Art made from $8,000 worth of junk food - TakePart.com

Junk Food Art

Excerpt of article Terrifying Art Made out of $8,000 worth of junk food by Kristina Bravo a Los Angeles–based writer. She is an Assistant Editor at TakePart

Artist James Ostrer has put candy bars, ice cream cones, and doughnuts somewhere better than in our stomachs: in artwork.

As part of the Wotsit All About exhibit at London’s Gazelli Art House gallery, Ostrer’s photo series depicts humans covered in a sickly pile of $8,000 worth of snacks. He began by covering his subjects with tinted cream cheese and then added the sugary, fatty, and salty things we put into our bodies every day. European codes for food additives inspired the titles. (One work is called EF 125.5.)

The point? To bring to mind how junk food engulfs our diet—and to gross us out.

“My dad would always drive my sister and me to McDonald’s and we’d have a Happy Meal,” the photographer told NPR. He said that after his parents’ divorce, he dealt with the stress by eating. Later, Ostrer noticed how his diet made him sick. “It’s never going really to make you feel good,” he said.

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p.s.s. Apologies - their site won't let me download menu tray choices.

Imagine!   There are some industry groups that want to
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http://www.americathemovie.com/

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Response to Post on Fooducate:

Thanks for your reply. Water can't be offered as a beverage choice in the public school lunch line or on the menu choices at elementary schools. (Plain natural water is sold separately but you have to pay extra.) Our school district won't be reimbursed by the federal government's school lunch program if water is offered with the lunch. The reason: water has no nutritional value.*

(Now, I wonder what lobby group had water banned and chocolate candy in a carton on the menu?) Sorry, couldn't resist.

Does your child attend a private school? We live in a fairly affluent community and still have families that require subsidized school lunches so our system definitely participates in the federal programs.

*Our school food director shared this with me when our children were in elementary school and sadly it hasn't changed. Our daughter has always preferred water. She would have to "choose" one of the cow's milk products and throw it away. She would tell me how wasteful she felt it was to take something you don't want and have to then throw it away. She's since graduated high school.

Just walked past a big MILK poster in the middle school the other night and the athletes with milk mustaches in elementary school. It really is subliminal advertising at its worse and no one to stick up for the benefits of plain ol' natural water.

Our children play a lot of sports and not once have they run off a court or field and asked for a milk bottle. Wait, maybe I just gave the industry a marketing idea.

Thanks for reading.

Best regards.

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