[lbo-talk] Pollan: The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sat Oct 11 12:52:56 PDT 2003


On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Pollan wrote:


> All this would be bad enough if the government weren't doing its best
> to make matters even worse, by recklessly encouraging farmers to
> produce even more unneeded food.

Let me see if I get this straight: we live in a world in which 15 to 20 million people die of malnutrition and starvation every year, and the serious problem here is that farmers are producing too _much_ food. Gotta love the logic of Capital.

Miles



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