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Originally Posted by cacophony
rant done.
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Quality rant. And yes that is exactly the type of shit I'm talking about. Let me jump on that one. If you haven't already, see
. Its awesome and was done by the same guy who wrote fast food nation. I mean no its not awesome, because now that I've seen it, i'm a disgruntled vegetarian. Now that I know a typical big mac comprises parts from 3,000 different cows, along with an amonia mixed paste to curb e coli poisoning.
It makes the exact arguments you made about oats, but with corn. Corn is a subsidized crop, which means the government comes in and pays farmers to plant largely over other crops, because you don't have the real cost of production with corn. The subsidies come from corporate government collusion, which takes the corn and puts through a lab where things like high fructose corn syrup comes out and gives us all diabetes. Ever drink a coke in Europe? they still use real sugar. It tastes awesome.
The corn is also pushed out to feed the cattle industry, which isn't their natural diet and is the reason why new pathogens like e coli are now killing us even from things like spinach. Which goes back to the amonia paste.
So in comes organics, right? Small farms to save the day.
Not. The new food safety bill will basically kill any chance small farms and orchards will be able to afford getting the fda to get its kellogs inc. staffed ass down and approve their organic label.
The wife sometimes writes for food magazines and one article she did was on small businesses that deliver local food. The point was that somebody actually has to work full time to figure out what food is actually organic and local, because the current system allows loop hole after loop hole. For instance, a grocer can say tomatoes were grown in the USA if they were picked in argentina and then sat in a warehouse ripening in california for a few weeks.