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Veggie Burger - Not the real McCoy! Credit: bonappetit.com We all know how hunger can change governments. History has shown us again and again that hungry people become angry. Think Bastille and 'give them cake', there went the French monarchy. Look at starving Russian peasants, and poof went the Romanov dynasty, the brutal killing of Rasputin (of the lover of Russian Queen fame) and the Bolshevik Revolution. We also know that people can be controlled via food and eating practices. As early as antiquity, the Pythogarians, who believed that everything in the Universe has a mathematical calculation behind it to make them work like clockwork, had peculiar eating habits of avoiding certain foods. Their rationale is that that practice would ease their quest in discovering the 'Truth'. Potatoes were never a staple diet in Europe before the 16th century. Having depended on cereals for food, famine was a common occurrence as harvests were unpredictable. Sir Walter R...

The Founder (2017) Everyone has his passion for something. He has obvious ideas on how he wants to develop his baby to showcase to the world with so much pride and joy. He may be committed to his course and would sacrifice time, effort, sweat and sleep over it. But sadly passion alone is insufficient to take his brain-child to a higher level. Others may not share his madness and may fail to see all the excitement, and the endeavour would just fizzle out as swiftly as the revelation materialised. It takes a kind of something to bring the idea to town. That is where the role of a ruthless loud mouth jack-of-all-trades makes an impact. The type who could promise the moon and the stars and could sell ice to the Inuits. Even though on the surface this kind of practice may be frowned upon, at the end of the day, these kind of ruthless people are the ones who rock the world. They make things happen. They move the world, not the Mr Nice Guys who worry about hurting another and living rig...