I thought the gubmint and pharmaceutical companies were encouraging us to cut down on the use of antibiotics. If this is not encouraging the overuse of antibiotics, I don’t know what is. Well, I guess where marketing and money are involved, public health has to take a back seat.
News: Publix to offer 7 popular prescription antibiotics for free
It is becoming clearer every day that food and produce imported from China, Mexico, and Central and South America are simply not up to standards of that produced in the USA. Fortunately, our Congress is working hard to put into place standards that foreign food growers and producers must adhere to.
Just kidding!
No, Congress is working hard to make it harder to determine what country your food was produced in so you have to eat whatever crap is served to you. I will guarantee that the congressional cafeterias will only have US produced food.
What can you do?
Contact your senator and representative and tell them you do not want any changes to the the COOL (Country Of Origin Labeling) and you want to continue to have labeling on what countries foods are produced in.
I laughed when I read the the review of FatWorld in Wired Magazine. It opens with this paragraph:
“Ian Bogost likes to play with failure. The 30-year-old Georgia Tech professor designs popular Web games powered by sarcasm and social commentary.”
You mean, as opposed to the other ninety percent of popular culture aimed at teens and Generation Y, also powered by hip sarcasm, irony and “social commentary”? Bogost goes on to defend his purely commercial venture (nothing wrong with that!) by adding this self-serving nonsense:
“Bogost describes how games can engage us through irony, luring us into a pattern of actions that we recognize as reprehensible,…”
No, all it does is create depressed, disaffected, apathetic people. The subtle message is “Why do anything? The fix is in, everyone is corrupt.” Well, if the fix is in and everyone is corrupt, why shouldn’t that also apply to Bogost? How about something engaging, hip and uplifting? Now that would be truly unique.
I don’t know about you, but I really get a kick out of those Beefeater Gin advertisements that show an artist’s rendition of London in the year 2050. They are quite well done and quite entertaining. You can see all of them by going to http://houseofbeefeater.com (leave off the www.) and clicking on the posters gallery.
Here is one of them. Since they let you download them for free and since I am crediting them, I’m sure they won’t mind (click on the image to zoom in):
However, if things continue unchanged, I think the following is a much more likely view of London in the year 2050. And as for drinking gin, or a cocktail, or a Pint? Fuhgeddaboudit! Ditto for listening to Rock ‘n Roll!
My apologies. As you can see I am not very good with touching up photos. Certainly not good enough to work for Associated Press!
