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- I loved the San Francisco Chronicle review of An Inconvenient Truth:
Most ominous of all is evidence that the Antarctic ice shelf and the glaciers of Greenland are breaking up at a rate well beyond anything even scientists anticipated. If either were to melt completely—or if each were to melt halfway—the consequences would be dire for every coastal city, including Shanghai, New York and San Francisco. Indeed, about a fourth of Florida would disappear, though why Gore should care about that is another question entirely.
- Michael Pollan on the so-called “Food Police”:
To describe critics of agribusiness as cops or police is to imply that
their messages are somehow repressive, while the activities and
competing messages of the food companies represent the opposite:
freedom, a word they dearly love. When a journalist writes critically
of the cooking or marketing practices at McDonald’s, he is somehow
interfering with people’s freedom to enjoy their chicken nuggets—the
journalist stands for control. Yet for some reason the hundreds of
millions of dollars spent by McDonald’s to market its food represents
not control but freedom. Keep in mind that this marketing involves the
routine manipulation of children—bribing them with toys, enticing
them to eat more with cleverly designed packaging and portion sizes,
and deploying the arts of food science to exploit their inborn cravings
for fat, salt and sugar. So who exactly is the more “controlling” party
here?
P.S. Join the Slow Food movement. (It’s headquartered in Piemonte. Are you surprised?)
- Up in Boston, opera and the good fight come together in the North American premiere of Peter Eötvös’s Angels in America. Opening night, 16 June, is a benefit for AIDS Action Committee, an organization that gave precious help to a friend of vilaine fille’s while he was losing his battle with that stinking disease. The blogosfera’s very own Tom Meglioranza stars as Prior Walter.
vilaine fille will be there for the 17 June performance. Bloggatrici e bloggatori bostoniani, che ne dite ?
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