Comments on: Dr. Michael Greger Interview

By: scott

scott — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:39:47 +0000

Mitchenall: You’re absolutely right. Noone ever complains about captive onions, bred in dark sheds so close that they can’t walk…

Joking aside, so long as it’s not GM, vegetables are a much more humane way to eat and should form a larger part of everyones diet - for health as much as anything else.

By: Mitchenall

Mitchenall — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:00:32 +0000

I think one of the issues is that quality meat products are that much more expensive, and those cooking on a budget, as much as they might prefer to buy free-range, etc., they simply can’t afford to pay the difference. Also, in some areas, the supermarkets have simply killed off all the other quality local business.

I think the answer is that we should all be eating less meat. I was a vegetarian for a few years in my youth and actually felt much more healthy as a result. However, I think being less of a fussy eater these days (except mushrooms… just don’t get me started on mushrooms… there is no method of preparation which can make me like mushrooms), I think I could probably enjoy being a vegetarian even more now.

But I still love eating meat and don’t much want to stop eating it. I think maybe spending the same amount on meat as I do now, but having it far less often so that much better quality meat can be bought within the same budget is probably the answer. I never buy cheap sausages, so I figure I should probably try and do the same with all the other meat I eat.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:08:23 +0000

Freya: Traceability is a great point actually. My local butcher has signs in the shop telling you where the meat was grown, where it was slaughtered, etc… The supermarkets tell you that too, but only make a “point” of it when it’s in their interests.

By: Freya

Freya — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:29:13 +0000

Hi Scott, It is so important that people are putting out the information that we need to go (heaven knows the government aren’t doing it). Intensive farming makes me furious! I’d rather not eat meat at all if I can’t trace where it comes from.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:15:51 +0000

Cherry Menlove: Great to see you singing from the same songsheet - we should do a food blogging event based around something on these lines for other like minded bloggers…

By: Cherry Menlove

Cherry Menlove — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:31:57 +0000

Wow! Thanks so much for getting that interview and posting it. I am made intensely angry by the sh*t that is sold in our supermarkets and made even more angry by the knock on effects that this food has on our kids, our hearts, our farmers and our environment. It is interviews like this and foodbloggers like you that will begin to chip away at this MASSIVE problem bit by bit. But you know what all of those little chips will eventually add up to. I really believe that a change is afoot. Hopefully, one that we will see in our lifetime.

On another subject do try and see Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvinient Truth’ if you can.

Cherry

By: scott

scott — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:53:05 +0000

Mae: It’s scary when we have an epidemic of any kind - with all the progresses in science, bacteria always stays one step ahead.

By: Mae

Mae — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:19:25 +0000

Scott, hi! What an interesting and indepth interview. Pretty scary if the H5N1 have the capacity to go human. Remember the mad cow disease?

Ditto to Katie.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:08:17 +0000

Katie: Crazy world we live in. Seems nothing we buy these days isn’t “messed with” in some way, doesn’t it?

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:31:53 +0000

Good, interesting interview!
Rather makes me wonder what we humans have gotten ourselves into!
Why do we expect everything we buy to be cheap (and everything we sell to make a big profit)?