Weight-loss advice by Billy Connolly

No enfants nous accuseront/ Our Children will accuse us

Après ce TED vidéo de Jamie Oliver c'est important de voir cette bande annonce du film-documentaire de Jean Paul Jaud.
Comment notre nourriture nous rend malade. Même message donc que Mr Oliver plus axé sur la production de notre nourriture et montrer le doigt à l'agriculture intensive et industrielle.
Ce qui est troublant c'est la campagne que je perçois comme encore intacte ne l'est pas du tout. (dans la bande annonce on voit des villages et agriculteurs ici à coté dans le Gard!)
Ça craint!
Je félicite le maire de ce village qui à décidé que la cantine d'école servira les repas bio. Bravo!

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Next video on the Health-Food relationship. Here's the trailer to the movie-documentary of Jean Paul Jaud.
What i find disturbing is the fact that the country side ( here next door!), i thought to be still good and healthy, is in fact sick and sickening with this intense-industrial kind of production. With an excessive need for pesticides and other treatment methods.
No really appetizing ...
On the positive note: I do admire the mayor of that small village next door that decided to have served only organic produced food in the school cafeteria.

Jamie Oliver: on Diet

A passionate plead on disease and food relation. A health catastrophe is happening right now on our plates.
Jamie's serious message (I think it's a perverse situation that eating bad food is killing us faster than not having sufficient food) The good news is we can prevent it and we can revers it. Education is key.
The part with the kids not knowing what the basic vegetables are is mind boggling. Then again i have been in supermarket check-outs where the ladies and/or occasional guy didn't know what veggie i was trying to buy (nothing fancy or exotic just a basic seasonal local thing)
These are important issues that need to be addressed. And it's the reason i started this blog, not that I am en expert nor am i so witty as Jamie, but because i feel that the next revolution is and will be on our plate. Food is the new way of keeping us powerless and a way of control (sure i watched an episode of X-files too many, but think about the additives extra sugar and fat in processed and fast food if it isn't to keep us addicted...?) Easy way to control our bodies, health and spending money.
Don't let them get you!

Food Advice from Billy Connolly

So funny and good advice: eat at home!

the costs of a good meal

According to several sources, a certain billionaire, Roman Abramovich, spend a 47 000 USD for a lunch at a NY eatery
To his defense might i add that he shared the meal with 9 others and he left a 5 000 USD tip. He injected a couple of thousand dollar into the local economy and all he got was this cheap looking bill?
I'm disappointed. With this money they earned they could invest in a designer and a printing system to print out nice looking bills worthy of these sums of money...

Politrix and food, what's not to love about that combination? Always good for some "saignant" news. Such as £500K bill to feed the attendees while discussing world crisis according to the Independent.co.uk

"When the world's most powerful leaders descended on London last month to tackle the economic crisis, they left Gordon Brown basking in the glory of brokering a deal to pump billions into the world's economy.

But it also left British taxpayers with a less desirable legacy – a bill of about £500,000 for wining and dining the delegates, their partners and their aides, The Independent can reveal."

Story continued in this article.

They could have set an example and show their concern, solidarity and that they mean business by eating a simple yet healthy meal for the official part and drink the good bottle of wine for the private part of the event AND paid out of their own pocket money and not subsided by taxpayers!

This kind of news makes my stomach turn and squeeze!

Regional Cola Rebellion

L'auvergne se rebelle et a crée son propre soda au goût de cola. L'Auvergnat Cola Mmm ça va être bon avec la truffade!

Mais les auvergnats ne sont pas les seuls à se "rebeller". Les corses aussi on "leur" Corsica Cola à part de forme de la bouteille l'étiquette ressemble tellement au grand concurrent, que on dirait presque un design à l'honneur de CC (Light). Où est la rébellion dans tout ça? On a mal digéré que Orangina a été racheté?
Ça ne sera pas plus facile de ne plus boire du cola et boire à la place des sodas anciens comme la limonade? Avant il n'y a plus de petites producteurs locaux. Soutenons les avant que'ils se font racheter par des grands groupes notés sur Wallstreet!



A Tweet from lamaincourante brought to my attention the site of Auvergnat Cola. As the site states it's born as an act of rebellion to produce a cola in the Auvergnat region. Sure they have great volcanic springwater, but do you have to drink it with tons of sugar and a secret mixture of more or less tasty ingredients? Would they serve this cola rather than the soda from the "evil empire" with an authentic Truffade?

But the Auvergnats are not the only ones to rebel with their own regional cola, the Corsicans did it too. The Corsica Cola bottle is different shaped but the label looks like a free meal for copyright lawyers to me!
Where's the rebellion in being a look-a-like ? Did you people haven't digested the Orangina take-over yet?
What about not drinking cola anymore and drink original old fashioned lemonade instead ? Although there are just a couple of survivors from the many local producers from way back when, it is still produced and the producers are struggling for market-share. It would be way more sustainable and rebellious then any cola spin-off.

Ted Talks Food for Thoughts

Dan Barber talking about Foie Gras, I know you had enough of that during the holidays, we people living in France sure did. But this Ted Talk makes a great start of the year.
Dan is not only talking about a producer in Spain making natural Foie Gras without gavage producing an absolute divine product, exactly as nature intended. Making the parallel to other products and giving us some food for thoughts about food and life.