NPR - PART 2

Tomatoes: I love tomatoes so when this pod cast came on I was very interested. Did you know that 1/3 of all tomatoes come from Florida? That Florida uses 8 times the amount of pesticides than most other states do including California. I found out that most of the tomatoes you buy from your local grocery store have very minimal nutrition. We have actually lost 30-40% of the nutrition in tomatoes since the 1960’s but that we have added 14 times the amount of sodium. Do you ever wonder why tomatoes that you buy from the store don’t crack ever but you can’t carry more than a few tomatoes from your back yard to your house without a few breaking? The podcast talked about the fact that tomato farmers no longer get paid for taste they get paid by the pound. Is this the consumers fault for wanting perfect tomatos in November? Is this the price we pay for not buying local?

This information was provided to me by Barry Estabrook, for more information about him please check out his blog - http://politicsoftheplate.com/.

Job Creating vs. Education: Politicians today all talk about needing “job creation” yet the first thing that is cut today is education. I watched the GOP debate earlier this month and the whole time not one candidate brought up education. They talked about job creation a lot but not education. How can you talk about one without the other as if they were not connected? America is ranked 29th in the world in math in science, will that ever change if our focus isn’t on the future? I understand the need for short run fixes but at some point shouldn’t we focus on the long run?

James Franco - Spider Man 2002 This movie is a classic Marvel Comics movie about Peter Parker (Toby Maguire) getting bit by a spider and turning into Spider Man. This is one of this first movies where James Franco who plays Harry Osborn actually shows us he has some potential. Although Franco wanted the part of Spider Man he played the next best role as the best friend/son to the evil Green Goblin. If you have not seen this movie I would say it is a must see Marvel flick. His famous line in the movie is "What have you done? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? after finding out about his fathers Death. More to come for Mr. Harry Osborn.