If you’ll forgive the unfortunate Batman reference in the title, I must say that I’m glad our worst fears haven’t yet come to pass. We’re at a major fork in the road, and there’s still a chance that we’ll prove to be a reality-based nation after all. For the last 60-plus years, and especially over the past 8…we haven’t so much been ‘told’, as we’ve had it jammed down our throats relentlessly that food is just another commodity best left to international commodity traders and chemical companies. Unsurprisingly, globalization as defined by those types in this area has proven to be a massive failure, as has everything else based upon their theories.
The simple fact is that our food system is completely broken. We’re drive-thruing ourselves to ruin while trying to drown out the sounds of our destruction with the popping of Pringles…
If we intend to remain a “first-world” nation, we need to ensure we have the bare basics to begin with. Like food, which comes from our soil…the health of which directly impacts the nutrients contained in same.
It’s time we had people in positions of power in Washington who understood that, people like Jim Riddle.
Crossposted as always from La Vida Locavore, jump below the fold…