A must see movie... Food, Inc.
A few of the XFit ladies got together for dinner and a movie last night. We had wine and a lite dinner at Taps in Tampa. I had an absolutely marvelous crab-stuffed portobello mushroom. The stuffing included bits of asparagus and horseradish!!
A few of the XFit ladies got together for dinner and a movie last night. We had wine and a lite dinner at Taps in Tampa. I had an absolutely marvelous crab-stuffed portobello mushroom. The stuffing included bits of asparagus and horseradish!!
Gina, Sam, Lisa, Jordan, Barbara, and Carolyn
After dinner, we walked around the corner to the historic Tampa Theater. "... the most elegant place in which you will ever order Goobers"
Food, Inc. was a very informative movie. It educates you about what goes on behind the scenes in the food industry and pretty much what they do to place your health at risk for their opportunity to make a buck. They touched briefly on slaughter houses, but not to the gory extent. But they even showed chickens being killed at an organic farm. It's never nice to see this sort of thing and yet, the organic environment was far more appealing.
Food, Inc. was a very informative movie. It educates you about what goes on behind the scenes in the food industry and pretty much what they do to place your health at risk for their opportunity to make a buck. They touched briefly on slaughter houses, but not to the gory extent. But they even showed chickens being killed at an organic farm. It's never nice to see this sort of thing and yet, the organic environment was far more appealing.
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After they showed the hen houses operated by Tyson and Perdue, I can't imagine eating one of their chickens. They grow the chickens so fast that their skeletal and respiratory systems can't keep up. The chickens can walk only a few steps before they collapse!
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But it's not just the meat. They made a clear point that today's tomato is really just the idea of a tomato and has nothing close to the nutritional value that a tomato provided 30 years ago.
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The cool thing is that they point out that every time you shop, for every item that gets scanned, you are voting. Do you want junk or do you want nutritional food? Then the vendors must listen to the consumers. WalMart has already answered the publics demand for organic foods and has contracts in place with Stonybrook Farm out of Loudon Virginia. Kudo's to WalMart!!
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This morning I just knew that I wouldn't be able to run with Dawn to XFit so I jumped in the car and drove over and picked her up. My legs are still so sore, and with Back Squats as the WOD today, I knew I'd be in trouble.
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I did the warmup (minus the pull-ups and dips). Then, while Dawn did back squats, I practiced pull-ups and dips then took some time to really stretch my legs.
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Swimming this evening should really help to loosen up the legs so that I can get back to my marathon training!
Okay, I'm definitely going to go see this movie! I've been thinking about the idea of grass-fed beef for quite a while now, and I have also been enjoying my own home-grown tomatoes instead of paying exorbitant prices for mealy, tasteless ones from the grocery store. We have lots of farmers markets around here, too, and I try to hit them when I can.
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