Food Economics

[not2late]

Interesting article in the Washington Post:

washingtonpost.com

[sallyseachange]

Thanks for sharing Megs. Interesting... and not surprising.

[mizski]

That was a great experiment. Homemade food is just so much better...tastier, more nutritious and cheaper. I seldom buy anything prepared or fast foods but when I do, I'm amazed at how salty it is and otherwise pretty flavorless. Too bad more people don't cook from scratch even though I think that is slowly changing. I hope anyway.

I found this to be extremely scary:

According to the BK Web site, at http://www.bk.com, the company uses "100% USDA inspected Ground Beef," which sounds like something but actually means almost nothing. John Dewar, Boston's preeminent butcher, said he would guess that "close to 99 percent of all beef consumed in the U.S. is USDA inspected, which means that the beef can come from any country, any kind of beef animal -- veal, cow, bull or steer -- and any muscle part of any or all of these sources combined."

I haven't seen the Food, Inc. movie or read the book yet but plan to. It addresses this issue. Have to admit I'm scared to know more horror stories about our food than I know now though.