June 07, 2006
Why I Love the Internet, part 5,694
A guy in Canada decided to eat nothing but Monkey Chow for seven days. Naturally, he's documenting this on his website.
Sensing an opportunity to push its anti-regulation platform, The American Council on Science and Health posted an article that praised the Candian's pluck, while obliquely suggesting that the government ought not to regulate what people eat, even if what they eat is Monkey Chow.
"..the food police and overzealous regulators have gone wrong. You can't simply tell people what to eat, without considering all of the other roles that food plays in our lives -- such as pleasure and socializing,...Perhaps instead of eating like monkeys, we can find a way to eat like humans. Food technology, not zoology, might offer some answers."
Then a lawyer for Purina sent a letter to The ACSH, complaining that the use of Monkey Chow in their article about the guy whose eating the Monkey Chow threatens the uniqueness of Purina's Monkey Chow trademark:
"We noticed your generic use of our valuable trademark CHOW with monkey. Your use of "monkey chow" seems to be referring to monkey food in general and not the MONKEY CHOW brand monkey food produced by Purina Mills."
Turns out the Monkey Chow guy is actually eating ZuPreem Primate Dry Diet Animal Food, not Purina Monkey Chow (TM) Which might explain why he's going insane.
Clearly everyone in the universe needs to close the laptop and go outside for a bike ride.
