Comments on: The Supreme Court and food politics

By: Here’s Why Coke is Stronger than the Government | Fooducate

Here’s Why Coke is Stronger than the Government | Fooducate — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:36:23 +0000

[...] with the recent supreme court decision to allow unlimited campaign contribution by companies to our politicians, you can rest assured [...]

By: GS

GS — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:06:00 +0000

This is pretty ridiculous. It seems obvious to me that if individuals have a right to free speech, so do collections of individuals. When you stand by principles such as free speech, you often get people saying things you do not like. However, the alternative is that speech is regulated, and if it is regulated, than who decides this? If you think the majority should decide by voting who gets to say what, that can lead down a very dangerous path. Most of the atrocities in the history of man have been done with the support of the majority.

The problem with the comments on this page is that they are all based on tyranny – that the people should rise up and FORCE other people to do what they believe to be right. I’m guessing by what people are saying here that they have no problem in people rising up to make gay marriage illegal if enough people feel that way. Or do you commentators think you have the only correct worldview? Once again that tends to lead to attrocities.

I think the best approach is to allow people to make their own choices.

By: Winter Shiitake Stew with Polenta « Amy Cotler The Locavore Way

Winter Shiitake Stew with Polenta « Amy Cotler The Locavore Way — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:26:06 +0000

[...] news for locavores: The supreme court and food politics on Marion Nestle’s excellent [...]

By: My Pure Diet. Health News & Supplements.

My Pure Diet. Health News & Supplements. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:13:41 +0000

[...] care about creating a good, clean, fair, and sustainable food system will have to work harder now, she writes at her blog, Food Politics. And in an article at Food Safety News, she says, "all I can do is [...]

By: Cassie

Cassie — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:25:29 +0000

I say we just go ahead and elect corporations. After all, that’s who really runs the U.S. anyway –why not just be honest about it?

By: PageRank Check

PageRank Check — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:39:42 +0000

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By: Subvert

Subvert — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:44:47 +0000

The key now is getting the mass of unhappy and fed up people together to rally for the real good of citizens, (I wouldn’t call it ‘change’, as that word has been bastardized) rather than disbursing into fringe Tea-Party like groups out of desparation, thereby limiting power. There are a heck of a lot more of US than THEM…

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:52:32 +0000

If the current administration was bought and paid for by the Service Employees Union we would have card check passed….. so thats not true. If its bought by anyone its the Health Insurance Companies.(Corporations!) this decision will only make that worse, now it wil be bought by many corporations at once. Remember the Service Workers Union is not a corporation its a group of employees banded together to FIGHT for their rights Against the corporations. Wake up! we should all have such a group of workers in our workplace–the corporations don’t have our best interests at heart–only their bottom line…This is a slippery slope towards the working conditions of India.

By: Carolyn Kay

Carolyn Kay — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:30:37 +0000

Public financing of congressional

By: Really

Really — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:39:29 +0000

Wow

so none of you work with any organizations that one day might want to lobby the national government?

The Current administration is bought and paid for by the Service Employees International Union (Guess which organization has visited with the president more than the leader of the house?)

What exactly are you expecting in reform from this guy anyways? what in his first year has he done for middle class Americans? Nothing