Unhealthy, Unsafe and Unsustainable

Our food system in America. What do we do about it? Well, Mark Bittman writing for the New York Times has a few good ideas. Here are a couple:

• Tax the marketing and sale of unhealthful foods. Another budget booster. This isn’t nanny-state paternalism but an accepted role of government: public health. If you support seat-belt, tobacco and alcohol laws, sewer systems and traffic lights, you should support legislation curbing the relentless marketing of soda and other foods that are hazardous to our health — including the sacred cheeseburger and fries.

• Mandate truth in labeling. Nearly everything labeled “healthy” or “natural” is not. It’s probably too much to ask that “vitamin water” be called “sugar water with vitamins,” but that’s precisely what real truth in labeling would mean.

Now, go read the rest.

Though You May Have Seen It...

Here is what a so-called "Happy Meal" looks like after 180 days:

Just search for "happy meal" on the Google and you will get the story, which is essentially the same as this picture, but with rabble.