This article by Michale Pollan was basically about how are current food system is not sustainable and in time will cause our planet and our species great harm. Frances Moore Lappes wrote a book called Diet for a Small Planet about forty years ago and it was the first to point out this fact. Until only recently has the congress passed any legislation committed to this issue. Media has been the biggest platform to get this message out but these reforms could make food more expensive and this will never be popular. The movement is gaining strength due to the fact that in the long run the cost of health care will increase dramatically due to our poor diets. Massachusetts leads in legislation with a tax on soda to lower the rate of type two diabetes and obesity
The writer used many points between the cost of health care in the tobacco industry and the rising health care cost of our poor diets, which caused the more powerful people in the government to take a tougher stand on smoking. The congress only has a group of five who are committed to the fight. Obama campaign on this platform but realizes there is not enough support, so he may have his wife out beating the drum to get the support. The writers strategy was to point out how our diets have been an all but a forgotten problem until very recently and how big business still has a strangle hold on the legislation passed through congress. I thought this article was very informative and had many good points but until the price isn't an issue i don't see this getting much publicity. It really is to bad because we must understand the life is very fragile and we can only do so much harm to ourselves and our planet before the content are to broken to put back together.
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