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  Why not simply eliminate this entire bureaucracy, return to taxpayers / consumers the money spent to run it, and let us manage and regulate the food we eat on our own? This Big Ag post takes billions annually from our pockets, and funnels it over to farm companies making food that people like you and I would never eat. But due to the government taking this power, we are forced -- effectively -- to pay for something that we oppose. 

  Instead of begging a distant president to appoint Alice Waters, why not just abandon this entire government operation? Let me have my money currently taken by the government and handed to Monsanto, and let me use it to buy fresh, local, natural. If my neighbor wants to use his money to purchase MSG-laden junk food, let him have that freedom; and let me have mine.

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  At least the kid in the photo has 100% juice. School food is absolutely horrible. Tom, when will you consider using school vouchers as a way for sophisticated parents to obtain control over their schools, rather than relying on a few guys on top of an enromous, billion-dollar, national pyramid to make the choices that a few of us want? Imagine how much power parents would have if they controled where their $12k annual per student check went?

  Not that I can report here in the Detrot area that we private school parents have any better choices: even at the private schools, not enough parents here care or know about food for the private schools to serve anything that a food savy person would eat, or permit his kids to eat. But I have an easier task convincing a tipping point's worth of fellow students to request real food, than I would convincing a federal beuracracy! 

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  Great article, more please

  Great writing. Keep 'em coming.On Day one at the foodie blowout in Italy posted 1 year ago 2 Responses

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  Why no wildcard?

  I wish you guys would have tossed in one or more despicable samples, say from detested Starbucks, just to see where it would have come out.On A review of six Central American coffees posted 1 year, 6 months ago 18 Responses

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  I demur

  1. Bush did explain why 911 justified invading Iraq and planting there a free market democracy: economyhttp://reformedleftist.blogspot.com/2006/10/bushs-iraq-in ...

  2. Under what pretext would Bush have implemented such a plan on Saudi Arabia? That some of its citizens without government support had attacked the US?

  3. Isn't Syria supporting the Sunni tyrants attacking US forces?

  4. I also don't understand why the Shia tyrants are attacking the US forces who made their tyranny possible in the first place. But my friends serving over there are certain that the missles and other munitions coming out of Sadr city are (a) fired by Shia and (b) provided by Iran.
  On Here we go again posted 2 years, 8 months ago 10 Responses