Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Globalization?
It’s getting to the point where you can’t enjoy a simple hamburger these days. Somehow, the hamburger has become the most guilt-ridden food available. So manythings come wrapped up in that paper wrapper as hidden condiments that it’s amazing we can’t even eat the things. Vegetarian invective; inhumane treatment of factory farmed beef; animal, vegetable, and industrial waste; environmental degradation due to paper wrappers, waxy cups, and moldy Beanie Babies they all serve to make that fried and dried meat puck a bit hard to swallow. And now, thanks to growth hormones and a whole bevy of theoretical issues, McDonalds just might prevent our chances for world peace. Just ask Jose Bove. On November 30, 1999, after the first day of riots and chaos that engulfed Seattle during the World Trade Organization summit, NPR’s All Things Considered ran a story in which Bove, a French farmer, was interviewed. Bove had been arrested in France and spent 10 days in jail for leading a protest in which an
