I am currently reading Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. I can’t eat shit without feeling guilty about it.

And I haven’t even gotten to the meat section yet.

I love to eat, but I am seriously trying to cut down. But I only eat food.

You eat corn. Everything you eat is corn, whether or not you know it. And corn is made of petroleum, so you eat oil. Which is also in your water. Drink up!

I try to avoid any foods that list corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, and any type of corn oil on the product information label. That seriously cuts down on the number of prepared products I can purchase at the grocery store (and most meat is fed corn) but it is starting to have an effect on my waistline.

But yes, I do eat meat.

Yeah, I’ve been not eating corn syrup for a long time. But that’s just the beginning. Corn is in ketchup. Corn is in mustard. Corn is in mayonnaise. If you buy a cucumber, the sheen on your cucumber is corn. The pesticide used to raise any of your produce? Corn. Corn is in toothpaste. Anything that contains modified or unmodified corn starch obviously contains corn. But also, anything that contains maltodextrin, ascorbic acid, lecithin, lactic acid, lysine, maltose, MSG, and xanthum, among others: these are made of corn. The store that you purchase food in? That’s made (partially) of corn.

Reason being that certain giant companies got behind corn (long story) and the government subsidies sustaining it. Now we produce more corn than we can use. And continue to produce more and more corn every year. Agribusiness has to find a use for it, puts corn in EVERY thing.

DAT! I’d forgotten that nightmare. I remember working at Zuma Studios in New York and they had like eight of those things, because you’d have three in-service in the studios, two in the back being fingered with or packaged to ship to the repair shop and another three actually in the shop. Fucking nightmare.

And I hadn’t thought of it, Dimmer, but I bet you’re right- they’re just making a platform to be the template for a lot of other phones. We’ll see how this pans out.

Wha?!?! I totally thought I was in the iphone thread!! WTF?

That’s so weird.

HAHA! Circle of shame for you!

I can’t eat shit without feeling guilty about it.

Can this please be the new Comment of the Week.