YES! - A return to decentralized, local, non-GMO, agriculture is needed for better nutrition.
77%
NO! - The Factory Foods Industry & their lobbists will never allow it, and so Americans are screwed by the foods they eat.
23%
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Nutrition before corporate profit.
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We're the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal health care. We also have the most frankenfood "products" that are created in experimental labs, mass produced, and mass-marketed. If our goverment were to take responsibility for our health care, it/we would have to regulate the food that is making so many people sick. It/we wouldn't be able to afford NOT to! Coincidence?
Someone hit the bull's-eye. When you look at a centralized economy and/or marketplace. You have to see the hub and spoke design. The one factor that a hub and spoke design requires is transportation of goods.This design or model cannot do without fuel, gas or diesel. By decentralizing food production it would exponentially improve the standard of living for Americans. When we transport these crops from the field to the elevators, from the elevators to the trains, from the trains to the cities or the ports to be processed or exported We burn diesel fuel and a lot of it. We are not just talking about the cost of fuel, there is a cost in our environment as well, that black soot that settles our farm ground, homes and cars could be addressed by decentralization to some degree. So in some cases it would be advantageous to decentralize.. For now support your local farmers and producers who bring their produce town.
This must needed change will not only provide better health but provide a huge jobs program too. Organic, sustainable agriculture at a local level requires more labor than factory farming. As climate changes, local, diverse crops will better be able to adapt too. We need legislation that favors local farming. Occupy the legislature!
In the news a few days ago, there was a farm bill story about how the EU countries will now accept organic foods from the US. This opening of the market will encourage more farmers to turn toward organics. That is those who still own their land. A big grain farmer in our area just sold his operation to some investment firm. There is already so much cancer in our area--me included who gardens organically--from farm chemicals--we haven't had a glass of our own well water since we moved here in the 1990s.
We have the power of boycotting bad products. We need to partner with healhcare officials and researchers and the media to get this changed. There are already products that brag about eliminating high fructose corn syrup. Lets put the pressure on and stop being whinning sheep.
Several things: 1. According to predictions about global warming, nearly all foods may be lacking in nutrition eventually, organic or otherwise. 2. The USDA is in bed w/ corporate farming and corporations, and are actually behind companies like MacDonalds, as a way of promoting agri-business. So in the end, it seems the pressure needs to be on environmental issues and the food industry.
Vote with your feet - boycott foods, pink slime ground beef, etc. , and franchised eateries that serve less nutricious food. Easy to do these days, when it's all you can do to get enough on the table. Who can afford to eat out very often???
Push for truth in labeling. There actually were laws for this at one point...and truth in advertising. An old friend, former speaker Tom Foley, helped work on those bills in Congress way back when. Apparently those laws have gone the way of many that protect the consumer.
Adding a slightly off-topic note. Washington state Democratic caucuses are this weekend...find out when and where in your area if you live in Washington State. ..Be there! Thank you