waste not

So this may stray a bit from Pollan's food rules, but in the spirit of the weekend and the declaration made in class last week that there are robots that can assess tastes and found human flesh to be like "pork," I couldn't resist.

http://www.rotten.com/library/death/cannibalism/

http://www.monstropedia.org/index.php?title=Cannibalism

I find the idea of the acquistion of a certain quality or power symbolically executed through the consumption of a specific body part or organ particularly intriguing. It definitely gives a new spin to the worn-out expression "you are what you eat." Or rather you become what you eat. If this were a true effect it (and who is to say it is not), I wonder qualities would be inherited from the eating of a root vegetable. Or the flowering part of a plant (broccoli). I think I am going to experiment this week and attempt to only eat foods I would "like to be." I don't imagine enjoying being "mechanically separated" as is the chicken ingredient of a Slim Jim, nor stamped into shape by molds, presses, intense heat and steam, being mass produced with millions of others that look "just like me."

In a weird kind of inverse of previous attempts in class to avoid anthropomorphism (by Abbey, for example), I will personify my foods. And then decide if I still want those Cheerios.