Wagyuu is Japanese beef i.e. it is shipped a long distance. Japan also has had a number of cases of mad cow disease i.e. their feed policy/practice has included dangerous bovine cannibalism, though to be fair I am not certain if this applies to the type of premium beef that gets labeled as Wagyuu).

So, instead of being able to bash Bush one last time for feasting on unborn baby dolphins cooked in Halliburton Texas light crude, Mr. Philpott has to trail off into a lame rant about the terrible agri-biz industry that provides cheap food in abundance to feed the non-elites.

Tsk, tsk, can't tell you how much that wrings my heart...

You know, I find it ironic that Bush -- who would have us all surrounded by toxic sludge, industrial mono-cropped gm farms, flattened mountain tops, and working in deregulated industries in the name of protecting the "economy" -- protects himself from harmful pesticide residues and stressed hormone & anti-biotic laden beef.  He doesn't have to worry about the environment, about food safety, about nutrition, about health care, or any of the other things we drones must endure because he has the wealth and the power to eat well.  

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Ghandi

I think this is an excellent post, and speaks to a long-time concern of mine with certified organic food--that it will evolve into a system where excellent, carefully and cleanly grown organic food will be the fare of the rich, and the rest will eat dangerous cheap food that is perhaps no longer even nominally regulated. It also brings up the fact we heard years ago, that Bush had solar panels on his Crawford ranch, while squelching any public investment in renewable energy.

Think you mean Danny Meyer, not "Denny Mayer"?