The High Price of Cheap Food
Here is a really good article from Time about the problems with the food industry. If you don’t feel like reading the entire article online, I’ll have a few copies available at the gym. The article does a good job summarizing the recent movie Food Inc.
Read full article here.
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Tuesday’s WOD:
4 Rounds
15 Deadlifts
15 Ring Dips
20 KB Swings
403m Run
CrossFit Sweat Shop: Walnut Creek, CA
I like this quote from that article:
When the pig is slaughtered, at about 5 months of age, he’ll become sausage or bacon that will sell cheap, feeding an American addiction to meat that has contributed to an obesity epidemic currently afflicting more than two-thirds of the population.
So, apparently eating meat makes us fat. I think that statement could benefit from supporting data. The article, while being rather alarmist, makes several very good points. I think it would be even more powerful without some of the leaps of logic and dire predictions. People have been pointing to agriculture destroying the world for a long time. Yes, it does. However, we produce more food every year. If the end really is near and ecological collapse is truly upon us, it isn’t showing up in crop yields. I, for one, welcome the coming apocalypse. I just hope it doesn’t interfere with my squats this coming Friday.
2 minutes…
TomC-
Spoken like a true Mark Rippetoe disciple.