Triple metablog and more

Lots of diet and exercise studies are based on male subjects, and the results don't necessarily apply to women.

Voting with your wallet isn't enough to change the food system.

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Sometimes it's enough, when multiple bloggers write about one thing--or blog about what the other blogged about that one thing--to pick the most inclusive and leave it at that, but I think all three of these are worthwhile for different reasons. Let's take the original: Mark Bittman's book review of what is apparently "Skinny Bitch" for men. The book is noteworthy because it goes against the trend that I (meta)blogged about a couple of months ago--the conflation of meat with masculinity. But really, I have to echo MB's disapproval of all that fake food. Soy cheese has got to be the most disgusting invention ever, even when it convincingly tastes and feels like dairy cheese.

Ezra Klein defends processed foods, says you can't blame people for choosing frozen meals. Grist's Tom Laskawy reminds him that that's a bunch of crap: it doesn't take much longer to prepare a basic meal than to heat up a processed one. And I agree with him on another thing: frozen peas are awesome. But also on his general point: there are processed foods, and there are processed foods. Tofu is not lean cuisine. The raw foods people are full of hippie crap.