's books the better, so they can begin to understand what's wrong with our food 'system' (it shouldn't be a system!!!)

 

[Lady Henevere]

Bill Bruins, who has a dairy farm near Waupun and is president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, called the book "a direct attack on the way we farm today."

Correct. And his point is.....?

Nice to see that kids are interested. Thanks for posting, BBH.

 

[xpc]

It has been about 12 years now that I worked for a place in Wisconsin that made computer automated cheese equipment. While doing an install and on an off day sitting out by the surf in Puerto Rico my boss says to me between munching on deep fat fried octopus if I could re-write a program for a auto curd cutter computer - I did and it took about a year.

I later installed a few in Wisconsin and 1 in South America when the University of Wisconsin Madison called and asked if they could test the system, I spent many months there installing and helping them test the unit, UWM is by far an advanced university in experimental and proven technology. I never met the guy in the article but did work with a pretty young Asian women who knew her stuff.

p.s. I lived in Waupun too.

 

[big brown horse]

xpc, WHAT HAVEN'T YOU DONE??!!!

My neice went there and she is no slouch!!

 

[delia_peterson]

xpc, WHAT HAVEN'T YOU DONE??!!!

My neice went there and she is no slouch!!

Hmmm..xpc seeing as you drink with bears and pass out in your KFC...have you taken up swimming with sharks yet? With a beer of course...

 

[noobiechickenlady]

And at the bottom of that story, is this one. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/high-tech-food-cocoon-coo_n_299998.html

Meat & Fish maker??? Can I get an EEEWWWWWW???

 

[big brown horse]

 

[chipmunk]

That pretty much qualifies as bizarre