Oh Jesus

God Has A Food Fetish

“He’s got a spoon full of Jesus.”

“…but how ‘bout the Virgin Mary in some salsa?”

“Is it a holy image, or a bucket of filth?”

“There’s a frying pan Jesus, from Texas.”

“This isn’t the only Jesus cheeto.”

“His name shall be Cheesus.”

“It’s a sign that people who ride motorcycles should believe in God.”

“Have you found Jesus in food?”

“Can you see Jesus in the sonogram?”

“I can see some John Lennon in there, but I can see Jesus as well.”

Two Heads Are Better Than One

And two hearts are better than one. And in the case of food safety, two regulators are better than one, especially since one of them is not really a regulator, but the one being regulated.

From Bad Cow Disease by Paul Krugman:

Lately, however, there always seems to be at least one food-safety crisis in the headlines — tainted spinach, poisonous peanut butter and, currently, the attack of the killer tomatoes. The declining credibility of U.S. food regulation has even led to a foreign-policy crisis: there have been mass demonstrations in South Korea protesting the pro-American prime minister’s decision to allow imports of U.S. beef, banned after mad cow disease was detected in 2003.

How did America find itself back in The Jungle?

Read more here.

Speculators Blamed

From Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis by Geoffrey Lean:

Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry.