I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one can tell how “manly” a man is by looking at how many toppings he puts on his pizza. He also
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redjenny: Food Politics and American Elections
I find it fascinating how often American election campaigning features the cultural politics of food. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said in an interview with GQ out Monday that one can tell how “manly” a man is by looking at how many toppings he puts on his pizza. He also
Continue readingTrashy's World: Woo-hoo!
Today is National Sandwich Day! So get out there and get yourself a Montréal smoked meat on rye! A Ham and Swiss! Salmon salad! Tomato and mayo! PB and J! A sub! A wrap! A Schwarma! Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dream No Small Dreams – End Poverty
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the point of inactivity where it counts the most. When a man has his feet nailed to the floor, do we stop the bleeding, but leave […]
Things Are Good: Jon Bon Jovi Starts a PWYC Restaurant to Help People
Jon Bon Jovi has opened a restaurant that uses the pay what you can (PWYC) system to help Americans who are unable to purchase the most basic of necessitates: food.
Jon Bon Jovi Soul Kitchen from JBJ Soul Kitchen on Vimeo.
BoingBoing sums it up:
Soul Kitchen is a new restaurant opened in Red Bank, New Jersey, […]
Things Are Good: Toronto Bans Shark Fins
Toronto has joined other cities around the world in banning the consumption and commercialization of shark fins. The vote was almost unanimous with only three people in council (including the worst mayor Toronto has seen) supporting the killing of sharks for soup. Everyone else on council knew better and supported the ban.
Eric from WildAid […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Embedded Slavery
The last week has been super-interesting politically speaking in Regina. Not only is there an election campaign underway, but Occupy Regina challenged bylaws and to this point has won us back our Charter rights to assemble peacefully in dissent of the government. While people in the “first world” work out how best to peacefully gain […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Government Too Big To Fail
While talking about market regulation, I came up with an example of a situation where I think more government oversight and fines would be useful at protecting Canadians. It occurred to me, that it’s practically a metaphor of Saskatchewan’s current Sask Party government. “Unfortunately companies that are too big to fail get neither the government […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: (Provincial) election week in Canada
It would be nice if we did it as the States do — schedule all federal, state and local elections and by-elections such that they all happen on the same day (except in the case of death). Would save a ton on multiple manual revisions of th…
Continue readingThings Are Good: California Bans Shark Fin Soup
There are tons of reason to ban shark fin soup, and it’s not just because it’s cruel to sharks.
“Sharks have been around for nearly 400 million years, and could be wiped out in a single human generation due to an increasing demand for their fins,” said Knights. ”Fisheries regulation on the ground has utterly […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Change You Can See
Being the change you want to see in the world — it’s not just a clever slogan, it’s the only direct way someone can change their circumstances. Here are some stories of people doing things differently to make a difference for others. I plan to work on Victor’s campaign this Fall, as Saskatchewan goes to […]
Things Are Good: Organic Fertilizers Cost Effective and Better for Crops
Here’s a good story about how poor farmers in Kenya have shunned expensive chemical fertilizers for cheaper organic ones.
The organic fertiliser is sprayed onto maize two weeks after planting, and a month later.
Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services through Kenya Agriculture Research Institute have tested the fertiliser’s components and given an analytical report.
Mr Mosbei said […]
the woodshed: Somebody get Mike Wallace to look into this
We eat a lot of instant ramen noodles here at the Woodshed. I wish to the FSM they would stop calling these little packets of instant noodles “ramen” since they bear little or no resemblance to the wonderful steaming bowls of marvellous broth piled hig…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Good Reasons to Have a Vegan Diet
Unfortunately I’m no vegan, but this article is inspiring me to try harder at being one!
The article is an interview with Gene Baur, who is the founder of US-based animal rescue organization Farm Sanctuary about why a vegan diet is good for the planet, animals, and you.
What’s responsible for the rise of veganism?
I think […]
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Latest Fed decision, and de Tocqueville on bombastic simpletons
The US Fed dropped its usual pretentiousness and the technocratic language often used in its statements on interest rate decisions and was remarkably clear in yesterday’s decision, in which it pledged (by a vote of 7 to 3 with two abstentions) to…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Is Social Assistance a “Poverty Pariah?”
An article in the current edition of NOW Magazine looks at social assistance in Ontario. The article is aptly entitled “Poverty Pariah,” in light of how apparently unpopular Ontario’s welfare system has become over the past 20 years. As can be seen at the National Council of Welfare’s Interactive Welfare Incomes Map, a single adult […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here is the sunset from Whale Cove Campground on Digby Neck. It’s a nice campsite, and the owners, the Tidds are nice people. We met Vaughn’s […]
350 or bust: Eating Local, Eating Well: Meals From A Northern Garden
We woke up this morning to a hazy world, like many of the other communities in northwestern Ontario. Our corner of the province has 100 forest fires burning, and two First Nation communities north of us, Keewaywin and Sandy Lake, are being evacuated to…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Canada boycotts arms meeting
I rarely agree with the Harper Government on anything. But on this one, I do. We have every right, indeed the duty, to boycott a disarmament conference if the country chairing the meeting is North Korea. …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On the Hydraulic Thesis
The Hydraulic Thesis is related to the interplay between the rise of states in certain societies and the production of large scale irrigation and other ‘hydraulic’ systems that increase per area food production. Historically we see there is a loose tem…
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