{"id":790,"date":"2011-01-09T22:04:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T02:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=790"},"modified":"2011-01-09T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T02:04:59","slug":"the-eggs-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"The Eggs of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie and I were watching some weirdo Swedish cooking show on PBS.  If you&#8217;ve ever seen one of these, you know the genre.  They set up an outdoor kitchen and cook lots of strange seafood and root vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>In this show the lovely blond host was cooking an egg dish.  She beats the eggs up, adds a little salt, and then grabs a spoon and tastes them, &#8220;needs more salt!&#8221;  Debbie and I said at the same moment, &#8220;did she just taste raw eggs???&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which got me to thinking. When did raw eggs become poison here?  <\/p>\n<p>That little episode was a harsh and unfortunately accurate condemnation of our culture and agriculture.   We&#8217;re afraid out of all proportion of the wrong things, and we we&#8217;ve built an agri-industrial complex that values economic efficiency above all.  Salmonella in the eggs?  Just wash them, refrigerate them, wash them again, and never, never, ever, eat them raw.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve lost our way, but the current popularity of local food gives me hope that we&#8217;re turning in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie and I were watching some weirdo Swedish cooking show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}