RE: Corn, overproduction, alcoholism, obesity (a must read!)

["Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an understandable reluctance to let Big Food off
the hook. Yet by devising ever more ingenious ways to
induce us to consume the surplus calories our farmers are
producing, the food industry is only playing by a set of
rules written by our government. (And maintained, it is
true, with the industry's political muscle.) The political
challenge now is to rewrite those rules, to develop a new
set of agricultural policies that don't subsidize overproduction
 -- and overeating. For unless we somehow deal with the
mountain of cheap grain that makes the Happy Meal
and the Double Stuf Oreo such ''bargains,'' the
calories are guaranteed to keep coming.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/magazine/12WWLN.html



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