Washington Post: America Must Declare War on Food

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There are some people who wake up every morning wondering how they can make America more like the USSR. There are newspapers who print the ravings of lunatics whose big goal in life is to control all human activity.

The Washington Post is one of those newspapers. Despite one of the authors of this screed being a New York Times food critic, it wouldn’t even touch this with a ten-foot fork.

Yet we have no food policy — no plan or agreed-upon principles — for managing American agriculture or the food system as a whole.

Because we’re not the Soviet Union. Our food policy is we grow it and eat it. People like this want us to starve by government mandate instead.

The food system and the diet it’s created have caused incalculable damage to the health of our people and our land, water and air. If a foreign power were to do such harm, we’d regard it as a threat to national security, if not an act of war, and the government would formulate a comprehensive plan and marshal resources to combat it.

Sure, let’s declare war on food. We can start bombing wheatfields and machine gunning cows.

The war on poverty and war on drugs worked so well. This will be the most popular war ever. I predict it will end with the mass cannibalism of liberals.

Farm policies are designed to support our public health and environmental objectives

Who needs to grow wheat anyway. Let’s grow a whole lot of “healthful” food no one wants and force people to eat it. Maybe we can nationalize farms and kill Kulaks.

Food marketing sets children up for healthful lives by instilling in them a habit of eating real food;

As opposed to imaginary food? Who decides what real food is? Oh right. Our newly appointed food police.

Only those with a vested interest in the status quo would argue against creating public policies with these goals.

Sure.

Like people who want to be able to afford food. Obama’s policies have already doubled the prices of some staples. These guys would put most “real food” out of the reach of people.

My vested interest in the status quo is hunger and a need to eat food. Yours probably is too.

Our food system is largely a product of agricultural policies that made sense when the most important public health problem concerning food was the lack of it and when the United States saw “feeding the world” as its mission

Lack of food is still a problem. Lack of liberal fascists isn’t.

A national food policy would lay the foundation for a food system in which healthful choices are accessible to all and in which it becomes possible to nourish ourselves without exploiting other people or nature.

And we’ll pay for it with the money grown on trees.

What does a magical “healthful” food system in which we don’t exploit nature look like? Subsistence food gathering? Maybe we can all live in caves or become serfs. The healthful possibilities are endless. And horrifying.

A well-articulated national food policy in the United States would make it much more difficult for Congress to pass bills that fly in its face.

Four words. Michael Bloomberg soda ban.

Good luck with your War on Food. Just remember that it’s really a war on working families.

  • odin2

    The left is starting to develop a new fear mongering campaign because the global warming campaign to control energy may be exposed by the climate’s lack of cooperation. So now the new campaign is to control food.Control of food will give them great leverage over our lives. If they can control food and energy they will have an ironclad grip on most everything.

  • UCSPanther

    They had better be careful: The lack of food and other necessities sparked many revolutions throughout history…

    • Bamaguje

      May be that’s what they want.
      Leftists are known to seize totalitarian power via revolutions.

    • Pete

      Bad Weather at the end of the Little Ice Age (around the time of the American revolution) lead to bad harvests in France.

      The king actually cared about the plight of the lower classes. He promoted eating potatoes. If I recall correctly, people were loathe to switch from wheat to potatoes. The King put out the message look it is okay, I eat potatoes. It was not enough. I think the last Dowager Empress of China could have done a better job, but there was more a of precedent.

      Anyway short story is the people were starving due to the bad weather and there was a revolution.

      ***

      The Germans unlike the French grew a lot of potatoes, but they were basically forced to by war. During the vicious, nasty 30 Years War wheat fields would be purposefully despoiled or just trampled by passing armies. If peasants grew potatoes, the spuds would survive. If they grew wheat, they would starve.

  • objectivefactsmatter

    It’s like a Skynet argument. You know, people cause all of the problems. We need better planning. We might have to get rid of them. Let’s crunch some numbers.

  • slicerdicer

    I can’t understand these people….This kind of thinking has already been tried and the results was the starvation of many millions of people.

    • truebearing

      Leftists don’t learn from history. They invariably assume that they are a lot smarter than earlier leftists, so everything will work fine once they are running things. Of course, the only thing they have ever run is their big mouths.

      • johnlac

        With leftists, history ended the day after their last failed policy. Time to develop a new failed policy that will save the masses from themselves.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      Progress. It will work eventually. Karl prophesied all of it. Sort of.

  • truebearing

    What a clever argument for trading our liberty for some food. Naturally, in order to “protect us” there will have to be regulations…many regulations. It will require forward thinking, of course. It will require a series of 5 year plans…yeah, that is progress.

    So now the Washington Post is openly promoting laissez faire Fascism. Even our food choices must be dictated by the government. Maybe the delusional fools who wrote this should be deep fried.

  • herb benty

    Man, the Orwellian arrogance and tone! Soylent green, here we come……..I mean, the Dem Progs use Orwell as a playbook, right? PC, regulated existence etc.

  • objectivefactsmatter
  • Pete

    When American’s stop buying self help books, When Americans cancel their health club memberships, and when people’s number #1 concern ceases being their health, I will believe this Washington post tripe.

  • joe kulak

    Great article; I love it when my namesake is mentioned.

  • namberak

    “One People, One Empire, One Leader” Gawd, I love it when they go full-on progtard — it’s a quick reminder of what we fight against!

  • CowboyUp

    The left’s war on food abundance, especially beef and dairy products, has been going on for decades, and is showing significant success (as high prices indicate). They’re just trying to escalate it.

  • glpage

    Just another indication that the left thinks the government owns the people.

  • Scar

    “The food system and the diet it’s created have caused incalculable damage to the health of our people and our land, water and air.” Yeah. Great point. That’s exactly why the life-expectancy in the United States keeps going up. “Only those with a vested interest in the status quo would argue against creating public policies with these goals.” Right. Another great point. The status quo has absolutely no interest in regulating our society into oblivion, does it? This guy’s a real rocket scientist. I wonder if he’s friends with Michelle Obama.

  • redheart

    They also will soon decide what time you go to bed and what time you wake up. No deviation to the government schedule will be allowed.

  • Marie Doyle

    ……..And is this the “HOPE AND CHANGE” that was voted on by the ill informed (2X’s) voters ?