Friday Links
City’s Unemployment Rate Dips Again [NY Times] Parks Worker Raped in Bed Stuy Park [NY Times] Brooklyn Museum to Extend Hours in October [NY Times] Army Denies Crown Heights Rabbi Beard Waiver [WSJ] Blogger To Eat Only at Food Trucks for 30 Days [NY Daily News] Clerk at Midwood Liquor Store Gunned Down [NY Daily…
City’s Unemployment Rate Dips Again [NY Times]
Parks Worker Raped in Bed Stuy Park [NY Times]
Brooklyn Museum to Extend Hours in October [NY Times]
Army Denies Crown Heights Rabbi Beard Waiver [WSJ]
Blogger To Eat Only at Food Trucks for 30 Days [NY Daily News]
Clerk at Midwood Liquor Store Gunned Down [NY Daily News]
Bike Lock Vandal Defends His Actions [Brooklyn Paper]
Tall Ship Makes Visit To Red Hook [Brooklyn Eagle]
Flatbush Lane Closure To Last 5 Months Extra [AYR]
Homeowner Confidence in U.S. Market Drops [TRD]
Salmonella Detected In Brooklyn Alfalfa Sprouts [Gothamist]
Some Nice Fashion Photos from The Flea [MrNewton]
“If the only “restaurant” you’ve ever been in is a Macdo, what are you going to do when a boss/work colleague/potential connection asks you to have lunch at a real restaurant?”
Ask them if they have a “Happy Meal” special!
“Don’t let crumudgoness get in the way of a sound investment.”
Don’t let greed get in the way of your morals.
When I see how much money people around me waste on eating that crap (as well as every other fast food brand out there – we’ve got ’em all (almost), right here on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Flatbush Ave.), and the effect this lifestyle has on people, I want to cry.
It’s clear fast food operators prey on the lower classes, who are less-educated and have less access to information about how bad this stuff is for one, nutritionally and economically, but also socially – if a family’s only meals come from fast food (and there are many families that meet this description), when does it ever actually get to be a family? If the only “restaurant” you’ve ever been in is a Macdo, what are you going to do when a boss/work colleague/potential connection asks you to have lunch at a real restaurant?
Yes, dh, Grand Pa apparently soiled his depends as well!!!!
No one said anything about McDonald’s, Grand Pa. But i do own the stock. You should check it out…it yields more than you retirement CDs and the dividend is growing fast since it’s such a great global brand.
Don’t let crumudgoness get in the way of a sound investment.
very sandy in here
DIBS-
There is plenty of human manure that can be used for composting purposes. We can start with half of your postings on this blog.
No one is stopping you from eating at McDonalds, an activity that is definitely not sustainable, either environmentally or healthwise.
“no carts or stands” so in other words “I only want to visit the overly twee ridiculous hipster trucks that have opened in the last year.” (ya i know some of them are pretty good but still…)
“Do you know how utterly uneconomic is the process of organic farming?”
Stopping chopping down trees in rainforests is also uneconomic, but it doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea. Sometimes there are more important goals than money.
“Blogger To Eat Only at Food Trucks for 30 Days”
Sorry honey, but Morgan Spurlock beat you to it. Come up with something original.
On organic food:
Do you know how utterly uneconomic is
the process of organic farming? Quoting
from Prof. Robert Pararlbert, the B.F. Johnson
Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College who
is also an associate Professor at Harvard’s
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, on
organic farming. He wrote recently that:
“Less than 1 percent of American cropland is
under certified organic production. If the other
99 per cent were to switch to organic and had
to fertilize crop without any synthetic fertilizers
that would require a lot more composted
animal manure. To supply enough organic
fertiliser, the US cattle population would have
to increase roughly fivefold. And because
those animals would have to be raised
organically on forage crops, much of the land
in the lower 48 states would need to be
converted to pasture. Organic field crops also
have lower yields per hectare. If Europe tried
to feed itself organically, it would need an
additional 28 million hectares of crop land,
equal to all of the remaining forest cover in
France, Germany, Britain and Denmark
combined.”