Pork killer indicted, Time for the B.B.L.T.

Yes, it is true. If you make pork, you may be indicted by the Federal Government.

This is true for Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska.

You may remember that I went up to Alaska last year to protest the Senator and Rep. Don Young's pork fest to celebrate the amount of excess they send up to Alaska.

We tried to save the pig they roasted, but were unsuccessful.

People, remember if you take a life to eat it, be reverent. This applies if you are a politician or even the shark from Jaws. Killing a pig to symbolize irresponsible spending and deception of the People, must be one of the worse reasons to sacrifice a pig.

I offer for this time my B.B.L.T. Sandwich.

It contains no Pork only Black Beans Lettuce and Tomatoes. If Tomatoes are not local or in season where you are, then Tangerines will do (but may challenge the politics of your tastebuds)

elements
2 slices of bread
safflower oil mayo
whole or refried black beans, enough for a layer on a slice of bread
lettuce
1 roma tomato or whatever style you can get, hydroponic or otherwise

preparation
if beans are canned, open.
otherwise soak the whole beans a night before, and then prepare according to merococinero.com. use this time to see how Ted Stevens appropriated more pork than any U.S. Senator ever

slice tomato

wash lettuce, use your washed hands to rip lettuce into slices. It's like Ted Steven ripped people's heads off who opposed him. Like the Senators who opposed his desire to put ANWR by saying ""I'm going to go to every one of your states, and I'm going to tell them what you've done!"

toast bread brownish because brown is beautiful.

spread thin layer of safflower oil mayo on toasted bread, then layer of beans. add tomato and lettuce.

enjoy, enjoy that you are not a Republican Senator from Alaska that kills pigs to celebrate government excess, and wonder how digestive karma can affect a career, even political ones.

in solidarity,
Mero Cocinero Karimi

New Trailer!

My comrade at Xylophone Films, Brother AJ Calomay has cut a trailer for the Cooking Show when we were in San Francisco. He has done an incredible job. Que Viva el AJ!

Mero

Mistreatment of Workers is not kosher

Yes! Good people!

There are rabbis saying that mistreatment of workers is not kosher (and I would hope Imams would agree and say the mistreatment of workers is not hallal either!). That we should be treating the people who bring food to our table in a respectful way.

The rabbis know that if there is injustice in any part of the chain that brings our food to the table, then we will consume that injustice, and we will be walking vessels of injustice, constantly at odds with our hearts seeking justice.

This is all coming out because of an article revealing raids in Postville, Iowa,

'There's something bad in this town'

By JON TEVLIN, Star Tribune

There is a small-town stillness here, neat houses and kids riding bicycles down quiet, leafy streets. But in the Guatemalan bakery, in church pews, at the meatpacking plant and the kosher deli, the strained voices almost always dwell on the raid that changed everything.

The stillness is not serenity. It's shock.

Scores of heavily armed federal agents last month stormed into Agriprocessors, which produces up to 70 percent of all kosher meat in America. The feds seized almost 400 of the plant's 900 workers in the largest single roundup of illegal immigrants to date, charging about 300 of them with identity theft and using stolen Social Security cards.

where undocumented workers were arrested at Kosher Food Processing Plant. There are accusations of mistreatment of the workers, and to add insult to injury, the Federal government has raided the factory and punished the workers (even though it is the factory owners who hired them.

Food has a value. Work has a value. Why must we shortchange the workers that bring food to our table? Especially to ensure the integrity of food, be it kosher, be it hallal, or any label, requires an immense amount of faith in everyone along the food chain. If we shortchange these people, harass them, make life bad for them, how can we trust this treatment will not enter our food, and eventually our systems, after we eat it?

If we value and respect everybody with our our personal standards of justice and equality, then these ideas will be a part of what we put into our bodies. I'd rather eat justice, integrity, and equality, than choke on injustice and sadness.

To read more, click here!

In solidarity,
Mero

Good people!

Good people of bloglandia,

I have been away from the internet for awhile.

My long tour in the Bay Area, led to trips to Nebraska, St. Paul, Denver, and back to Anchorage.

While not all these trips are advertised, they have been chronicled. I will be putting photos and new from my previous travels.

The biggest news is food, if you haven't noticed. Food prices are skyrocketing, the feds are cracking down and oppressing Latinos in various factories and stores throughout the Midwest.

I have so much to type out. If you are looking for recipes for previous shows, please don't hesitate to email me at merococinero at gmail dot com.