You are what you grow
Michael Pollan, who writes a lot about the sad and curious state of US nutrition hits us with another article, You Are What You Grow. I first discovered his writing when Sean forwarded me an article on processed foods, I later put it together that he was also the author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which I’d been meaning to read for some time.
Anyhow this article, like many of his others, is definitely worth a read. It discusses the perverse situation where the farm bill which subsidizes corn, soy and wheat production makes it cheaper to produce completely processed food than it is to produce natural food. How it is directly responsible for obesity in poorer families because it is significantly more expensive to buy real food than it is to buy high calorie/low nutritional value foods. The farm bill also adversely impacts the environment, international trade and all sorts of other badnesses. Even the WTO, no bastion of friendship to the masses, has ruled that the US cotton subsidies are illegal.
Check out the article, it’s quite interesting and while kind of depressing ends with just a touch of hope.
