THE
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT DECLARES WAR ON JUNK FOOD
Released on
= July 29, 2005, 11:02 pm
Press Release
Author = Christopher Largen
Industry = Entertainment
Press Release
Summary = RIOTOUS COMEDY PUTS THE "UGH" BACK INTO "DONUT,"
LAMPOONS
PROHIBITION, FOOD CRAVINGS, AND MISGUIDED CRUSADES
Christopher
Largen’s Iconoclastic Novel JUNK Latest Release From Boutique
Fiction House ENC Press
Press Release
Body = NEW YORK–TEXAS — Court mandates liposuction.
Cops are busted for selling doughnuts. Protesters demand ban on
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. U.S. military forces eradicate
Africa’s cocoa fields. Welcome to the dystopian
satire JUNK, where the lives of an undercover police officer, an
inner-city food-abuse counselor, and a black-market baker collide
with devastating
consequences.
A hilarious
and tragic exploration of moralistic prohibition policies, Junk
transcends the false dichotomies posed by conservative and liberal
ideologies, and raises more questions than it answers: What are
the public effects of private health
choices? When legislators respond to epidemics with criminal sanctions,
do they exacerbate the health crisis? Do mafia kingpins support
the prohibition of their products? Can public safety and personal
responsibility ever become reconciled through government policies?
Preliminary
reviews are calling the novel a classic, comparing it to Mark Twain,
Will Rogers, George Orwell, and Kurt Vonnegut. JUNK’s author,
Christopher Largen, is a leading proponent of drug-policy reform.
His credits include Prescription Pot (a nonfiction exploration of
the U.S. government's medical cannabis program), and articles in
various publications, including the Village Voice, High Times, Nashville
Scene, Ft. Worth Weekly, and Cannabis Culture. He is a frequent
guest speaker at colleges and festivals across America.
Mr. Largen discovered
that writing about cannabis gave him a severe case of the munchies,
and JUNK flowed forth like cream soda. In the gluttonous tradition
of Supersize Me, he method-wrote JUNK during a three-month food
binge, hoping to
augment his prose with a sugar rush. He gained 25 pounds and inspired
inquiries from concerned clerks at his local convenience store,
where he loaded up on ice cream, hot dogs, and candy bars. Since
finishing the novel, Mr. Largen claims to have reformed his dietary
habits, but federal authorities have not yet completed their investigation.
WARNING: PLEASE
DO NOT TRY TO APPREHEND THE AUTHOR, AS HE MAY BE ARMED WITH SIZEABLE
QUANTITIES OF FRIED PEANUT BUTTER AND BANANA SANDWICHES.
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