Support local farms in your area that are clean when possible. Learn about homesteading and educate your children early on where real food comes from. Our future depends on it.
Exactly -- they are increasing our dependency but we are partners in the devil's bargain. We not only can, but we MUST, liberate us from this food tyranny. He who controls the food, controls the people: People who control their own food are free as well as healthier.
I’m increasingly convinced that the only way to get healthy food and decide what that means is by having a field based cost effective testing system which can take anything you put in your mouth and run a nutrient / toxicity score. Nutrient score as the numerator and toxicity score as the denominator = Nut tox score. If a device can calculate total macros, total micronutrients and total amount and types of toxins for a low price and is portable that would change everything about food (of course the scores themselves could be gamed if the FDA gets its hands on it).
Our problem of not knowing our head from our ass when it comes to nutritional integrity and toxicity of food is that the FDA’s (and many large well funded Schools of Nutrition) official food rating system is something out of a Salvador Dali painting: absolutely surreal (and if you follow it your face will melt off). According to the Tufts Food Compass (see what the FDA did there - we are just “trusting the science” of an Ivy League Nutrition Program) that taxpayers paid for, fruit loops are healthier than steak and eggs, and by a lot (about double the score). Take a look at the Tufts Food Compass and you will realize what we are up against. And we know Kellogg’s pays to be higher up on that list and many other processed food manufacturers. This is a blatant example of corporate corruption where scale has allowed corrupt companies to bribe regulators to get preferential treatment (and why bribe about fruit loops and not about beef? - both are mostly produced by large multinationals: because fruit loops have about 10x the profit margin to beef).
I explain this all day everyday to everyone I meet: that government regulations don’t make you safer and richer, they make you imperiled and impoverished. I am unconvinced that the FDA, the USDA or any government agency has any role in making our food safer. Before their existence our food was more nutritious and less toxic. Instead of pretending that the FDA is “here to help” we should remove regulations and empower the free market to decide what food should be eaten and by whom. The market is quite good at ridding the food supply of toxins and increasing nutrition, because with a variety of choice consumers will choose which food is best for them. This of course requires education and cost effective field based food testing, but I am confident that is an easier logistical nut to crack than reforming agencies filled with career leeches. The purpose of government regulation in an ideal world is for the government to step in between two people wishing to participate in voluntary exchange and prevent them from doing so in order to "protect" one or both parties. This results in a populace that is docile, undiscerning and incapable of judging their own best interests: welcome to 21st century America. It won’t get better ‘til we take our responsibility back. Responsibility deferred is tyranny guaranteed.
Amen! Amen! I couldn't agree more, and people are waking up to this dystopian reality.
I must commend you for this line: "...the FDA’s (and many large well-funded Schools of Nutrition) official food rating system is something out of a Salvador Dali painting: absolutely surreal (and if you follow it your face will melt off)."
I almost want to steal that for an article I am writing today about FDAs new anti-cigarette shift, which I perceive is a watch-the-birdie effort to pretend they have some legitimacy and distract us from looking at their abysmal, persistent failures in food policy.
Support local farms in your area that are clean when possible. Learn about homesteading and educate your children early on where real food comes from. Our future depends on it.
I like your comment because it brings the responsibility back to us rather than outsourcing to any regulatory bodies or political figures.
Exactly -- they are increasing our dependency but we are partners in the devil's bargain. We not only can, but we MUST, liberate us from this food tyranny. He who controls the food, controls the people: People who control their own food are free as well as healthier.
And eat seasonally.
Absolutely 100% amen!!
I’m increasingly convinced that the only way to get healthy food and decide what that means is by having a field based cost effective testing system which can take anything you put in your mouth and run a nutrient / toxicity score. Nutrient score as the numerator and toxicity score as the denominator = Nut tox score. If a device can calculate total macros, total micronutrients and total amount and types of toxins for a low price and is portable that would change everything about food (of course the scores themselves could be gamed if the FDA gets its hands on it).
Our problem of not knowing our head from our ass when it comes to nutritional integrity and toxicity of food is that the FDA’s (and many large well funded Schools of Nutrition) official food rating system is something out of a Salvador Dali painting: absolutely surreal (and if you follow it your face will melt off). According to the Tufts Food Compass (see what the FDA did there - we are just “trusting the science” of an Ivy League Nutrition Program) that taxpayers paid for, fruit loops are healthier than steak and eggs, and by a lot (about double the score). Take a look at the Tufts Food Compass and you will realize what we are up against. And we know Kellogg’s pays to be higher up on that list and many other processed food manufacturers. This is a blatant example of corporate corruption where scale has allowed corrupt companies to bribe regulators to get preferential treatment (and why bribe about fruit loops and not about beef? - both are mostly produced by large multinationals: because fruit loops have about 10x the profit margin to beef).
I explain this all day everyday to everyone I meet: that government regulations don’t make you safer and richer, they make you imperiled and impoverished. I am unconvinced that the FDA, the USDA or any government agency has any role in making our food safer. Before their existence our food was more nutritious and less toxic. Instead of pretending that the FDA is “here to help” we should remove regulations and empower the free market to decide what food should be eaten and by whom. The market is quite good at ridding the food supply of toxins and increasing nutrition, because with a variety of choice consumers will choose which food is best for them. This of course requires education and cost effective field based food testing, but I am confident that is an easier logistical nut to crack than reforming agencies filled with career leeches. The purpose of government regulation in an ideal world is for the government to step in between two people wishing to participate in voluntary exchange and prevent them from doing so in order to "protect" one or both parties. This results in a populace that is docile, undiscerning and incapable of judging their own best interests: welcome to 21st century America. It won’t get better ‘til we take our responsibility back. Responsibility deferred is tyranny guaranteed.
Amen! Amen! I couldn't agree more, and people are waking up to this dystopian reality.
I must commend you for this line: "...the FDA’s (and many large well-funded Schools of Nutrition) official food rating system is something out of a Salvador Dali painting: absolutely surreal (and if you follow it your face will melt off)."
I almost want to steal that for an article I am writing today about FDAs new anti-cigarette shift, which I perceive is a watch-the-birdie effort to pretend they have some legitimacy and distract us from looking at their abysmal, persistent failures in food policy.
Borrow away Mr. Klar. Thank you for all the work you do.
I did not! Thanks for the tip!
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