New Food Reality Show Suggestions

by: Jill Richardson

Sat Mar 13, 2010 at 00:30:24 AM PST

With this in mind, here are a few shows I'd like to see in the near future:

Survivor: In this show, the CEO of a company gets to experience the food poisoning his company's products give his customers. The most popular episode would no doubt be when Stewart Parnell, CEO of Peanut Corporation of America, eats his own tainted peanut butter and suffers from salmonella.

Farm Swap: Where an unsustainable farmer trades farms with a sustainable farmer. Imagine what would happen when a guy who farms 2000 acres of corn and soy in Iowa (and maybe owns a nice hog confinement with about 8000 hogs to go with it) trades farms for a week with someone who grows 40 acres of organic veggies and raises chickens on pasture.

Undercover Farmworker: In which people who eat foods go undercover and work in the fields alongside migrant workers picking tomatoes or strawberries. A spin-off version of this show could also feature international locations in which consumers go undercover among coffee and cocoa growers. Sadly, it would probably be illegal to have American children who love chocolate go undercover among child slaves on cacao plantations in Africa.

Ultimate School Lunch Makeover: In each episode, a school cafeteria that serves vile, unhealthy food will get a makeover to serve healthy, delicious, sustainable food to the kids.

Trading Lobbyists: In this show, two opposing sides of an issue will trade lobbyists (and lobbying budgets) for one week. Biotech and pesticide companies will find themselves stuck with no money and nothing more than a few homemade websites and blogs, while sustainable food advocates will suddenly find themselves armed with millions of dollars, corporate jets, the best PR firms in the nation, a full team of skilled lobbyists, access to powerful politicians, and front groups through which they can coordinate their campaigns.

Private Citizen George Bush's Wednesday Schedule Released

by: Jill Richardson

Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 14:04:12 PM PST

8:45 AM: "Make coffee for Laura in hopes of some long-overdue quality time."

8:47 AM: "Call Dick for permission to use the half and half instead of the skim milk.

Ask if I can have 2 eggs instead of the 1 I usually got at the White House.

Also ask Dick if he thinks the brown shoes with the Lee jeans and the studded belt projects that all-important 'still-virile, used to be The Decider' look."

9:00 AM: "TiVO The View."

McCain Proposes New Food Group (Satire)

by: OrangeClouds115

Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 12:18:34 PM PDT

That's why I'm announcing my plan to restructure the USDA's Nutritional Pyramid by adding a new food group that includes pathogenic bacteria. I think it'll be a big hit with the agribusiness and and the food services industries. E. coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease* scares have really cut into their profits in recent years. My plan will put an end to their fiscal pain. They'll contribute through the nose to get that kind of protection.

By making pathogenic bacteria a food group, I will correct an unintended consequence of my party's deregulation of the food industry. Our intentions were good--free business from the socialistic shackles of food safety inspection--but in our zeal to let the free market determine what pathogenic bacteria we should ingest, we simply overlooked the fact that much of the public believes that it's bad to eat something that will make you vomit, give you diarrhea, and possibly kill you. We need to change that perception. My plan will do that.

Check out the rest to read what Joe Lieberman had to say about this.