Food Security Carnival Discussion Post.

[commodorified]

Solicit or offer ideas, cheer each other on, ask for or offer data or resources, team up and do a group-authored post or a mini-carnival cluster of posts, find a beta, be a beta ...

I would like to say: I am not at all worried about avoiding duplication, and suggest that nobody else be either.

If eight people do posts on How To Cook Eggs, they will all be different, they will all be right and useful, and each of them will be somebody's absolute most useful and favourite post of the whole carnival.

Carry on!

Comments

[commodorified]

That would be PERFECT.

That would be so perfect that the fact that you feel like you had to ask makes me wonder if I did a really bad job writing that section of the announcement; I am new to this talking about food in a broader sense, and very much learning on the fly.

D'you mind taking a look at the post again and seeing where, to you, it does and does not convey BOTH "please don't tell people what they "need to" do and how they "need to" do it to meet YOUR standards", AND "if you know a way to make being bombarded with those messages - as we all are - easier and less damaging PLEASE SHARE OMG"?

[niqaeli]

The part that tripped me up, personally, was: (don't) ...Write a post about your (weight-loss) diet or about calorie restriction or about avoiding entire classes of foods.

Which, I am down with the sentiment entirely because honestly I can't deal with calorie restriction or weight-loss diet talk without either having rage blackouts or a panic attack, at this point. But I wasn't sure if talking about navigating a food restriction like that was getting too close to avoiding entire classes of foods? Some food restrictions pretty much ARE, well, avoiding an entire class of food.

[commodorified]

Ah, gotcha. Yeah I can think how to edit that, I think.

ETA: It now reads:

-- Write a post about your (weight-loss) diet or about calorie restriction or about how everybody's life can be made perfect and shiny by us all avoiding entire classes of foods.

Better? I mean I was thinking largely of, you know, Atkins, etc pushers.

[niqaeli]

Yes! Definitely gets across the intended meaning, I think.

(Atkins pushers drive me nuts, and I actually am, personally, healthier by eating in a manner not dissimilar; I happen to recognise that my body is a peculiar snowflake all its own, much like everyone else's though. This is also the reason I've never gone looking around the blogs about Primal because from what I know of them I will want to murder people in three seconds flat which is a pity because it sounds like some of their stuff could be useful to me. *sigh*)

[commodorified]

Yeah. Almost as much as I am looking forward to the carnival itself I am hoping that it will help create a small but viable community who are finding a non- prescriptive, non- shaming language to talk about food in.

[indywind]

Yes! That would be awesome.

[daedala]

Yeah. I find Primal/Paleo fairly helpful for myself, but a lot of it really comes off as snobby expensive Atkins, with an extra side helping of pseudocaveman machismo and sexism. I end up skimming a lot to get to the recipes...

[(Anonymous)]

I imagine it would be helpful to have posts on the order of "if you chose/have to eat a specialized diet, then try these things."

- Harimad

[bemused_leftist]

Hi, Harimad, thanks for your comments about rice cookers on the other entry. They reached me by LJ's email notifications.

[bemused_leftist]

It would be nice to preface EACH of the 'don't's' with DON'T. Otherwise we have to scroll up to see if this is the DON'T list or the DO list.