Excerpts from The Nation (hard gulp)

Why are there so few followers of Christ being persuasive about these important health issues? Why does the "environmental whacko" left "own" these issues? Hey, I'm a "RUSH BABY", deal with it.

"Organic foods seem elitist only because industrial food is artificially cheap, with its real costs being charged to the public purse, the public health and the environment. "
"An American shopping for food on a budget soon discovers that a dollar buys hundreds more calories in the snack food or soda aisle than it does in the produce section. Why? Because the farm bill supports the growing of corn but not the growing of fresh carrots. In the midst of a national epidemic of diabetes and obesity our government is, in effect, subsidizing the production of high-fructose corn syrup."

I hate high fructose corn syrup. We avoid it as much as possible. Not surprisingly, it is hard to find salad dressing that does not contain it. We are hard pressed to find any syrup, beverage, or candy in our grocery stores (maybe that's the problem right there...?) that doesn't contain it.

Three cheers for local, sustainable, diverse food!