A New Year, 2010, the year of the Sci-Fi...

Its interesting to me, the years that have been marked in literature that, so far, I've lived through. 1984, 2001, and now (hopefully) 2010. Heinlein did the right thing in creating artificial/alternate timelines... Even though none of those books are really 'dated', because the small matter of dates aside, they are timeless... but I always thought we'd be somewhere else by 2010. It still seems, when I type it, to be a magical number.... I do feel that we ought to usher it in with a 'Zarathustra' theme... dah dah dah dahdum!

(I hated the movie version of 2010, though)

I always thought, by 2010, we'd have solved some of our issues. Instead, the oceans are overfished, we have horrible food poisoning from our food supply, we have incredible waste, but starving people around the globe... and its hard to solve. Some folks say to go vegan but does the impact of going vegan include the cost of manufacturing all that fake meat? The fact that the landscape of the Amazon rain forest is being deforested to grow soy? And PVC isn't really a healthy alternative to leather.

I liked most of this article, except for the foie gras portion.... I like foie gras. And I like veal, and tender little baby lambs. The thing is that if it is properly done, properly raised, its not torturing the animals.

I do agree with the no corn syrup thing. I just wish we could get back to a sane mentality about food. In Europe, you have a meal, you have a little bit of everything, and you have dessert. Or you have a small cookie with your coffee, a macaron, maybe. But its not a super-jumbo-huge cartwheel of a cookie.... Its not a plate of pasta that could serve four people...

So maybe, instead of going on a diet, or throwing away the gorgeous chocs you got for Christmas, you could just enjoy a little bit of something. Go for quality, health and pleasure.....