we are walking tortilla chips
So I’m reading this book called “Omnivore’s Dilemma”, and as is annoyingly common when I read a book that interests me, this is my primary topic of conversation. Corn. Corn and the food industrial complex. And how every thing we eat has at least some portion of corn in it. So much corn, in fact, that scientists can tell from the type of carbon molecule that we are made of if it came from corn or non-corn. And we are walking tortilla chips. Corn-fed cattle (who aren’t made to eat corn), corn-fed chickens, pork, and then everything else we eat seems to be corn-based.
So, besides trying to get as much fiber in my diet as possible, I’m on a rampage to eat NOTHING that has any corn product in it at all. Besides those things which look like corn, which is fine, for example corn on the cob, that’s ok, and so is corn bread or sadza (cornmeal). But high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), Right Out. And as I have ranted before in my blog here, it’s damn hard to buy anything without HFCS in it, or some other corn by-product.
So I basically make most of the food I eat, I eat a lot of venison (still), vegetables, fruits or nuts for snacks, bran cereal (but not Kellogg’s, it has HFCS!), organic yoghurt, brown rice and other non-corn, non-processed grain. It takes a lot of work, let me tell you. It’s impossible to accomplish when you are eating out, so most everythign I eat at home is highly scrutinized.
This helps with the compost, actually. Good tomatoes next year.
Posted by Marie on September 11th, 2007 under UncategorizedOne Response to “we are walking tortilla chips”
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I’ve been on the same rampage about the food we eat since I read B Kingsolver’s latest book that I bought in Atlanta! And you’re right–it’s damned hard! Our neighbor lady has Celiac disease and can’t eat any gluten, so she veers toward corn products. What’s a person to do? For years, Lisa’s bro and sis-in-law and her colleague in the Bio dept at Clarke have said that corn and beef are NOT environmentally friendly to produce and now we are adding ethanol to the mix, in the name of being enviromentally friendly. What a world!