Posted by Snow in 
There can be no greater wake up call to the exceptionably costly obesity and tainted food supply Americans eat than the TIME magazine article of the August 31, 2009 edition. The real cost of food is our long term health, our short term waistlines, and our middle distance betting on the wrong values to keep us fed.
The barn door has to be shut (albeit after the cows of bad eating habits, obesity statistics, and explosive fat calories per inch became household words. Anyone out there thinking lap band surgery is fun or that bariatric surgery is a viable option hasn’t read the facts about co-morbidities and mortality rates. These surgeries have real and deadly risks.
The way beef is raised in our coutnry before being shipped to the stores is an untold secret despite all the documentaries and PBS programming. The crammed pens, bovine antibiotics (which you can buy on Ebay), and hormone appetizers cows are fed on make that burger down the street a sickening reminder of man’s inhumanity to fellow diners.
The sustainable way to raise cows just doesn’t seem to make industrial sense to the people in charge of the beef industry, who have gotten used to maing a profit.
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On the flip side, there is an artist making delicate art out of discarded McDonald’s fast food wrapping litter. Talk about not seeing the disintegrating rainforest for the recycled paper trees….
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