According to a recent cover story in TIME magazine, “food is increasingly bad for us, even dangerous” and blamed obesity on American agriculture. This is one of the reasons why print is dying. They don't do actual journalism; they just print propaganda. Food is dangerous? That's reminiscent of the formerly famous Ames tests for carcinogens. That was another "scare you to death" media playup. It sort of blew up after it was revealed that the Ames tests indicated that two essential amino acids were carcinogenic.
Huh. Essential, as in "must have in order to live".
Obesity has nothing to do with agriculture, but it has everything to do with people who lack self-control. Certainly, there are a small percentage of people who are genetically predisposed to store fat, but in most cases, fat folks just plain pork out. Agriculture has nothing to do with it - electronics and packaging encourage obesity.
Fortunately, Multnomah County (which can't maintain its bridges, nor open the jail that has never been used since it was completed some 4-5 years ago) is working hard to help folks out on the food end of things. Judging from the article in The Oregonian, it's easy to see why they're losing subscribers at a death-spiral pace:
Amber Meyer doesn't need university studies or proclamations from experts to tell her something's wrong with the U.S. food system.
Amber has four kids that she and her husband can't support. Yet of course the big Zero doesn't touch upon the all-important "carbon footprint" - not for this article. No, we can ignore all of the usual propaganda in order to focus upon the heart-rending tale of a couple of folks who make chronically bad decisions in life. Riding in to the rescue is Multnomah County's "sustainability manager".
Say what? A county that can't open brand-new prisons, nor keep its bridges in repair, somehow has enough cash to toss around to fund things like "sustainability managers"? Note to MultCo: that's not sustainable.
"We have a crisis and many people consider our food system broken," said Kat West, the county's sustainability manager.
"It's a very big, daunting task ... but somebody has got to lead and we think we are up to the challenge."
Well, as BO's good buddy Rahm says, you should never let a good crisis go to waste. Unfortunately for Kat, this isn't a crisis - it's just another example of governmental stupidity.
It's only a matter of time before we begin to equal the idiocy seen today in Formerly Great Britain, where governmental intrusion into every aspect of life has permeated even into the area of nursery rhymes. "For goodness sake. Obviously children will find it far too violent, distressing and horrific that Humpty should not be put back together again."
And so the tale was altered: rather than "couldn't put Humpty together again" all the King's horses "made Humpty happy again".
Apparently, sex with equines is okay.
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