"It is enormously destructive of farmland, farm communities and farmers. It wastes soil, water, energy and life. It is highly centralized, genetically impoverished and dependent on cheap fossil fuels, on long-distance hauling and on consumers' ignorance."The corn, (more and more of it genetically modified), becomes the sugar added to almost every thing we eat. The soy becomes the fat additive in processed foods. This as our nation suffers growing problems with increasing obesity and fewer family farms.
In a related matter, the House has passed and the Senate is to consider a bill to minimize the labeling information on the food we buy. As citizens, our job is to inform ourselves and guide our government. It seems our government keeps trying to make that more difficult. The corporations get the benefits and we get the privilege of bearing the costs. As Jim Hightower has written,
"In the very short span of about fifty years, we've allowed our politicians to do something remarkably stupid: turn America's food-policy decisions over to corporate lobbyists, lawyers and economists. These are people who could not run a watermelon stand if we gave them the melons and had the Highway Patrol flag down the customers for them - yet, they have taken charge of the decisions that direct everything from how and where food is grown to what our children eat in school.”
Now, into the circle file...
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