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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
I saw Food Inc. and
it was mind blowing! I am trying to be more green and eat healthy but after seeing it last night I found a relatively close co-op open to the public 7days a week 7am-11pm. So I have no more excuses! Did you see how Joel Salatin's chicken where nice and pink! Every time I wash a chicken is so horrible yellow!
Re: I saw Food Inc. and
It was on PBS last night! Something told me to get online and say something to the board, but I hate computers (I'm only on at work for like, 8 hours a day, home is me time!) so I didn't. Now I really regret it
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It's a great movie because it has a section where the head of Stoneyfield talks about selling to Wal-Mart and the impact it has had.
I don't eat 90% of the stuff that was featured, I follow Micheal Pollan's advice and stick to the perimeter of the store, but it def got me re-committed to some stuff I've been letting slip (like buying more green stuff from the market than usual).
I think that even though it is slightly preaching to the choir, the movie has helped me better articulate my arguements against certain foods, and the Wal-Mart portion really openned my eyes.
i haven't seen it either, though i have it on netflix... want to come over and watch it and drink wine some time?
I don't get any tv channels (at all) so your announcement wouldn't have gotten me to watch!
PV we'd talk through it all! haha.
I suck at watching tv with people.
It's streaming on the PBS website until 4/28. Just look under the show "POV."
I couldn't watch all of it last night, but the first half wasn't all that shocking. I just finished reading Omnivore's Dilemma, and a lot of the information seemed to be pulled from there.
I'm not ready to eliminate meat from my diet, and I'm not sure I ever will be. However, I feel that if I'm going to eat it, I should take responsibility and know where it comes from. We're trying to minimize our beef intake and add some vegetarian meals into our diet. Next step is to look into getting a 1/4 grass fed cow. The hardest part is convincing DH that the higher price is worth it.
Amen to that! I've been making the slightest of changes first, fruits and veg increasing in price won't register on his radar cause I buy the groceries anyway. An increase of 10-15 dollars a week is no big deal. But at $15-$18/lb for local grass fed beef, I can't imagine that he wont notice that since at the store you can get hanburger for $1.50/lb and steaks starting at $4-$5/lb!
I posted about it Tuesday (scroll back) so don't feel bad.