----- hello Liz
in that vein you will love the movie "the corporation" www.the
corporation.com. for a profit they will do anything .
i just saw it tonight and it is well done and wish peoples are going to
become consiencous objector deconsumers.
here more info about the movie .
jean-claude
Award winning director of "The Corporation" to appear on Salt Spring
April 12, 2004
Salt Spring Island - For the past week, Cinema Central has screened
provocative and award winning documentary "The Corporation". This
Wednesday  at 7:00, they are thrilled to sponsor an evening with the
film's co-director and editor, Jennifer Abbott. Produced on a
shoestring, "The Corporation" has gone on to win dozens of
international awards, as well as becoming the top grossing Canadian
documentary in history. The Globe and Mail called it "the next Bowling
for Columbine", and the film has won audience choice awards at the
Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary International Film Festivals along with
being the first ever Canadian prize winner at Sundance. Although she is
in demand internationally, Abbott is making a special appearance on
Salt Spring to introduce her film and will be hosting a Q&A session
following the two and a half hour documentary.

What has gotten everyone talking is the films' darkly amusing portrayal
of the modern corporation as a psychiatric patient undergoing analasis.
  What emerges is a disturbing diagnosis. Self-interested, amoral,
callous and deceitful, a corporation's operational principles make it
anti-social. It breaches social and legal standards to get its way even
while it mimics the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. It
suffers no guilt. Diagnosis: the institutional embodiment of
laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a
psychopath.

The Corporation engages viewers in an account of the institution's
evolution as a legal "person" whose prime directive is to produce
ever-increasing profit for it's shareholders regardless of the cost to
anyone, or anything else. Imbuing it with this pathological nature is a
recent human achievement. 150 years ago a corporation was merely an
organized way of doing business. Today it is a global power that uses
its status as a "person" to claim rights under the constitution.

In production from the time of the loudest protests against
globalization to the high-profile bankruptcies of companies like Enron,
the filmmakers make this huge and complex topic easy to follow and
riveting to watch. Behind-the-scenes tensions and influences are
revealed in corporate and anti-corporate dramas through jaw-dropping
case studies and true confessions.

Featuring a multitude of interviews with CEO's and top-level executives
from some of the worlds largest corporations, representing a wide range
of industries, as well as critical thinkers: Noam Chomsky,  Naomi
Klein, Mark Kingwell, and muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore. Add to
the mix a corporate spy, an undercover marketer, academics, pundits,
historians and activists; deftly blend with newsreel footage, early TV
advertisements, B movies, and corporate propaganda films and you have
the fascinating, original portrait of an institution that is The
Corporation.

  Abbott, in addition to co-directing and editing The Corporation,
produced, directed and edited A Cow at My Table, a feature documentary
about meat, culture and animals, which won 8 international awards.
Her other past works include the experimental short and video
installation about interracial relationships Skinned which toured North
America and Europe including New York's Museum of Modern Art. Abbott
has also edited numerous documentaries, installations and performance
works including Two Brides And A Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage,
produced by Mark Achbar.  She lives on Galiano Island.

The cost of the event will be the same as Cinema Central's regular
ticket price, but event organizers hope to raise additional funds to
cover the costs of bringing Abbott to the island, and to sponsor the
filmmakers' attendance at future festivals including Sydney, Australia,
Brasilia, Brasil, Stockholm, Sweden, and Istambul, Turkey.

Moviegoers looking for a thought provoking yet entertaining take on one
of the least examined modern institutions should treat themselves to
"The Corporation", and those who have seen it are invited to come out
again for the chance to meet Canada's answer to Michael Moore.

Show starts at 7:00; doors at 6:30. Q&A session begins at 9:30;
everyone is welcome to attend. For more information please contact
Andrea Palframan at 537-9935.




> This is a great site. The article claims what I've begun to suspect and
> that is that most of the low carb food products are just as processed as
> the low fat processed crap and that the net carb claims are often bunkum!
> Liz
> http://www.theomnivore.com/shonky_bread_claims.html
> You can't have your     low-carb bread and eat it too!
>
> Low-carb bread claims     don't pan out in lab test.
>
> By Anthony Colpo, April 13,     2004.
>
>
> When people ask me what low-carb bread substitutes I recommend,     my
> answer is always the same: fruits, nuts, and vegetables!
>
> Obviously, that's not the answer     that most folks are hoping for, but
> my goal is to give people     the facts, not merely what they want to
> hear. Personally, I consider     bread to be a poor excuse for food, and
> that applies to most     low-carb versions of this staple. Reading the
> ingredients labels     of these products makes me cringe, especially
> when I see garbage     like soy protein isolate and wheat gluten
> appearing with such     regularity.
>
> Those who are tempted to pass     me off as an uncompromising hard-ass
> should first read about     the experience of Lois Kaplan and Bo
> Bodenschatz. Their story     reinforces my insistence that a healthy
> diet should rely upon     real paleo-style foods, not cleverly-marketed
> psuedo-foods.
>
> After experiencing dramatic health improvements from low-carb     diets,
> Lois and Bo opened a low-carb grocery store in Salem last     year. At
> their store, the two spend a lot of time talking with     customers,
> explaining the ins and outs of low-carb programs.
>
> One of the things they found     out early on was that bread seemed to
> be a hard item for some     low-carb dieters to give up. So Bo and Lois
> spent months looking     for a palatable bread product with a reduced
> carbohydrate count.     About six months ago, a distributor recommended
> breads with the     Low Carb Emporium label.
>
> "They tasted very good,     especially for low-carb," Lois says. The
> label said the bread had 1 net gram of carbohydrate     per slice, a
> very low amount. Customers snapped up the Low Carb     Emporium bread,
> bagels and other bakery products.
>
> However, when some customers     stopped losing weight after
> incorporating the supposedly low-carb     bakery products into their
> diets, Lois and Bo became suspicious. "It just tasted too good to be
> low-carb. That was a red     flag."
>
> The couple contacted Low Carb     Emporium and asked for laboratory
> proof that the claims on the     label were correct. They waited. And
> waited. And then waited     some more. Eventually, the couple decided to
> have the bread tested     - at their own expense - at an independent
> laboratory.
>
> The results were shocking: the     bread had nearly 15 net grams of
> carbs per slice, a similar carbohydrate     content to 'normal' bread!
>
> Last week, I posted an article explaining a number of     reasons why
> many low-carb dieters are recieving little return     for their efforts.
> Chief among these was the ever-increasing     reliance on low-carb junk
> foods, and the unquestioning acceptance     of the 'net carbs' concept.
>
> This whole net carbs tom-foolery     reminds me of the shady accounting
> practices used by some corporate     entities. Clever accountants can
> shuffle the figures and manipulate     profit and loss statements to no
> end, and frequently succeed     in fooling investors and analysts into
> thinking that business     is great, when in fact it really isn't too
> good at all.
>
> In the end, however, reality     is always the final arbiter. A company
> is either making money,     or it isn't. If the latter is the case, a
> company won't be able     to survive on cleverly-worded and misleading
> financial reports     forever.
>
> By the same token, low-carbers are either eating too many carbs,     or
> not, a fact that is not changed by the wishful thinking proponents
> of net carbs or the dodgy labelling practices of processed food
> manufacturers seeking to cash in on the popularity of low-carb     diets.
>
> Carbohydrates don't magically     disappear just because they are
> accompanied by a little fiber!     As I explained in last weeks article,
> processing carbohydrate     foods dramatically reduces their satiety. It
> also increases their     ability to produce rapid spikes in blood sugar
> that are followed     by bouts of reactive hypoglycemia. The
> accompanying hunger pangs     will have most dieters heading straight
> back to the vending machine     for another fix of blood glucose-rasing
> junk. This happens because     when carbohydrate foods are processed,
> the structural matrix     of the fiber is quickly broken up, losing its
> 'bulk' and hence     its ability to provide satiety and to slow
> carbohydrate absorption.     Low-carb bars, breads, bagels, etc, etc,
> are all highly processed     food items.
>
> So to avoid having your weight     loss and health improvement efforts
> go the way of Enron, count     ALL carbs, and get these carbs - as well
> as your proteins and     fats - from REAL paleo-style foods; fresh
> meats, eggs, nuts,     fruits, and vegetables. While not a true paleo
> food item, uncultured     dairy products (butter, cheese, yogurt) are
> fine for those who     can tolerate them, and are a good source of fats,
> calcium, and     vitamins A and D. Leave the brightly-labelled,
> nutrient-depleted     junk on the shelves for those who really think
> they can have     their low-carb cake and eat it too.
>
> Read Lois and Bo's story, and     the extremely disappointing response
> from the folks at Low Carb     Emporium, at:
>
>
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/margie_boule/index.ssf?/base/living/1081512040160450.xml
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