Free The Animal

Seen at Safeway the other day.

"Large Hass Avocado"

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Via my good buddy Chris Highcock in Scotland, this is hilarious. And I love how they used computer-generated voices. Maybe I’m weird.

It raises the possibility of a decent New Year’s Resolution: maybe we all — especially us bloggers — ought to take ourseves a little less seriously.
Alright, back to serious nutrition & diet, next post. [...]

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I have no idea what Ricardo is posting about, here, but I had to laugh out loud at the image.

Don’t Worry
But what it did do was remind me of the movie Idiocracy. Plot: Hibernation experiment goes wrong and guy wakes up 500 years later to find that he’s the smartest person in the world. Plenty [...]

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I’ve become a real label reader lately, and I almost never like what I find. There are exceptions, such as when I got to Whole Foods and get a few tubs of Alexander Valley Fresh Sauerkraut, where the ingredients are: cabbage, filtered water, sea salt, and… there is no “and.” That’s it. That’s what the label of a Real Food product reads like. It even works for dogs, where I regularly get the dried chicken breasts, duck breasts, venison and buffalo livers, and even lamb’s lung. In each case, the ingredient label has only one word: chicken; duck…you get the idea. The biggest shocker is the way HFCS or High Fructose Corn Syrup has made its way into virtually everything. I recall looking at a bottle of BBQ sauce a while back, and, you guessed it: HFCS was ingredient number one. Same with catsup. Virtually all of them have HFCS as the first, second or third ingredient. OK, so now what? We’ll, how about a “healthy alternative” sweetened with, let’s say, “agave nectar?” Sounds exotic; healthy even. But at 80-90% fructose, it’s not only a health fraud but is actually far worse than corn syrup. Here’s why: Not All Sugars…

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