Sierra Club Radio has a food-centric heavy lineup this week (MP3), kicking off with journalist Eric Schlosser, followed by tips for choosing nontoxic cookware and an interview with John Cloud, the reporter who did the recent cover story for Time about whether local was the new organic.
After he gets through explaining for the 349th time how “Fast Food Nation” the book became a fictionalized movie, Schlosser has some interesting things to say about cloned food, and how like fast food it represents the crushing “pressure for uniformity and conformity in society.” He’s very opposed to the approval of meat and dairy from cloned animals from a safety perspective, since the technology is only 10 years old, and suspicious of the FDA’s motives, since it’s “completely in bed with big business.” He’s getting involved in the effort to make sure that cloned food is at least labeled.
And guess what? There is one fast-food joint he occasionally eats at. But you’ll have to listen to the clip to find out where.
Thanks to an e-mail from a friend of a friend, I also checked out B-Side Radio’s March 6 food show, and found it tasty. The segments include the Gastronauts, a group of extreme eaters in New York City; a guy who’s desperately trying to gain weight for a stage role; and my favorite, a personal exploration of what the citrus freeze did to a small town.
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