My Butt Wont Fit into the Organic Chair!!!
Tuesday. Debbie came back home excited and said with Columbus ethusiasm "Honey I found a wonderful place for you to read! Do you wanna come with me and see?" I went with her few blocks away from my home and saw this small store named "Green Bean Cafe". I went inside and we sat and ordered some food and I started reading. The food came and it was everything organic, vegan (for my lactose intolerant gut) and cheap. Just $4.50 for each.
WOW you could get a cheap and healthy food in New York City? So my mind shifted to my favorite botanist Michael Pollan's book "Omnivore's Dilemma" which I read during September 2007.
I loved reading all of Pollan's book. His approach to food is not of an activist but of a naturalist. This one in particular when it talked about the polyfarm. The author visited the farms which raise pigs, poultry, cows under one roof. The beauty is all of them done in natural cylces without using tons of antibiotics on them and medicines to make them ooze more milk. For example: The farm people allow the pigs on the grass and its excretions are left there in the grass and them later chickens are brought there which could eat the bugs formed on this excretion (so organic food for chicken :-))
That is why this chickens have healthy eggs as well. Also cows are let to graze in the evening when the glucose level in grass is high iorder to withheld night cold weather. Also the cows' excretion on the grass (manure) lets the grass grow. So they move the cows to different sectors of the farm to avoid over grazing and protecting soil erosion and giving time for grass to grow again. You have to coordinate in such a way too tall grown grass is not good as like too short grass. It is amazing they use a number of natural methods in these farms to get the best out of nature without artificial man made stuff getting in to the cycle.
Doing all this hard work by the farmers to get the best milk, eggs, poultry and meat.Still I get to pay a low charge to sit in this cafe to eat this healthy food. WOW. Robert Reich's book "Supercapitalism" came to my mind which I read during last year as well. Reich was the Labor Secretary in Bill Clinton's Administration and was Clinton's professor in Yale Law School. In this book he mentioned about the corporate giant stores taking over the smaller ones by mass production and supercapitalism. People like us have a moral obligation to protect the small stores like "Green Bean Cafe" especially when they are good. Otherwise your whole neighborhood would be designed by corporatism which has used the big chain stores to gulp the small neighborhood ones.
Also Reich mentioned about corporatism beoming a leviathan crushing the skeletons of democracy. So I decided to give them good business regularly. But after sitting in the cafe for more than one hour I found I couldn't sit anymore and wondered what it is . Well the chairs' are designed for itty-bitty butts who come and eat this organic food. Wheraes my 235 lbs body wouldn't get small how much ever organic food I eat and especially my butt ! forget about it. Now I am in a limbo of satisfying my organic tastes, moral conscience one side and my butts longing for a comfortable seat on the other side. We would see which will win and whether I would go there again.
WOW you could get a cheap and healthy food in New York City? So my mind shifted to my favorite botanist Michael Pollan's book "Omnivore's Dilemma" which I read during September 2007.
I loved reading all of Pollan's book. His approach to food is not of an activist but of a naturalist. This one in particular when it talked about the polyfarm. The author visited the farms which raise pigs, poultry, cows under one roof. The beauty is all of them done in natural cylces without using tons of antibiotics on them and medicines to make them ooze more milk. For example: The farm people allow the pigs on the grass and its excretions are left there in the grass and them later chickens are brought there which could eat the bugs formed on this excretion (so organic food for chicken :-))
That is why this chickens have healthy eggs as well. Also cows are let to graze in the evening when the glucose level in grass is high iorder to withheld night cold weather. Also the cows' excretion on the grass (manure) lets the grass grow. So they move the cows to different sectors of the farm to avoid over grazing and protecting soil erosion and giving time for grass to grow again. You have to coordinate in such a way too tall grown grass is not good as like too short grass. It is amazing they use a number of natural methods in these farms to get the best out of nature without artificial man made stuff getting in to the cycle.
Doing all this hard work by the farmers to get the best milk, eggs, poultry and meat.Still I get to pay a low charge to sit in this cafe to eat this healthy food. WOW. Robert Reich's book "Supercapitalism" came to my mind which I read during last year as well. Reich was the Labor Secretary in Bill Clinton's Administration and was Clinton's professor in Yale Law School. In this book he mentioned about the corporate giant stores taking over the smaller ones by mass production and supercapitalism. People like us have a moral obligation to protect the small stores like "Green Bean Cafe" especially when they are good. Otherwise your whole neighborhood would be designed by corporatism which has used the big chain stores to gulp the small neighborhood ones.
Also Reich mentioned about corporatism beoming a leviathan crushing the skeletons of democracy. So I decided to give them good business regularly. But after sitting in the cafe for more than one hour I found I couldn't sit anymore and wondered what it is . Well the chairs' are designed for itty-bitty butts who come and eat this organic food. Wheraes my 235 lbs body wouldn't get small how much ever organic food I eat and especially my butt ! forget about it. Now I am in a limbo of satisfying my organic tastes, moral conscience one side and my butts longing for a comfortable seat on the other side. We would see which will win and whether I would go there again.