two's
- I went to a resume workshop for educators today. Yes, teachers can have two-page resumes.
- Mom and Dad are coming in two days!
- My two classes tonight were enjoyable, though there was so much reading that I had to skip two other fun events, fellowship group last night and BSF lunch today.
- Honestly, people. Stop setting off the fire alarm! The poor fire department sends at least two fire trucks every time, and it's happening at least once a week - sometimes two times in twenty-four hours! (Yes, for real.)
- Brian called two times this week. He has a job prospect!
- Two other friends called, too - Patrick (who's in Seattle) and Jenn (all the way from China!).
And two things in the news...
- New York City is considering banning cooks at any of the city's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain artery-clogging artificial trans fatty acids, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil. Now that's cool! Read about it here.
- Super skinny models have been banned in Spain. That's cool, too! Read about it here.
posted by Jen Reed @ 12:16 AM
4 Comments:
At 10:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
About the cooking ban...
While it's cool that NYC aims to better health, I don't agree with their right to do so. What if I want to be cooked unhealthy foods? I think that I should have the right to have whatever I want cooked for me.
If eliminating these unhealthy fats was so important, the consumers would be demanding it, and restaurants would already boasting "hydrogenated oil free food!"
A similar example is with MSG. Some people (like a former roommate of mine) are allergic to MSG. MSG isn't particularly good for anyone else, either. I've seen several restaurants with "No MSG" labels on the signs and storefronts. For someone like him, those restaurants get his money.
We don't need the city to be telling us what to eat. The restaurants should cook what they cook, and the public will vote with their wallets and taste buds. It's not like anyone is forcing you to ingest this stuff. And it's not like being in the presence of someone eating this stuff is unhealthy (a la second-hand smoke).
If NYC keeps this up, will we eventually be screaming "Soylant Green..."?
At 11:39 PM,
Jen Reed said…
Eww, yuck! No soylant green. Ever. How does that even compare?
At 12:39 AM,
Anonymous said…
My point is that the city is beginning to control the the citizens' diets by saying what cooks can and can't use.
If you take this to the extreme, the city will be controlling food production altogether, which is how you get to the soylent yellow, soylent red, and disgustingly enough, soylent green!
At 12:43 AM,
Jen Reed said…
Yeah, I get your point. But soylent green is people!
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