Politics on Your Plate

Everyone should know about Earl Butz. He was the Secretary of Agriculture  from 1971 to 1976 while former presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were in office. An alumni from Purdue University, he was responsible for industrializing our food so that we can have an infinite supply of it unlike pre-world war times. Fears that the U.S. may relive another great depression, he felt that it was necessary to pay farmers to grow more produce and if they could not then farmers were paid to relinquish their land. In the process of this, chemicals like nitrogen were fed to plants so that they grew more and were more sustainable. Now prior to this, many Americans could not afford to pay farmers for their fresh food which was the reason why many starved during the great depression. So by having  these convenience foods prepared in factories, it developed cheaper, and significantly low quality food. As a result, the next few generations of Americans were rapidly becoming obese.

In addition to these health problems that stemmed from the new low quality food, government health care spending increased and many Americans were in debt from paying for health care. Better quality food should have been the most important government expenditure. Unfortunately, it was not. In a utopian world it would have been.

The government allowed major companies like Monsanto that supplied guns and armor to the military, to use harmful pesticides on our crops and engender soy beans to be used on every farm. Why is the military involved in our food and medicine. Its just morally-incorrect.

Why should politics and science in our food be acceptable? We are humans not experiments. Why don't we place nutrition as the prime important aspect of our lives? Because we've been brainwashed! It was silently done by chemically induced foods that enhances flavor that we tend to think we need. It was also done by the popular rise of television media. Do not let them fool you! Fool me once shame on You, fool me twice shame on Me.

Living in a world where profits matter more than the greater good of society, the well-being of humanity is often overlooked. Hey, population was not much of a problem before the industrialization of food...

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