I thought I’d subscribe to the Atlantic Food Blog briefly to see what it was all about. First of all they only gave snippets in their RSS feed, a major problem in my book. But then they announced they were going to do a series on somebody who had an overeating problem, followed up by an article about how meat is supposedly bad for you.
Fuck that. They can go preach to somebody else.
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7 Responses to “The Atlantic Anti-Food Blog”
March 24th, 2009 at 9:37 am
They’re talking about a recent study. CNN was running a piece on it when I walked past the TV in the lobby a few minutes ago. Blogs do talk about news items sometimes…
March 24th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Meh, I like meat. I don’t subscribe to food blogs to be lectured to.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Dead animals are tasty. I don’t eat pig for personal reasons, but the rest are completely fair game.
So to speak.
Which, consider this my rebuttal to whatever it was they were saying–entirely unscientific and useless, but it has the benefit of appealing to my love of eating dead animals. Yum!
Not that my own RSS feed is anything other than the post titles. Sorry about that.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Your post made me laugh … I love your phrasing “how meat is ‘supposedly’ bad for you.” As if those wacko scientists have just been making this all up. I laugh in the face of your ‘supposed’ science. Let the Dark Ages reign!
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/071211/high-meat-consumption-linked-to-heightened-cancer-risk.htm
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Eating_Lots_of_Red_Meat_Linked_to_Colon_Cancer.asp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090323/ap_on_he_me/med_diet_meat_mortality
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/13384
http://wjz.com/health/red.meat.mortality.2.966092.html
March 26th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Eating too much of anything will kill you. Too much meat does seem to lead to higher incidents of colon cancer. That doesn’t mean that those articles constitute science, as opposed to politics. Nor does it mean that that’s the type of article that should appeal to foodies in a food blog.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Red Meat Advisory and John:
Eating too much Crisco is uber bad for you. Eating too much sugar: bad. Too much pasta, too many potatoes, too much rice, too much white flour, too much honey, too much corn syrup: bad. Too much cheese: you guessed it, BAD! ooga booga wooga!
WHO CARES! I will regulate my diet to avoid eating too much of things that are bad for me based on my needs and genetic makeup. I visit a food blog or watch the food network because I want to LEARN how to PERFECT the ART of PREPARING tasty stuff to EAT of ANY KIND!
Wow, newsflash, right?
It doesn’t mean I’ll be eating beef Wellington and lamb confit every night. Maybe just once in my life even. Maybe never at all but the techniques I learn can help me with a vegan dish omg!
That’s the role of a food channel. Teach me the art. Teach me technique. Teach me about flavors textures. Show me how the flavors and molecular makeup of different foods change and interplay with each other under varying conditions. I’ll check in with my doctor or the health channel for the rest thank you very much.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Oh, and one more thing. Now they’re talking about living with gastric bypass surgery. Honestly, that’s beyond out of place.
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