Saturday, November 5, 2011

What's The Point?

Are we just scrambling for the things from our foods? Is there a point in which we just lose all love and respect for all these things, and completely miss the point? think this recipe, for instance:

Mmmm, Mmmm Good Ingredients

12 OUNCES EQUALS HOW MANY CUPS

6 slices whole wheat bread, finely chopped 4 ounces nondairy cheese, finely grated 12-ounce can spinach, drained 4 ounces seedless raisins 2 cups Great Northern beans, cooked and drained 4 tablespoons vegetable oil 6 ounces tomato paste 8 ounces powdered milk, nonfat/skim 6 ounces potato flakes, dehydrated

Can you guess where this method is from? How different are our free lives from this piquant recipe? It may be time to check ourselves. First, I learn from this recipe, that there may not be a dish that is "all-inclusive" consisting of all that we need in life. Secondly, I derive that a large quantum of community (and we will see how large soon) has started scrambling, come to be tired of the something, and completely missed the point. Many of us do not live in situations that would necessitate this recipe, but how many of us lead our lives based on a opinion like this regardless? Really, what is the point?

At first glance, this looks like a decent recipe. As you continue reading down you must be wondering, where in the world is this advent from and what is it supposed to be? How do you merge all these ingredients and get whatever eatable?

To talk some of your questions, this method comes from the Vermont agency of Corrections. Many other correctional facilities use this method called "Nutraloaf" (Greenwood). An record in the American Bar connection Journal explains that this meal is a "disciplinary measure" and it seems that is comes up mostly to punish wrong deeds of prisoners who commit a cut off infraction while in jail. The foods included are "nutritionally correct", but what is the problem?

Part of the point of this meal allows citizen to eat without utensils. And though the foods are all legitimate, there are a lot of starchy ingredients so it causes constipation. Last, it apparently has an "uncontroverted unpleasant taste".

How many of us are similarly punishing ourselves? I do not have a picture, but try to dream what this meal may look like. Eating in this manner seems to unmistakably miss the point of food. Actually, if you are unmistakably eat this way you may be violating your own Eighth Amendment and 14th Amendment rights. Prisoners that must eat this "bread-and-water diet" in correctional facilities over the country use these Constitutional arguments against their facilities. Approximately 15 states partake in this diet.

How different is your diet from this extreme, yet current example? Are you missing the point? Is it just food, or punishment?

Can you dream what this meal might look like? A July American Bar connection record details a prisoner who went on a hunger attack because of this diet. The prisoner, Elizabeth Johnson, proclaimed that "officials were serving her food contaminated with rotten vegetables and worms. Now can you envision this diet?

Understanding the point of this "bread-and-water diet" do we now have a greater respect for our own free diets? possibly this story might even invoke a sense of condolence and advocacy for the diets of prisoners as well. Again I ask, what's the point of food and are we living and eating with that point in mind?

What's The Point?

12 OUNCES EQUALS HOW MANY CUPS

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