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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] What's wrong in "Thanksgiving's Hidden Costs"
  • Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:17:42 -0700


In Thanksgiving's Hidden Costs http://www.alternet.org/story/20556/ the
writer states:

There are paths to a better way: muscular antitrust measures to break up
corporate control over food; subsidy reform that shifts payments (currently
$15-20 billion a year) from large-scale agribusiness to ecologically
sustainable diversified farms; aggressive regulation (and enforcement) of the
meat industry's shoddy food safety practices and mistreatment of its workers;
a serious reduction in the 500,000 tons of toxic pesticides dumped on our
food each year; and major public investment in community food security
projects that link together small local producers and consumers to supply
healthy, affordable, sustainably produced food (the USDA ladled out just $4.6
million for such efforts last year).

There are many other promising trends afloat – movements to expand farmers'
markets, serve organic foods in schools, and to encourage institutions like
schools and hospitals to purchase local organic food whenever possible.

-------- and I disagree completely with all those solutions. After a good,
hard-hitting analysis of what's wrong with our food systems, the writer
allows the solutions to be limited to government action. That's the same
government, by the way, that created all these problems in the first place.

Anyone care to outline the only solution that can possibly work? If not, I
WILL.


paul@largocreekfarms.com
http://medicinehill.net







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