Comments on: Bittman on What’s Wrong

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:49:32 +0000

I love TED Talks — and this one is as eye-opening as ever. The U.S. has food psychosis. The fact that people today don’t know how to recognize or prepare real food is leading to all sorts of health problems, from late-onset diabetes on one end of the spectrum to orthorexia at the other end of the spectrum.

By: Aimee Hess

Aimee Hess — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:49:29 +0000

Bittman’s talk is superb. Yet his message has been around for a long time (remember Adelle Davis anyone?) and, as a country, we appear to be deaf to this message. You cannot say you are not contributing to greenhouse gases if you still eat beef!!

By: Eric Suesz

Eric Suesz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:59:43 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out. I must have missed this when I was looking at the TED videos in the past. What a great talk. I’ve heard him, read him, and I never get tired of having him lay it all out in simple, commonsense terms.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:28:08 +0000

Yes. The amount of meat in a single Whole Foods meat case takes the bare resources to create it that could practically fill the store. Eating meat is simply a terrible allocation of resources.