October 2012 · Feature · Page 150

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The Hipstamatic team explores some of the not-so-juicy details about the food we eat in America.

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Every 3.6 Seconds One Person Dies of Starvation

Each day most of us enjoy delicious food. We certainly aren't dying of lack of food, but what exactly are we eating? Who's got your back when it comes to that yummy that you put in your tummy?

A Food Story from Hipstamatic

There are no seasons in the American supermarket. Now there are tomatoes all year round, grown halfway around the world, picked when it was green, and ripened with ethylene gas. Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notion of a tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

(Just a lil' Food for Thought)

From Snap No. 4, October 2012, pages 150–167. The text is set here as it was printed, so some names and links are of their time.

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