Dec 31, 2009: Don't Eat This One

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Tawny

My conclusion: all of our food is highly suspect and our government doesn't do a thing about it.

We're in a strange place food wise. Food production is efficient and we can feed everyone nationwide. We've commoditized food to the point that we treat it as just another mineral to be traded, seriously considering it for use as fuel for cars. In the name of food security we plant genetically identical crops across vast stretches of country setting ourselves up for giant catastrophe vs localized disruption. We're poisoning pollinators at a scale that it may not matter that there are little growing reserves of organic farming. Makes a guy want to put a few goats on and take the pledge to eat local.

Oh, I found a huge clump of slimey black insect eggs in a restaurant salad.

[spudcon]

Originally Posted by Griff

Oh, I found a huge clump of slimey black insect eggs in a restaurant salad.

I think that's called caviar.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by Griff

Oh, I found a huge clump of slimey black insect eggs in a restaurant salad.

How did they taste? And, did you turn into an insect? What kind?