Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Philip Greenspun has a comment on the book “Omnivore’s Dilemma” up on his blog. Among minor tidbits that you knew were true, but all the cool people were doing it, so you shut the hell up:

“Whole Foods is a scam. “Organic beef” is corn-fed beef from cows that are crammed together in filthy feedlots. They might get lighter doses of antibiotics or skip out on eating protein derived from dead animals, but the steaks at Whole Foods don’t come from what you would recognize as a traditional farm. ”

and

“Farmed salmon is a scam. People fall in love with salmon because it has a lot of nutrients and omega-3 fatty acids. Most of those properties are side-effects of the natural life of a salmon. A farmed salmon that is fed on corn is literally “chicken of the sea” and there is no reason to believe it is more healthful than a corn-fed chicken.”