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Podcast: 'Deconstructing Dinner' weighs in on the Whopper Virgins controversy.
[Editor's note: This is a summary of a podcast you can download or listen to from this page.]
Controversy has been stirring in newspapers and on Internet blogs about Whopper Virgins, a recent marketing gimmick launched by global fast-food giant Burger King (BK).
Crispin-Porter and Bogusky is the PR firm behind the seven-minute film, which shows BK's flagship Whopper hamburger being taste-tested in some of the most remote places in the world. The Inuit of Greenland, Transylvanian farmers of Romania and the Hmong of Thailand are the subjects, and their reactions to the homogenous staple of American fast food have garnered mixed reactions in North America about the ethics of such a feeding experiment for commercial and entertainment values.
Deconstructing Dinner adds its comments to the debate and presents a reworked version of their film. We hope that our version tells a more revealing and accurate depiction of why Whopper Virgins has generated so much controversy.
While fast-food corporations continue to export American cuisine and customs, more Westerners are embracing old-world traditions. Also in this episode, we meet the producers of a feature-length documentary film about the growing backyard chicken movement. Since its release in late 2008, Mad City Chickens has screened at a number of North American film festivals and will be available on DVD in early 2009.
Guests
Tashai Lovington & Robert Lugai, producers, Mad City Chickens (Madison, WI) --Tashai & Robert collaborated to form Tarazod Films. Tashai is a program producer and NLE editor for a Madison area television station. Robert is the education director and program coordinator for a Madison area television station.
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margot
3 years ago
Deconstructing Dinner is
Deconstructing Dinner is great, and these folks could use some modest donations.
I had three hens and a rooster, for several months, until I got busted by the City of Duncan. No one complained about the rooster crowing, by the way. The neighbours responsible said it was the "smell". ??? More like my objections to (their?) truck tire ruts in my front yard and my concern about violence in a relationship.
By-laws seem to exist for their abuse, and revenge.
The chicken summer was wonderful. I really did watch them like TV. Their only sin was lurking and swiping cat kibble.
As well as eggs, I got huge veggies and waist high tulips the next year.
Janice, Abby and Connie (favourite singers) were a lot of fun, and Rocky the cock was a great lookout and protector.
I'm inspired. I'm going to change the damned by-law, and have chickens again this spring.
ME2
3 years ago
Margot
Have you forgotten the old Kris Kristofferson song "The laws are for the perteckshun of the peepul".
In case you hadn't noticed, we're in a modern rerun of the Fifties - only this time, the "hippies" want more laws too. Mind you, they're only for your own good. :- )
anarcho
3 years ago
We do Margo?
"the "hippies" want more laws too."
Do we? I would scrap every interfering by-law and keep only those that make environmental, health and safety sense. So would all of my friends. Let's get rid of by-laws that tell you that you have to have a house of 800 sq. ft., that you can't have a trailer on your property, that you can't put washing on the line, that you can't have chickens etc and etc. Scrap em all and make new by-laws subject to 75% approval of the population to keep this sort of micro-fascism at bay. Do what ever you damn well want, just don't impinge on others environment, health and safety, that's all.