tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716771656140639209.post5172557638316158758..comments2023-09-20T03:05:56.769-06:00Comments on The Tall Thin Guy: Our Upside-Down Food PolicyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716771656140639209.post-17806742974705272282010-10-03T10:34:25.272-06:002010-10-03T10:34:25.272-06:00For the Post, that's a pretty good article. It...For the Post, that's a pretty good article. It does a good job of surveying the territory and makes some great references. However, there seems to be a disconnect between the Physician's Committee's image and the source data provided by EWG. It looks like anyone can make the numbers sound like whatever they want. They seem to be very skewed and misleading. <br /><br />Using EWG's top 20 subsidies for foods we eat in the pyramids shown <br />Grains: 1.Corn, 2. Wheat, 5. Soybeans<br />Meat/Dairy: 9.Dairy, 10.Livestock<br />Nuts/Apples: 15.Nuts, 18.Apples<br /><br />Subsidies actually look like this:<br />Grains get 91% NOT 14% (11 servings daily)<br />Meat/dairy get 6% NOT 74% (6 servings daily)<br />Nuts/apples get 3% NOT 2% (9 servings daily)<br /><br />And for crying out loud, what age group are we talking here? If I ate that much food from the government guide I'd turn diabetic from obesity and need government healthcare. <br /><br />In either case, it sounds like profit by force is the right thing to do. It's just an ongoing legislative battle as to who gets to have the legislated profits. What started out as a "save the farmers" program for the Great Depression is now the policy that attempts to control what food ends up on my table and who profits from it. <br /><br />Good, bad, or indifferent, I do know I don't like melons, and can't stand broccoli, ICK! <br /><br />Under what circumstances is it OK to use force on another adult human being?<br /><br />Of all the people in the entire world, who is the best person who is in the best position to make the best decision for you? Then who's in the best position to make decisions for me? <br /><br />Why do people think its the right thing to do to tell me what's the right thing for me to do? <br /><br />If all I want to do is peacefully make my own decisions for my life and put my money and purchases to the people who support my lifestyle (not the bureaucrats), what does that make me?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com