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We Are Headed Toward a Complete Breakdown in Our Food System

alternet.org — Pollan gives a glimpse at the current state of food politics inside the White House and within his own home.

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  • eyepennies, on 07/06/2009, -1/+35Did a school for retarded children take a field trip to the comments section today?
  • ftc08, on 07/06/2009, -0/+27I can't count how many different ways this comment is retarded.
  • ftc08, on 07/06/2009, -7/+33Quite honestly, we could use a breakdown of our current food system. There are people who literally eat nothing but fast food, and are slowly but surely paying the costs beyond the $2 hamburger.

    Throw the current system out of whack and we might get a resurgence of people eating actually good food. You can eat healthy for a reasonable amount of money, you just have to be willing to eat something other than heavily preserved random bits of cow.
  • auraslip, on 07/06/2009, -0/+20I read the omnivores delima around the same time I read the Harvard medical schools guide to good eating. Everything clicked at once, and you best believed it changed my life. Tonight I made buttermilk squash soup with squash from my garden. How could I ever replace that with a microwavable dinner?
  • Frixionburne, on 07/06/2009, -11/+27CLIFF NOTES VERSION:
    My kid was a ***** pain in the ass eater because he had retarded tastebuds and was colorblind during childhood. Now he's still a bitch who won't eat seafood but likes to play chef, so i guess its all ok...... because a professional chef told me so. If you didn't know, people eat ***** food, and if you buy fresh food from a market to cook, then you wont end up looking like Rosie O'Donnel. Thats right, eating ***** food will make you an ugly lesbian. Oh by the way, Obama is good at playing connect the dots and some ***** about Soviet Russia.
  • ProfessorRiffs, on 07/06/2009, -0/+13Holy *****.
  • mark076h, on 07/06/2009, -10/+21I went to the grocery store a few days ago, everything looks fine.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -1/+11Everything on the TV looks good as well. Back to work!
  • Frixionburne, on 07/06/2009, -1/+10"genetically engy plants and *****"

    I have never before bore witness to such a precise and thought provoking description of genetically altered foodstuffs! Thank you for the enlightenment!

  • chaiwalla, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8Read the comments on both the alternet site and the original Tyee site. They are intelligent and add to an important discussion. The comments here are moronic. I am not sure why. Maybe it is a response to the overstated headline.
  • leif77, on 07/06/2009, -1/+9HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Not sure if that's some Andy Kaufman style comedy... or just dumb... either way, you win...
  • Akairenn, on 07/06/2009, -2/+9Sir, you may take my cheezburgrz when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

    Don't make me paint myself blue and wave my genitalia at you. FREEEDOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
  • thejackyl, on 07/06/2009, -2/+8"prolly"?
  • ftc08, on 07/06/2009, -1/+7Syntaxgs is the teacher.
  • eyepennies, on 07/06/2009, -0/+6It isn't because of the headline. It is because Digg isn't a think tank; it's a site on the internet where people prefer to hastily shout their opinions on subjects about which they know very little. It is much easier to do that than it is to actually know what one is talking about or to think critically.

    For fun, you can play the digg comment game where you read through comments and try to identify every possible fallacy. It's fun. For instance, ripple123 above me is a big fan of the ad hominem.
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -2/+8I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
  • argagarg, on 07/06/2009, -1/+7My knee-jerk reaction to the article title: "WTF!! I don't care if the economy breaks down, but not FOOD! I ***** NEED that *****!"

    But then I read the article and felt like I was having a beer and ***** with some health-food freak. Who rambles about ***** I don't care about. A lot.
  • copypastry, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5It's like Reader's Digest, but edited by George Carlin.

    You win.
  • ripple123, on 07/06/2009, -2/+7i bet you know where to get really good pot.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4I,ve personally grown to love the upside down apostrophe and triple-comma ellipsis. But I still dugg you down for the stupid sentiment you,ve so clumsily expressed.
  • leif77, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5I honestly think we should digg this guy up... he obviously isn't a pro at english... let's make his day...
  • ripple123, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5seig heil! seig heil! seig heil! ein reich, ein diet, ein fuhrer!
  • MaxxusFlamus, on 07/06/2009, -5/+9whoa whoa whoa.

    You leave my tasty cows out of this.
  • Majora26, on 07/06/2009, -2/+5easy. Go to the store, buy a microwavable dinner, go home, put it in ur microwave for however long is described on the package, and then let it cool for a bit and eat
  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -1/+4Dugg for humor and effort. Keep it up, you're doing great!
  • kingp, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3Sure. We can just have a steady diet of Brawndo, The Thirst Mutilator and a Carl's Jr., Extra Big Ass Taco.
    "Carl's Jr., F*CK You, I'm Eating".
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3I'd like to think he's producing satire, but as we all know, diggers don't get sarcasm. You must learn to use "/s" young padawan.
  • Abram730, on 07/07/2009, -0/+2Us poor folks can't afford fancy things like vegetables.

    Personally I'd have to say working from 9am to 4am while attempting to maintain a relationship, showering, eating and sleep, affects your health more... At least while eating only fast food but there wasn't time for shopping and cooking or the money for that matter..

    Actually that was the only time I had insurance but when would I of been able to use that? It all catches up with you in time but what's a person to do?

    I have never been on welfare or taken unemployment or things like that, so you can't call me a burden on you... You can call me poor though, as that's true.
  • adamcarrington, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2WIN
  • Rj6045, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2BEWARE OF CODEX

    http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp

    we are scewed...
  • Munk3y, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3If by today you mean everyday, yes.
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -2/+4Not a sensationalist headline AT ALL!

    (I guess people don't expect any more from alternet.)
  • copypastry, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3I'm burying your ass for the use of "engy"


  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -2/+4Any "progressive" dude that eats meat, drinks booze, and asks more questions of his interviewer than he's asked is ***** awesome in my book.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2ripple123 just hella "outed" me.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2"Cheep food" = worms and bugs upchucked out of mama or papa bird's beak. I'll take it!
  • ripple123, on 07/06/2009, -2/+3you sound like a english teacher grading a essay. seriously.
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1man the anti-obama people really hold a grudge over nothing.
    no wonder you guys are on the brink of civil war.
  • EddiePotato, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2Via laziness? I imagine that would be pretty easy.
  • scoottie, on 07/06/2009, -3/+4Your version was written much better.
  • eyepennies, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Well played, sir.
  • DangerCollie, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1I agree we're way too dependent on corporate food. Big cities are three days away from food riots if something really bad happened. If it was localized we could probably manage. If it impacted a wide area, I'm not sure we have the capacity.

    This isn't so much trying to take away anyones cheeseburgers...please, no blue genitalia....but more about food security and sustainability.

    Our current food system is scary. Large manufacturers can no longer guarantee they know where all the ingredients come from. JIT inventory management makes source tracking extremely difficult. The meat and poultry you get in the store is loaded with antibiotics and hormones administered routinely. Many animals feeds have meat byproducts and medications in them. Feedlot cattle are stuffed with most disgusting food products to try and fatten them up, including discarded candy. And the living conditions on feedlots...ugh, filthy.

    I've been selling goats lately and can't keep them in stock. People like that they don't get antibiotics or hormones, that they're raised on lush pasture and quality hay with no feed additives. I can sell them as fast as I can wean them off the nannies. People left standing orders. Even the babies on the ground now are spoken for.
  • ldiamond, on 07/07/2009, -0/+1Jim Rogers states that food inventories are at there lowest level in 50 years. The population is increasing and food levels are decreasing. Only a small glitch in the system will send food prices skyrocketing.
    http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/10/26/jim-roge ...

    As Peter Schiff points out, when inflation kicks in, or food prices rise dramatically, we will see price controls set on food. As in Zimbabwe, this will induce a mad dash for the markets and clear the shelves.

    BTW, you can eat whatever you want, but don't ask the government to steal (aka tax through inflation or otherwise) from me or insurance companies to subsidize you by increasing my premiums to pay for your sick care. "With great power comes great responsibility", just as with freedom comes personal responsibility.
  • scottgman, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Diggers seem to be a pretty intelligent group, on average. However, I suspect the average digger is a fat-ass, fast-food junkie who rarely leaves their computer desk. So it's not surprising to me that there are alot of hostile comments to a story like this one.
  • askantik, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Sad...
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