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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Peter Jennings on Farm, Food, and Obesity
  • Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:30:06 -0500

On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:48:03 -0500, you wrote:

>Greetings, all!
>
>I agree, government policies and corporate food are *helping* to make
>people fat - mostly by controlling and limiting the food supply, and by
>educating people to eat the wrong things.
>
>But we also have to take responsibility for our own actions.
>Culturally, don't we remember how to eat well - and just not want to?

I think this was a rhetorical question, but I'm going to
answer anyway: No, culturally many, many of us do NOT
remember how to eat well.

All you need to do is to look at people's carts in
supermarkets to be convinced of this. Many people just seem
to have no clue whatsoever about nutrition. I think this is
partly because Americans' taste (in general) has become so
depraved by so many years of eating chemicalized,
over-processed foods. Many people wouldn't recognize fresh,
natural food even if it stood up and whistled Dixie.

It doesn't help that we no longer produce much local food.
The fresh fruits and veggies in supermarkets are usually of
really poor quality because of being shipped long distances
and being grown specifically for their keeping qualities,
rather than taste. No wonder people don't like them!

Even the frozen vegetables are no longer of good quality
compared to what they were like even as recently as a decade
ago. The vegetables I grow myself and freeze for use in
winter are orders of magnitude better than any frozen
vegetables I can buy.

Pat




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