Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

   [Barb and I have kicked this around, and great as it is Jamie does miss an 
essential connection. The snag as I see it:  Huntington and the whole country 
simply haven't seen the avalanche of evidence against the processed villains 
- high fructose corn syrup, transfats, MSG and all its disguises, refined 
flour and refined sugar. Without hearing this, all they hear from Jamie is 
how our food is crap (which it of course is). And to his great credit he does 
tie it to the cost of our degenerative diseases, and to lack of real cooking. 
All in all, a major breakthrough.]

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Excerpts:

Chef Jamie Oliver: Why the U.S. Is One of the Unhealthiest Countries in the 
World
'My wish is for you to help a strong, sustainable movement to educate every 
child about food, to inspire families to cook again, and to empower people 
everywhere to fight obesity.'
http://www.alternet.org/vision/146185/chef_jamie_oliver%3A_why_the_u.s._is_one_of_the_unhealthiest_countries_in_the_world?page=entire

   Sadly, in the next 18 minutes when I do our chat, four Americans who are 
alive, will be dead from the food that they eat. My name's Jamie Oliver. I'm 
34 years old. I'm from Essex in England and for the last seven years I've 
worked fairly tirelessly to save lives in my own way. I'm not a doctor, I'm a 
chef. I don't have expensive equipment or medicine. I use information, 
education. I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in 
our homes that binds us to the best bits of life. We have an awful, awful 
reality right now. America, you're at the top of your game. This is one of 
the most unhealthy countries in the world.

   Right? The statistics of bad health are clear, very clear. We spend our 
lives being paranoid about death, murder, homicide, you name it. It's on the 
front page of every paper, CNN. Look at homicide at the bottom, for God's 
sake. Right? Every single one of those in the red is a diet-related disease. 
Any doctor, any specialist will tell you that. Fact. Diet-related disease is 
the biggest killer in the United States, right now, here today. This is a 
global problem. It's a catastrophe. It's sweeping the world. England is right 
behind you, as usual.

   I know they were close, but not that close. We need a revolution. Mexico, 
Australia, Germany, India, China, all have massive problems of obesity and 
bad health. Think about smoking. It costs way less than obesity now. Obesity 
costs you Americans 10 percent of your health care bills. 150 billion dollars 
a year. In 10 years, it's set to double. 300 billion dollars a year. And 
let's be honest, guys, you ain't got that cash.

   I came here to start a food revolution that I so profoundly believe in. We 
need it. The time is now. We're in a tipping-point moment. I've been doing 
this for seven years. I've been trying in America for seven years. Now is the 
time when it's ripe -- ripe for the picking. I went to the eye of the storm. 
I went to West Virginia, the most unhealthy state in America.

   Let's start with the Main Street. Fast food has taken over the whole 
country. We know that. The big brands are some of the most important powers, 
powerful powers in this country. Supermarkets as well. Big companies. Big 
companies. Thirty years ago, most of the food was largely local and largely 
fresh. Now it's largely processed and full of all sorts of additives, extra 
ingredients, and you know the rest of the story. Portion size is obviously a 
massive, massive problem. Labeling is a massive problem.The labeling in this 
country is a disgrace. They want to be self ... They want to self-police 
themselves. The industry wants to self-police themselves. What, in this kind 
of climate? They don't deserve it. How can you say something is low-fat when 
it's full of so much sugar?

   Watch the video:
http://www.alternet.org/vision/146185/chef_jamie_oliver%3A_why_the_u.s._is_one_of_the_unhealthiest_countries_in_the_world?page=entire