The Upchuck Rebellion - Good Food movement

[shugah]

The Good Food movement is leading the charge against expensive, nutrient-free, artificial, unhealthy, corporate crap-food.

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What has caused us to stray so far from the farm, so far from the essential and wonderful sustenance provided by nature itself? The answer, of course, is that the brute force of corporate power has been applied both in politics and the marketplace to pervert our food economy. During the past half century, control over our nation's food policies has shifted from farmers and consumers to corporate lawyers, lobbyists and economists. These are people who could not run a watermelon stand if we gave them the melons and had the highway patrol flag down customers for them! Yet they're in charge, saddling us with a food system that enriches corporate middlemen while driving good farmers off the land, poisoning our productive soil and water supplies, and literally sickening those who consume these adulterated foodstuffs.

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More than declaring … they're taking action. Part of this effort is political, trying to get the industrializers and globalizers to clean up their act. At another level, however, America's food rebels are taking on the idea of industrialization itself by creating their own alternative food economies. These are based on local farmers, seasonal consumption, organic and sustainable production, local food processors and artisans, and local markets. The goals are (1) to build a system that delivers tastier, healthier food; (2) to keep a community's food dollars in the local economy; and (3) to treat food not as a corporate commodity, but as a centerpiece of our culture.

Naturally, the Powers That Be have howled in derision at these efforts, sneering that local farmers, consumers, entrepreneurs, chefs, marketers, gardeners, environmentalists, workers, churches, co-ops, community organizers and just plain citizens simply don't have the savvy to create and run any kind of significant food system. However, my friend John Dromgoole, who runs a successful natural gardening and composting center in Austin, has a snappy retort to these elites: "Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

more: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/33950/

another great article by Jim Hightower!

[Warpy]

1. If this doesn't get you off corporate, processed food

then you may be hopelessly addicted to grease and garbage: http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0744/index.html

It's one of the funniest descriptions of hyper processed, oversalted, overfatted microwaveable dreck I've ever seen.

I'm crossposting it from the Cooking group to here. Seems like it's what Hightower is talking about.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I will never eat breakfast again.