Comments on: Digest This http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:29:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/#comment-3105 Leah Koenig Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:44:33 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/#comment-3105 ...if you ever could, that is. …if you ever could, that is.

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/#comment-3104 Leah Koenig Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:44:09 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/#comment-3104 Good point. This reminds me of Michael Pollan's "supermarket pastoral" idea - the food companies know what sells products (promises of local, organic, natural), and they exploit it to the point where, for the most part, you can't really trust packaging anymore. Good point. This reminds me of Michael Pollan’s “supermarket pastoral” idea - the food companies know what sells products (promises of local, organic, natural), and they exploit it to the point where, for the most part, you can’t really trust packaging anymore.

]]> By: Jeffrey Yoskowitz http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/#comment-3092 Jeffrey Yoskowitz Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:24:47 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/digest-this-2/#comment-3092 I see no difference between organic bottled water and the kosher water unveiled at Kosherfest 2006 by the brand Mizmor. "I thirst for thee," was their tag line. I feel very much as if the values I proport to hold are just being exploited by big industry (and yes, I am well aware that is is actually the case and has been for years and years). I think things are getting too out of hand and I'm upset. Now I'm in Israel where the word "Tivee," which means natural, is put on every other processed food. I've been watching my cousins buy "natural" products thinking that they were eating well and I had to point out to them that the very same chemical sweetener in diet coke was in their natural mint beverage. I see no difference between organic bottled water and the kosher water unveiled at Kosherfest 2006 by the brand Mizmor. “I thirst for thee,” was their tag line. I feel very much as if the values I proport to hold are just being exploited by big industry (and yes, I am well aware that is is actually the case and has been for years and years).

I think things are getting too out of hand and I’m upset. Now I’m in Israel where the word “Tivee,” which means natural, is put on every other processed food. I’ve been watching my cousins buy “natural” products thinking that they were eating well and I had to point out to them that the very same chemical sweetener in diet coke was in their natural mint beverage.

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