Pot Luck: We're Famous In Italia!

Now who speaks Italian (4.00 / 3)

so they can tell us what they're saying about us?

Vote for yourself at www.ni4d.us!

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by: rossl @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 02:17:28 AM UTC

dinner tonight... (4.00 / 2)

broccoli, tomato, onion, basil, kalamata olives, olive oil, and whole wheat pasta. Pretty darn good.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 02:28:01 AM UTC

Nice! (4.00 / 2)

Pass some up this way?

:)

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 03:01:09 AM UTC

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So I'm watching this HBO special (4.00 / 2)

"Death on a Factory Farm." It has only just started and I'm already embarrassed that I am the same species as these people in the documentary.

A quote from the New York Times review.

The fact that these things don't upset everyone is the crux of the film, an animal-rights tract and legal drama that is primarily a snapshot of the American cultural divide. A defense lawyer tells the judge: "This case is actually about an animal-rights group from California coming to Wayne County, Ohio, trying to tell us how to run our farms. It's that simple." And you can't really argue with him.

There is going to be a trial in this docuentry and the subhumans do know how to find a lawyer;

The filmmakers would like to make Pete a hero, a kind of extreme athlete of muckraking undercover investigations, but he doesn't have the charisma for it. Once he obtains the video the association needs, though, the documentary becomes a satisfying account of the trial, with earnest prosecutors matched against wily defense lawyers who miss no chance to portray the activists as condescending, self-righteous outsiders. "We're not talking about Wilbur from 'Charlotte's Web,' " one of them says in summation.

I don't want to see when they hang downer pigs on a chain till they die but I hope I can continue to be an outsider in their eyes. That way I can live with myself.  

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by: Eddie C @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 02:40:41 AM UTC

wow, just wow (4.00 / 2)

i had to do research about this stuff for my book and what i read was so sick i didn't even write about most of it.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 02:58:09 AM UTC

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Congrats Jill, that's too cool! (4.00 / 3)

I'll see if my dad can do a rough translation. He speaks Friulani, which the dialect from the Friuli region of Italy and is actually closer to Spanish than Italian, but he can read some Italian too.

I took a year of Latin in highschool, which made reading and understanding Italian a snap, but I think my Latin is too rusty now. :-(


Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 02:56:26 AM UTC

Check out Eddie C's excellent dKos diary... (4.00 / 1)

link here...

I got down to the part about the deli, and decided that I'm gonna go make some popcorn before I read the rest.

Awesome!

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 03:53:28 AM UTC

Awesome:D (4.00 / 2)

I think they do read your site. Especially if they are talking about my piece on 3/11 about Michelle. Because that one was FrontPage but I can't find it through a google blog search, or even through regular google search.  

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by: Curtis Abbey @ Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 04:28:43 AM UTC