How we eat: the root of most evil

While on the topic of Heathcare reform, it is related to another topic that I feel very passionate about. The way we eat.

Simply put, the way we eat is unhealthful, inhumane, and unsustainable.

Unhealthful: it's well documented by Michael Pollan and the like that we need to eat food, mostly plants, and not too much. Processed foods, meat, etc cause diabetes and cancer. This is well documented and proven so I won't bother here. In short, eat plants and seeds and nuts. And some fish.

Inhumane: Factory farming is well documented to cause misery to billions of animals each year.

Unsustainable: we simply can't keep eating like this. The green/global warming people are way misguided. The real culprit is our food (esp meat production which drives corn production) that causes the problems we have now. The Meatless Monday campaign says that if we cut out meat on Mondays, that would do more for global warming than giving everyone in the US a hybrid car.

So, I see our food system at the root of most of the evil in America: our health crisis, our environmental crisis, and, by extension, our disastrous energy and defense policy

Dear American Citizen: you need to fix this, do NOT rely on the government. Eat Plants.