{"id":257,"date":"2008-12-10T17:07:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T01:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2010-09-15T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T01:08:18","slug":"the-foie-gras-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-foie-gras-parable\/","title":{"rendered":"The foie gras parable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I loved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html\">this talk<\/a> from Blue Hill\u2019s Chef Dan Barber.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not convinced that what the organic\/ethical\/slow food movement advocates is the most sustainable way of producing food and feed the world. For example, I\u2019m not necessarily opposed to the use of technology to produce food, as long as it\u2019s done responsibly. It\u2019s the use of technology by profit driven food corporations what I\u2019m concerned about.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the talk made me feel saudades. I have this fantasy that one day I\u2019d go back to Spain, buy a small farm, and live in a rural home raising pigs, hens, and sheeps. I\u2019d then spend the rest of my days working in the farm, cooking, hiking in the area, and coding in my spare time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this talk from Blue Hill\u2019s Chef Dan Barber. I\u2019m not convinced that what the organic\/ethical\/slow food movement advocates is the most sustainable way of producing food and feed the world. For example, I\u2019m not necessarily opposed to the use of technology to produce food, as long as it\u2019s done responsibly. It\u2019s the use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludicon.com\/castano\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}