Comments on: Child Abuse

By: Ross A Lincoln

Ross A Lincoln — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:27:42 +0000

Er, That’s Justice dispensing. I just committed one of my most hated offenses. My apologies.

By: Ross A Lincoln

Ross A Lincoln — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:26:25 +0000

…be sure and point out that while a tit may be a little out-of-line…

Joe, tits are never, repeat, never out of line. Ever. Unless they’re Justice Dispencing tits, in which case they must be covered with curtains.

And Tom, I second your emotion.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:15:03 +0000

dAnimal-

i work an average of 12-14 hours a day and i still manage to cook 90% of my meals. sure i’m just a one person household, but it wouldn’t be much different (in time) to cook for 3-4.

i also read the labels of everything i eat, and try to eat organic almost exclusively.

cooking at home is ALWAYS better than eating out. cooking at home with fresh, organic ingredients is even better.

it’s not very difficult, it’s just that most people who don’t do this, think that it’s difficult. it’s like excercizing- when you don’t do it, it seems like a difficult thing to make time for, but once you start doing it regularly, it’s easy and doesn’t take much time out of your day.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:25:39 +0000

dAnimal, cooking at home with food produced by industrial agriculture isn’t much better, but our parents didn’t know that way back in the 1980s. Now there’s no excuse. Check out http://www.informedeating.org
also, hi Dan!

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:05:17 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this post overnight, and I do think that Alton Brown’s post is a tad naive. It should be obvious to any parent that fast food should not be the staple of their kids’ diets, but is cooking at home much better? I was raised by parents who meant well, and didn’t do a shitty job of feeding me, but at the same time, I was eating mostly canned fruit cocktail, drinking Crystal Light, eating pasta sauce out of a jar–we were still eating mass-produced foods from companies that didn’t care about us.

In the past, families could survive on only one income, but now it takes two parents working long hours to make ends meet, and sitting kids in front of a T.V. or cooking something pre-packaged is not just the easy way out–sometimes it’s the only solution in a stressful day where the schedule is tight.

I dunno, I’m not a parent, but I sympathize. I don’t think it’s wrong to demand that our products and television shows have some kind of standards, because they can’t spend hours every evening cooking from scratch and reading to their kids, even though they may wish they could.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:38:06 +0000

It seeems to me that there is some group somewhere that would be on record against this crap. Probably Commercial Alert, or some Nader group.
As usual with this sort of thing, Democrats are as guilty as Republicans, or as complicit anyway. Next time the FCC censors someone for showing a tit on television, be sure and point out that while a tit may be a little out-of-line, 5 hours of thirty-minute commercials aimed at those least able to distinguish fact from fantasy is f*cking obscene. And counting it as “public-service” is f*cking crazy.

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:58:16 +0000

I didn’t buy GI Joe because I think war should not be confused with fun time. I didn’t buy a Cabbage Patch doll because I didn’t think any child should be that desperate for a toy. I didn’t censor their environment too often because I thought we should be talking about all aspects of life. I raised them in the Unitarian tradition because I didn’t have all the answers and I had no problem with them thinking for themselves. I also taught them how to have a decent food fight and to cuss properly. Now they are terrific grown ups just as I knew they would be.

By: Tom S

Tom S — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 05:37:23 +0000

tom writes: “what the hell are kids today going to grow up to be? can it sink any lower?”

thehim writes: Yes, it can

A.Hitler wrote: Give me the nation’s children for ten years, and I will show you the face of the new era. Yeah, it can be a lot worse.

By: thehim

thehim — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:42:22 +0000

what the hell are kids today going to grow up to be? can it sink any lower?

Yes, it can

By: tom

tom — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:38:06 +0000

thank you…

now, why is it that whenever i go on a bitter-old-man rant about these exact same subjects, i get accused of being… well… a bitter old man.

having 5 nieces and nephews, all under the age of 11, is a hard thing to witness these days. it’s sad to see the kind of “culture” they’re growing up with these days. and it’s even sadder to see how cynical they are at such a very young age.

we were the generations that grew up to be slackers and gen-x. what the hell are kids today going to grow up to be? can it sink any lower?