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How important is our food to us? For all of human history, the most important thing to people has been where their food comes from. Suddenly, in just a couple of generations, we've lost that knowledge. That loss has come at a cost to our health, our economy, and our environment. Agribusiness and corporate food industry has taken control of the process and told us, "you don't have to worry about that...we'll take care of it", and we have let them. Now we find ourselves in a health crisis - because of poor nutrition in our junk food diet - a cultural crisis because of the loss of small farms - and an environmental crisis because of the fuel intensive pesticides and petrochemicals going into our food system.
_As stated in a recent Time Magazine article: Farm policies are a welfare program for the mega farms that use the most fuel, water and pesticides: emit the most greenhouse gas; grow the most fattening crops; have the most illegals; and depopulate rural America.
_This is scary stuff and we need to vote with our pocketbooks against it. There is a wonderful article worth reading in the New York Times Magazine on this very subject. It was written by Michael Pollen (author of Omnivores Dilemma) and is an open letter to the next president. It is called "In Chief".
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