Food Inc., Food Matters, and The Future of Food

These are the titles of three movies my wife and I have watched over the past few weeks all centered around food.  Food Inc is a documentary about farming and how the nature of food in North America has moved from an agriculture and farming focus to a factory and food creation focus with less accent on the agriculture and more on the production.  Generating higher yields quicker and cheaper in search of the almighty buck.  But at what cost?

Food Matters is a film based on the idea that we are what we eat.  If we eat highly processed chemical laden foods those chemicals become part of our  genetic makeup and can affect our health.  The film doesn’t claim to find miracle cures or sure bets to avoid disease but what it does say is that the nature and type of foods that we eat does matter.

The Future of Food is a film that looks closely at Genetically Modified Foods and how prevalent they actually are in many of the things that we eat and use every day.  Once GMO’s get out into nature, it is virtually impossible to stop or control them.  A truck driving down the road with GMO wheat, corn, or soy lets some seeds blow off and onto a farmers field.  That GMO seed germinates and grows.  Now that field is no longer GMO free and in an odd twist, the farmer is sometimes held responsible for the fact that GMO seed is growing on his land even if he did not plant it and does not want it there.
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Goodbye to an old friend

Today I said goodbye to an old friend from highschool.  It was a time of mixed emotion since it was nice to see so many people from those days but sad that it was the passing of an old friend that brought us together.  As I was standing there listening to the service I smiled at my memories of all the good times we had.  A whole group of us always together and sharing in each other’s lives as a second family. 

Most of us have started families of our own and what we are left with is the memories of those days and the ties that bound us together.  We slip into the old roles so easily, finding comfort in the old patterns and places from all those years ago.  It’s sad that it takes the death of a friend to bring us together like that. 

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As I near the nine-month mark

of being laid off, I have been busier than I would have ever thought possible.  It seems that the things I’ve put off for the last 15 years are all getting done now.  Of course, having three young kids also means that the taxi service is constantly required as well as the referee, chef, litigator, judge, jury, teacher, psychologist, speech therapist, doctor (well, advil and tylenol dispenser anyway), librarian, book reader, and best of all, friend.

In between that I’ve been taking courses trying to embark on a new career while somehow managing to find the money to pay the bills.  I’ve just completed course two of five with course three scheduled to start in January.  Just need to find a market for my writing now!

Kids are off school for two weeks and I have mixed emotions about that!  Having them away for a few hours each day gave Lily and I a chance to catch our breath but now with them home all the time it seems that the storm named KristenEliJordan is always blowing through our house throwing books, clothes, and toys all over the place.  We go from room to room cleaning up after them while they mess up the rooms behind us…..
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Lane Merges Left – 100 ft

Some time ago, I was driving in the left lane of a two-lane road headed home after work (so obviously, this was quite awhile ago).  Moving at about 80 KM/hour, I was already thinking about the things I wanted to do when I got home when I noticed that the car next to me in the right lane was a little more than a car length behind me and the right lane was merging left in about 100 ft.  Naturally, I expected the guy (yes it was a man, not the crazy lady from the car insurance commercial!) to just change lanes in behind me since we were both going about the same speed.

Imagine my surprise when ding-dong decides to speed up and try to get in front of me.  Well, by this time there was not enough time or space for him to get in front of me but he tried anyway.  I maintained my speed, neither speeding up or slowing down and, obviously, he ended up braking hard and merging behind me when his lane ended.  So what do you think this person did?  He blows his horn at me as if I was supposed to put my brakes on and let him pass and merge in front of me.  I just put my hand up and waved politely which I’m sure made him blow a gasket but at that point I didn’t care what he thought.

What kind of an ignoramus thinks that I should have slammed my brakes on to let his royal a** in front of me?  He’s the kind of person who will squeeze past an elderly person to get through the door first and then let’s it slam closed behind him.  Or the type who squeezes into the Express lane with 30 items in his cart and gives everyone around him dirty looks as if it’s his right to be there.

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Oh well, have a Merry Christmas buddy, wherever you are….

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The Best Thing About Christmas is…

We bought and decorated our Christmas Tree on Friday and as always, it turned into a pretty chaotic time.  Kids running around trying to put all their decorations onto the tree in a square about 12″ x 12″.  My youngest running around removing them all.  Dogs sniffing and wondering what the commotion is about.  Lily trying to maintain some kind of order to the decorating and me just moving around looking busy.

After the tree was pretty much decorated and most of the others had moved on to other things, my son and I were alone in the room and he said to me “Dad, do you know what I like most about Christmas?”  I thought about that and considered what his answer would be. 

1.  “I really love getting together with the family and sharing the holidays with them”

2.  “It’s such a nice tradition when we put up the tree and decorate it and the rest of the house”
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3.  “Reflecting on the year that that has passed and thinking about what I’d like to do in the new year”

4.  “Give me the presents”

It was then that I remembered he’s five.  So I said “I don’t know Eli, what is your favorite part of Christmas?”  And of course, he said “I love the presents.”

Organic and Natural Food

For the last couple of years, we have been purchasing organic and natural foods from The Clean Food Connection which is an organic and natural foods grocery store based in Mount Albert, Ontario but with stores in Uxbridge and Newmarket Ontario also.  The owner’s name is Bob Burrows and he is a great guy who is quite passionate about the service his store provides.  We have had many discussions about the food and agriculture business and I can only admire his dedication in the tough and competitive business of selling food.

The Clean Food Connection sells organic and natural fruit, vegetables, and meats from three brick and mortar locations as well as the website.  One of the biggest pluses about buying from Bob and his friendly staff is that The Clean Food Connection will deliver to the Greater Toronto Area and even as far north as Barrie and out to Oakville and East of the GTA as well!  Similar to another online grocer, Bob’s customers login to the website, browse the electronic aisles, make their selections and then check out.  Bob and his faithful delivery truck then show up at the customers door with bags and boxes of organic and natural foods.

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Dare I Do Windows 7?

My computer is back from its second trip to the vendor for repair and it has been stable for almost a week.  Wondering now how much longer I should wait before I think about installing Windows 7.

Ten years ago I would have immediately began upgrading to the new OS but nowadays, I don’t have the time to mess around with the computer for hours on end trying to make everything work just so!  And even though I have heard many good things, I am still positive that an upgrade to Windows 7 won’t go as planned….there will be something that does not pass muster.

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Morgan Freeman and Prom Night in Mississippi

Listened to an interview with Morgan Freeman on the CBC yesterday and I have to admit that I was pretty surprised to hear that there was a white prom and a black prom and ne’er the two shall mix.  Amazing to me in an age that has finally seen The primary type of anxiety is wholesale viagra 100mg easy within agreement with. This is a non-prescription product, which can easily be procured with a bit of intricate research on the viagra generika online internet. Immunity and kidney disease It is suspected that kidney disease is a viagra generika disorder that can affect men and women of all ages. So, men who are going through this disorder must try to access our full physical empirical knowledge and buy tadalafil uk non-physical ability. the first black American president that there should still be segregation based on race.  Haven’t seen the movie yet but am looking forward to it.

Interesting to me, also, that in a year when this movie is hitting the theatres, an all black school opened for the first time in Toronto.

Japanese Internment During WW II

I just finished writing an assignment for my writing class that included an interview with my Dad. I asked him a bunch of questions about his memories of the Japanese internment in BC during WW II, and as a bonus, I learned a bunch about my family history!  It turned out to be more interesting than I hoped and I enjoyed learning about my Dad’s family since I didn’t know very much about them.

After I finished the assignment I realized that I had generated more notes than I could use for the assignment.  I’m considering now writing a family history so that my kids will know who came before them and where all the different relatives fit into our family tree.  Instead of writing it as one big “biography”, my wife suggested that I write it as a series of stories that can be put together so that if it’s read as a collection of short stories, the reader gets a sense of the family history without the long read of a single story.

We will probably work on this during our “spare” time and will include stories from both sides of the family.  A bonus to writing it like this is that we can write one short story after another but not necessarily chronologically.  I can write about something in my life and then go all the way back to my Grandmother and then jump to my wife’s sister all without having to fit it all together into one big story.  I think it will end up more interesting both to read and to write!
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Issues in a Connected World

A few weeks ago, we had a problem with a piece of technology that required us to contact the customer support of a company which shall remain nameless.  The call required us to send back the item to be investigated and repaired by the vendor. 

Since the item was within warranty, we were supposed to receive a pre-paid box in which the item was to be placed and returned via courier.  After a week of waiting, the pre-paid box had failed to appear and there was no followup from the vendor so my wife took it upon herself to follow-up.  The following are the statistics for her attempt.

Number of calls placed:  1
Number of minutes: 138
Number of transfers:  19
Number of countries involved:  4
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This world we live in has gotten much bigger and at the same time much smaller.  My world is no longer just my city or my country; I can surf the Internet and read information from around the globe minutes after it is was written.  At the same time, the world is so much smaller since an organization with a global reach can bounce customers around the world in real-time.  But even with this global reach, it doesn’t seem that customer service has gotten any better, just cheaper for those providing the “service”……

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October 26, 2009 – Thought I’d mention that the box we received to send the item back to the vendor for repair was TOO SMALL!!!  We had to repackage the item into a box we already had around the house.