By: Old Nick
Kate Logan: ROS had Michael Pollan on in the spring of this year: http://www.radioopensource.org/the-children-of-the-corn-subsidies . And it was a good show.
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Brian – optimism is a good thing. A true optimist accepts, non-judgmentally, reality as it is now and envisions a path to a better future. “Hapless dolts” is a judgmental framing that shames people....
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Oh, I forgot to add that Jeff is not alone as a conscientious-objector of the upscale chain behomeths and the fight against the comforts of familiarty. I find Panera, Starbucks, TeaLuxe, and the...
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A couple of great texts on the topic–David Foster Wallace (long) short story, “Mr. Squishy,” and Henri Lefebvre’s >, from which I took the following: “The backwardness of ’services’ essential to...
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Chris, you cooked up another gourmet dish of a conversation. The guests came to the table very well-equiped to debate.I ate up every crumb and thoroughly enjoyed the flavours. But I think this business...
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It may be late, and I have not read everyone elses comments. But I would like to point out this, in regards to fast food restaurants: It used to be that if I drove through a KFC or Carls Jr and I...
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I’m sorry, one more thought occured to me…YES people should be more aware of the choices that they are making in their busy daily lives BUT, you can’t blame 100% of this loss of free will on the...
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To Tiffany Dover: It is not McDonalds job to care about your health. That is your job. It is McDonalds job to sell you tasty enjoyable food. They hope it satisfies you so much that you return time...
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For evey problem in todays world there is some big greedy corporation that is at fault. rc21- What happened to your theory that it’s in a company’s own best interest to do what is best for all? This...
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[...] or a poorly constructed social system. …Is Free Will Dead? Have a good read/ listen here! This entry was posted on Saturday, October 7th, 2006 a [...]
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Giving into “convenience” is the first step towards mediocrity. “Familiarity” has several emotional grades, at one level it’s a feeling that derives from intimacy and knowing, and at another level it’s...
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To Potter: Yes I still believe that. The problem is that most fast food chains would go out of business if they only offered healthy choices. I guess this is where we may differ. The way I look at fast...
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Last time I checked, Morgan Spurlock, was not one of the panelists. I wasn’t aware this was a forum about fast food and obesity; I thought it was about how chains have moved beyond the lower echelons...
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My impression of this topic was that marketing may be limiting our choices. Also, DrewH, it does mention the teen lawsuit breifly on the main page for this article.
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[...] n-Linear Individualism, Freedom, and Food October 10th, 2006 A surprisingly superficial podcast episode on what could have been a very deep subject. [...]
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[...] meals at Olive Garden, but I also won’t have a really bad meal. She said that on a brilliant episode of Christopher Lydon’s Open Source podcast. This particular show, &# [...]
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rc21, You say, “I love junk food. Candy, pies, cookies, cake, pizza. hot dogs, you name it I like it. My choice is to eat it and become over weight or refrain and stay healthy.” Love that type of...
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