Devil's Advocate
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I'm not personally a vegetarian, and probably never will be, but I was raised to appreciate and even enjoy vegetables as part of my upbringing. As an adult I've also learned that the easiest and most positive impact you can choose both for your body and for the planet is to eat less meat. It's unfortunate that Amtrak continues to treat vegetables as a distant afterthought rather than a core ingredient that greatly benefits from fresh sourcing and quality preparation. This isn't the 1940's anymore. There is no need to rely on boxed, canned, or frozen vegetables. We are quickly approaching 2016 and these days even generic hotel chains and dowdy old airports like London's much maligned Heathrow are stocking freshly prepared healthy selections packaged and ready for you to pickup and take on the next leg of your journey.
Meanwhile the freshness and nutritional content of Amtrak's food continues to struggle to match convenience store standards in developing countries. If Boardman is in genuine agreement with the likes of Mica and Shuster, that the food and beverage service needs to break even or better in five (four?) years or less, then the the least he can do is start selling nutritious and freshly prepared foods in major stations along the way. How often do you think Boardman eats this low nutrition, highly caloric, and heavily processed food? How about John Mica or Bill Shuster? I don't expect the kind of five star dining they're more accustomed to, but I do expect an acknowledgement that they're falling further and further behind in a world that is rapidly becoming more and more aware of where our food comes from, how it's processed, and how much harm it can do if we don't take our choices seriously. It would also seem to be good business sense to offer something genuinely fresh and tasty.
Meanwhile the freshness and nutritional content of Amtrak's food continues to struggle to match convenience store standards in developing countries. If Boardman is in genuine agreement with the likes of Mica and Shuster, that the food and beverage service needs to break even or better in five (four?) years or less, then the the least he can do is start selling nutritious and freshly prepared foods in major stations along the way. How often do you think Boardman eats this low nutrition, highly caloric, and heavily processed food? How about John Mica or Bill Shuster? I don't expect the kind of five star dining they're more accustomed to, but I do expect an acknowledgement that they're falling further and further behind in a world that is rapidly becoming more and more aware of where our food comes from, how it's processed, and how much harm it can do if we don't take our choices seriously. It would also seem to be good business sense to offer something genuinely fresh and tasty.
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