Food Politics

Actually, that’s very exciting.

They’re only slightly lagging behind Michelle Obama, ahaha.

It’s good to see the USDA also understanding the concept behind organic, because organic rules originally left much to be desired.

There was a great idea (the article was quite short) published on NPR yesterday!

“Back To Basics: Good For You, Good For The Earth”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103323943
Since eating less meat (and dairy, eggs, etc.) is the number 1 change a person can make to benefit the environment, I really like this idea. Doing small things are helpful, but very little coverage is given to decreasing meat consumption, despite the UN report showing how people can have a much greater impact then, say, eating local foods. But it all helps! Local, IN SEASON; organics, reduced meat intake.

“It’s that simple, and it’s been dubbed VB6 — Vegan Before 6.”
check out the article (=

Yeah, well, the idea of “reduce meat consumption” depends on what you replace it with. A lot of people want you to replace it with palm oil, which definitely is bad for global warming.

The real debate on meat and global warming is based on a lot of assumptions: An assumption that we’re just throwing away the organs, an assumption that we must eat from the industrial food system (so they can count trucks to ship animal feed, and trucks to ship the meat vs. simply counting going to the farmer’s market for both meat and bread), etc.

And of course, the grain-based monoculture the animal rights people want to replace it with is bad for the environment; it wiped out Mesopotamian civilization.