Steve sent a link to a slideshow of Carl Warner’s foodscape photographs. Amazing stuff. There’s a brief description of each one underneath the photo. Warner’s own website is here.
Fremont, Michigan, home of the Gerber Products Company, kicks off its National Baby Food Festival today. Events include competitive baby food-making and (our favorite) an adults-eating-baby-food contest in which two-person teams are blindfolded and forced to feed one another various fruit purees.
“Foodmaster” shows a pig-feed machine, and operating tables that are necessary for the efficient processing of pig meat to people. In an attempt to rationalize industrial food production, “FoodMaster” presents a critical commentary on our modern consumer society.
On the other hand, “FoodMaster” is also a solution to the problem of feeding the ever-growing world population. In this system, only simple production work is needed — the process is as simple and easy as possible. The machine works on human remains that are first crushed, then dried, and sterilized. Thus the man himself becomes part of the fully-industrialized food chain that he has created.
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