Them is Good Eats

If Americans came with user-care manuals, the section on feeding would be reduced to a sidebar? 1) Open mouth; 2) Shovel in crap. Heck, my friends spend more time, money and consideration feeding their dog than it seems most parents do packing their kids? lunches. Even a bulldog would turn tail from Kraft Yackables.

Of course, the reason our palates are now as desensitized as once were SuperMasochist Bob Flanagan?s genitals may well be because we?ve stopped thinking of food as a bounty and rather as a commodity. Thus, ordering chemically-laden, market-designed approximations of sustenance ? such as the McRib Sandwich replete with molded ?bones?! ? is as natural as refueling the Escalade so one can drive the ten blocks to work daily. Even if these practices are as SICK as driving nails through one?s penis for sexual pleasure, corporate interests have successfully reframed Nutrition as a matter of personal choice and objective taste. (Dammit, it?s my right to eat like an uneducated pig!) Sorry, folks, Nutrition is a science. It may be inexact, but I can guarantee you studies prove Mexi-fries are as much an affront to your digestive tract as to Mexicans. (I?m pretty sure Pancho Villa wasn?t filling up on deformed tater-tots no matter how revolutionary either may have been.)

This summer, the encyclopedic documentary, FOOD, INC. catalogued some of the most common and grievous absurdities of America?s industrialized food fixation. Recently, I joined KUOW?s chip-craving interlocutor Jeannie Yandel, for a conversation about what other films about food are fit for our consumption. Click here to hear our talk and to download a bonus list of other devourable features.

(*I must add that KING CORN should appear on this list as well, but does not? because I forget things? Thanks to David Ward for reminding me about this provocative doc which should be ranked as high as? an elephant?s eye.*)

And, click here for The Warren Report?s podcast with Elise Pearlstein, producer of FOOD, INC. Or, here, for my talk with Michael Pollan.

Bon appetit!

Warren

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