crappy American meat

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Aug 8 11:08:37 PDT 2002


What proportion of the american people have much time or energy to give a lot of thought to the details of their diets?

In _Muscles and Blood_ there is an account of the people living in a silver mining town in Montana. The mine threw so much lead dust into the air that people in the town who had never gone near the mine had blue lines in their teeth from the accumulation of arsenic.

All this implicit sneering at _people_ for not having better judgment of food or better judgment of their union leaders or more sense than to drive SUVs pisses me off royally.

I don't know if it is counterproductive from a radical reformist perspective. It is certainly counterproductive from any marxist perspective. The posts _sound like_ they are attacking the purveyors of bad meat etc. But tht is not how they come across. They come across as attacking the u.s. working class for being genetically inferior.

Carrol



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