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...Selick made the film at Laika, the Oregon animation outfit owned by Nike cofounder Phil Knight. The studio formerly housed the facilities of stop-motion producer Will Vinton, who'd done Oscar-winning shorts and The PJs. Knight, a stockholder in Vinton's company, took over the place essentially to please his son Travis, who'd been a junior animator under Vinton. It's the grand gesture of which only zillionaires are capable. A man sees his child merrily playing with model trains, so he buys the kid Amtrak...
...Vinton: I buy all of my meat directly from the farmer. I do that because of ailments such as mad cow disease that are in the food chain, and not being tested for thoroughly. Also, I believe in raising animals on pasture, which is the diet that nature intended for them to have. You hear the term "corn-fed beef" thrown around. Nothing could be worse for cattle than to eat corn. They're ruminants. They can turn grass into protein. Feeding them corn is a diet that's too rich for them. It makes them very ill and requires...
...Vinton: When I go out to eat, I think it's most important to support a local family establishment. In the best-case scenario, they're using local ingredients as well. I ride by the national chains and opt for the local pizza place, the local taco stand, anything that's run by the family. Then I'm going to have influence over what I want to see on the menu, and I can express my desire for local ingredients directly to the CEO, because chances are he's running the oven. He's got the skillet in his hands...
...Vinton: I love to cook, but I don't think you have to. The fresher the ingredients are, the less you have to do to them to bring out their flavors. If you can get to the farmer's market, I don't think there are many vegetables that would suffer from a quick saute with garlic and olive oil, fish run under the broiler, a steak fried in a pan. Scramble an egg; toss a salad. I think that the industrial food industry, the processed food industry, has spent a lot of money and has been very effective...
...Vinton: That's the most beautiful thing about the real food movement. It's not an all or nothing proposition. Start with your basics, the things that you eat the most of, or things that are easiest to come by. Pick one item from the farmer's market that's grown locally. There's no reason to be importing those. If you would just commit to only buying local apples, that would make a huge impact. The Northeast Organic Farmers' Association of Maine did a study. If families spent just spent $10 a week on local produce during...