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Weekly food thoughts 01/21/2010 (broth in can part 2)

First full disclosure, I never bought a can of soup, dont ask why but even before I "knew better" I always thought it was easier to make it ... anyway this explain that I am totally facinated by that ingredients list ... so I went back to the store, with my little pad and a pen and yes they look at me funny !!! 
The ingredients I forgot last time : chicken broth (water, chicken stock) !! They are selling chicken broth made with chicken broth !!!! hahahah ... I wonder if that chicken broth was also made with chicken broth ... you know dilution like in homeopatie ... the more you dilute the stronger ... lol ...
but then next to it was that cute plastic box containing cubes : beef stock.
Ingredients : salt, sugar, MSG, maltodextrin, garlic powder, onion powder, palm oil, wheat flavor, spices, citric acid, caramel, paprika, turmeric, corn starch.
You know how labelling works ?? the most comes first, here it is salt !!! I made sure I did not forget the beef or anything closely related to beef ... like beef bones for example. They sell beef stock that does not contain any beef !!! 
On my way home I was thinking it would be funny to reconstruct backward the food that is out there ... like my chickens: once it is in your plate, we could rewind and we would end up pretty much with a chicken, a little crooked but a chicken, now let's start to rewind a beef stock that does not contain beef to start with ... or the chicken of the chicken broth ... Imagine that one little chicken in a thousand gallons of water ... lol ...
The other day I was watching a re-run of Martha and Michael Polland was on, he said something that I liked very much: you can vote 3 times a day with your fork !!!
Another news this week Forbes Magazine named Monsanto company of the year 2009 !!! what are those people thinking ??? Time to vote I guess ...
Hereafter a great article about organic from you dont know where :
http://vtdigger.org/2009/12/02/your-organic-food-made-in-china-part-2/
Another good reason to come to the market, we may not offer everything you need but at least you know where it comes from ....

See you Saturday .. even if you dont need anything, come by, grab a coffee, look around, chat with your farmers ... we love to chat ...


The ducks playing in the mud this morning ...