Lady Gaga vs. Breast Milk Ice Cream

      

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So, today, as searching the web, I happened to stumble upon the topic of breast milk ice cream. A London ice cream parlor called Icecreamists has come out selling exactly what it sounds like, ice cream made from women's breast milk. According to a reporter of NY Daily News, "at least 15 mothers have volunteered to donate their breast milk." The stuff does not come cheap either, selling for a whopping $23 per serving.

Before you are overwhelmed with disgust, consider the arguement of Mirium Simun, a New York designer interested in sustainable food systems and the human body, who debuted a line of breast milk cheese. "Why is cow or goat milk not disgusting? Vegans tend to get this pretty quickly," she said. "And if it is disgusting - well, does that mean we should start thinking differently about all the other ways we use the human body - to make wigs, to transfuse blood, to be surrogate mothers?"

Despite what you may think, it may be worth the adventure... but Lady Gaga will have none of it. Gaga and her team are threating to sue Icecreamists for using part of her name to sell their unusual frozen treat. Gaga's attorney sent a letter to the London shop asking them to remove the 'Gaga' from the name of the ice cream, adding a personal touch as he called their concoction "deliberately provocative and, to many people, nausea-inducing."

Icreamist owner Matt O'Connor is sure he will eventually win the battle against Lady Gaga, and claims that they got the name not from her, but from the reference of one of the first discernable phrases that comes out of a baby's mouth. And to counter Gaga's last attack, O'Connor responds, "As for her assertion that our product is distasteful, perhaps she should reflect on her blood-spurting performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, or the fact she wears clothes fabricated from the flesh of dead animals.

This is going to be quite a battle, and I'll keep my eye out for who comes out on top. In the mean time, I think I will personally be staying away from any breast milk icecream. But hey, all power to you if you have the guts to try it, or find a place that sells it at that.

If you are interested, please visit these sites to learn more. They really are very interesting!
Article about Gaga's lawsuit
Article about Baby Gaga ice cream
The official blog of the Icrecreamists  <---- This one is particularly intriguing! Please take a look :)

Subway Confession!

According to the Green Eggs Will Blog for food, Subway's meat is a mystery! A Subway employee posted the following on the blog concerning the truth about Subway's meat:

"I am a Subway employee, the smell comes from the fresh baked bread. That is the only good thing I can say about it. Where the food comes from is absolutely a mystery. I've been doing research for weeks, trying to trace back the meat especially.....nothing.

If you don't have a problem eating processed meat and pesticide covered vegetables (they aren't washed very well), then Subway is the place for you. As an employee though, I would suggest not eating there."







Once I read this, it shocked me on one hand, but on the other I feel like this is how all fast food restaurants operate now. It is getting harder and harder to trust the food you consume! Maybe moving to a farm like the Kingsolvers (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle) is the only option.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Post 1)

Are you being called home? Or maybe called away from the city life? Here in Atlanta almost all of our food is shipped here in a "refrigerated module from somewhere far away", just how the food was shipped to Tucson; a reason the Kingsolvers were being called home to the farm. Our every ounce of water is being pumped " from a nonrenewable source--a fossil aquifer that is dropping so fast, sometimes the grond crumbles." It seems that city life, far from the farms, bring alot of  sanitation and health problems to the residents. Partly because her husband and family had called farms the homes, Kingsolver was called back to live on a farm to get away from problems like these. She wanted to reside in a place where she could grow crops, count on rainfall, and produce her own food she knew was safe to consume. She didn't want to be eating food that had travelled further than the average American does on their yearly vacations. Kingsolver mentions that we stick to our food habits and we still drink the water we are told is ok to drink but will kill fish is fish swim in it! Kingsolver decided to no longer be stubborn and move to a farm! Keep reading our blogs to find out about the Kingsolvers' move to the farm.


Anne Lloyd Bean

Contents of Our Food

David Zinczenko wrote this article about some shocking ingredients in our daily food consumption.
Chicken McNugget:
This alone contains seven ingredients and and most of them having nothing to do with chicken or bread. The chicken contains water, wheat starch, dextrose, safflower oil, and sodium phosphates along with “autolyzed yeast extract.” Not a lot of chicken in that CHICKEN McNugget. The breading also contains another twenty ingredients. But surprisingly Zinczenko says that this is pretty natural compared to other fast foods.

Wendy's Frosty:
The simple milk and ice cream shake has been broken down into multiple ingredients such as guar gum, cellulose gum, and carrageenan. The new Coffee Toffee Twisted Frosty has even a bigger list of ingredients with the ingredient coffee towards the bottom. Something tells me we aren't actually eating what we think.

Filet-O-Fish:
Our traditional Filet-O-Fish is made from hoki, a gnarly, crazy-eyed fish. This fish then has coat of batter, a bath of oil, a squirt of tartar added to it. But recently the hoki has not been used because of the extreme amount used. McDonald's is now using a different fish such as whitefish like Alaskan pollock. But you probably won't even notice.

Salami Sandwich:
Genoa salami, like you’d get at Subway, contains both cow and pig. But the process to how salami is made is even more revolting. It is made from slaughterhouse leftovers that are gathered using “advanced meat recovery." This is a mechanical process that strips the last remaining bits of muscle off the bone so nothing is wasted. Then lactic acid is added, the waste product produced by bacteria in the meat. Then you add all the spices and you get fifteen ingredients in your salami! Yum...

All of our food has secret ingredients in it but you can follow David Zinczenko in his bookEat This, Not That! Here is another link associated with that. And it's not just men's health, if you scroll down towards the bottom on the right there is a box for women's health as well.

Immaculate Organic Cookies... Yumm!

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So since my mom broke her leg skiing, my family has been getting a meal here and there from friends and neighbors. The other night, our neighbors, the Bushes (Kristian Bush of Sugarland), made us a great dinner. Not only was it delicious, but it was also all ORGANIC!

Kristian Bush is the guy on the right! 

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The highlight of the meal was dessert, of course. The supply of brilliant organics ended with delectable, all-natural chocolate chip cookies made by the Immaculate Baking Co, an amazing company based out of NC. Made with organic flour and sugar, these suckers can be popped in the oven for a good 8 minutes for a healthier sweet!

Browsing the company's site, I found out a few other cool things. First of all, they are the current holders of the Guinness World Record for the world's biggest cookie. The cookie, at 102 ft wide and over 40,000 pounds, blew the last record of 80 ft out of the park! After having the largest cookie, the company decided to try for the largest bake sale, as they have teamed up with Cookies for Kids' Cancer in order to raise awareness and funds for pediactric cancer.

Check the two links I put above as well as Immaculate Baking Co.'s main webpage to learn more about this great passage to eating and buying smarter food!

UGA going Organic?



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The University of Georgia is starting a new program for undergraduates this fall that will teach them about local food.  The courses will be offered to every student even those with English, Math, or other majors not related to horticulture.  The University is trying to give students the oppurtunity to learn about the production of local foods.  The students in the program will work in community gardens around Athens.  In 2010 students created an on campus garden called the UGArden.  Students are becoming very interested in local and organic food which is a good sign for the future of agriculture in our country.  You can read more about this new program here.

BK EXPOSED: Part 2

Here is the second video... ewww!