<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Obama’s campaign ag adviser mounts a weak defense of industrial food]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by archigeek http://www.grist.org/article/Agribusiness-as-usual/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:39:09 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Agribusiness-as-usual/1 Ha...

It's clear who butters the bread of these whores. Why is everyone so surprised at the fact that the school lunch program has deteriorated into just another "profit center" for Big Ag? This tool Matz is clearly interested in finding "solutions" only if they benefit his corporate constituents. Oh, hell, why bother...

The mellotron is your friend.

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It's clear who butters the bread of these whores. Why is everyone so surprised at the fact that the school lunch program has deteriorated into just another "profit center" for Big Ag? This tool Matz is clearly interested in finding "solutions" only if they benefit his corporate constituents. Oh, hell, why bother...

The mellotron is your friend.

]]> Comment #2 by tlaskawy http://www.grist.org/article/Agribusiness-as-usual/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:46:24 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Agribusiness-as-usual/2 Don't Blame the Middlemen

Oh, well, okay.  Blame the middlemen.  But the key here is Matz and McGovern's emphasis on massive supplies of cheap food.  We don't need it to feed ourselves - we know that, on a caloric basis, the world produces enough to feed itself.  But when so many of those calories are vacuumed up by the Nestles and McDonalds of the world while the Wal-Marts make unreasonable demands for yield and price, it becomes hard to even conceive of a sustainable food system.

I rant about it here, but it's also true that for all the attention paid to Monsanto, ADM and ConAgra, they're just responding to unreasonable demands from their real customers - the food conglomerates (processing, retail and fast food).  Americans are addicted to cheap, convenient food.  Until that changes, the food industry will do everything in its power to keep on supplying that habit.

Beyond Green http://weaversway.coop/blog/

]]> Don't Blame the Middlemen

Oh, well, okay.  Blame the middlemen.  But the key here is Matz and McGovern's emphasis on massive supplies of cheap food.  We don't need it to feed ourselves - we know that, on a caloric basis, the world produces enough to feed itself.  But when so many of those calories are vacuumed up by the Nestles and McDonalds of the world while the Wal-Marts make unreasonable demands for yield and price, it becomes hard to even conceive of a sustainable food system.

I rant about it here, but it's also true that for all the attention paid to Monsanto, ADM and ConAgra, they're just responding to unreasonable demands from their real customers - the food conglomerates (processing, retail and fast food).  Americans are addicted to cheap, convenient food.  Until that changes, the food industry will do everything in its power to keep on supplying that habit.

Beyond Green http://weaversway.coop/blog/

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