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.





















