Can’t open the link but after watching yet an another dog take a dump at Nordstrom, I can see why some folks are up in arms about dogs being allowed everywhere.
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I can’t figure out how to share NY Mag articles. (I have an annual subscription.)
I will say that I moved to my current neighborhood just as the pandemic began. And it appears to me that the dog population has exploded. Virtually everyone I see walking a dog has poop bags and uses them. But of course that’s not everyone everywhere.
Also there are zillions of dogs on subways and buses, properly leashed and mostly carried by their accompanied human. But when the elevator out of the subway has more dogs in strollers than babies and toddlers…things that make me go “hmmm.”
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This is a video, but there’s a transcript which is how I consumed it.
He Was an Insurance Executive. She’s a Doctor. They’re Divided.
I agree. And I’m a dog lover.
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I have a dog, and absolutely love dogs. But no, they shouldn’t be everywhere.
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I live in Southern California and when you see a stroller it’s about 50/50 baby/dog!
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I see a lot of dog strollers in Colorado. (LOL - just yesterday I saw a FB post about a friend that got one for her arthritic dog who loves the outdoors.) But I see lots more baby strollers.
My biggest dog owner pet peeves:
- Off leash dogs
- People not picking up after their dogs
- Fake “service” dogs in markets and in airplanes
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And … we have at least one person in our neighborhood who picks up the doggie doo in a poop bag and just leaves it there … on lawns, on the road, sometimes on a rock …
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I have never left dog poop behind, un-bagged, or bagged. I love all dogs, but I’m 50/50 on dog owners I’ve encountered over the years. I’ve bagged neglected poop for owners and thrown it “to” them to help them remember their job.
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Rona Maynard has a great free substack. I loved today’s:
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Can Food Actually Be Medicine? These Doctors Say Yes
Prescribing produce, crafting meals: More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients.
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Thanks for sharing all these NYT articles. Journalism has gotten so bad lately, though.
"The practice of treating disease with home-delivered food began during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. "
This seems like a ridiculous premise! People have been taking food to people who are sick for forever!
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Especially in NYC, this was definitely an important part of the response to the AIDS epidemic. See: Our Mission - God's Love We Deliver | God's Love We Deliver
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Oh, I’m not saying that delivering meals didn’t happen during the AIDS epidemic, but it hardly “BEGAN” then which is what the quote says.
I think there is nuance here. I read the quote as emphasizing delivering food specifically formulated to target an effect of the disease, not just a container of soup offered as a neighborly gesture to a person with a cold:
The practice of treating disease with home-delivered food began during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Volunteers created palatable, nutrient-dense meals to help combat H.I.V. wasting syndrome, which essentially caused patients to starve to death even when they ate.
I think the nuance is food as medicine rather than kindness.
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It’s not accurate with that interpretation either. Terrible journalism. They are saying that throughout the history of ALL HUMANITY no people ever before used home delivered foods as medicine?? Only in the 1980s did people start to deliver specific medicinal foods to sick people??
That’s ridiculous and a good editor should have caught that and a good writer should never have written that sentence in the first place.
Instead of “The practice of treating disease with home-delivered food began during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Volunteers created palatable, nutrient-dense meals…”
This could have easily and more clearly been reworked as “During the 1980s AIDS epidemic, the practice of treating disease with home-delivered food became an important way to support patients. Volunteers created palatable, nutrient-dense meals…”
Sorry if it seems like I’m being pedantic but it really is not accurate and in my world accuracy in writing matters, especially now in our brave new world of AI slop. I guess I did learn something in J-school after all.
I see something written like that and it makes me doubt the writer, the article, and the media outlet. And, yes, I do find myself questioning every single thing these days.
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Food as medicine is hardly new. It appears to ignore dieticians totally who have worked with this seemingly forever. They make cookbooks tailored to all types of diseases/conditions including cardiac, diabetes, cancer, weight-loss. Drug-food interactions became a part of pharmacy in the early 80’s. There are specialized dietary supplements that are part of medical treatment and have been for a long time.
What appears new in this scenario is that now people want custom made meals delivered to their doors and insurance is supposed to pay for it. I’d like a personal chef too. Why should I care if my doctor can cook and they’re interested in watching Top Chef? Means zero.
Doctors already say “eat less fat and sugar, drink less alcohol, less processed food” which probably accounts for at least 80% of the populations ills. Is the only solution here to have someone else ( that means us) do the grocery shopping, pay for it, cook it and then free delivery to boot? Is someone also going to watch to see if that lentil soup gets eaten? That a tub of ice cream with a big spoon isn’t part of my regular routine?
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The Chinese have long had different foods for different conditions. When I had each baby, my MIL made me special soups to aid in my recovery. When you are ill, there’s a soup mix with dried herbs you are supposed to cook up with meat (or buy each of the herbs separately).
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Long NY Times article about this father and son. Sorry, no gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/well/ai-chatbots-cancer.html
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