[hispanarepublicana]

As long as I don't have to eat recycled food.

[Cicero]

This comes from the Reason Foundation? The author sounds like a flat earther.

We already have too many people in America who don't know where anything comes from. They turn on the faucet and get water, plug in a lamp and get light, and have no appreciation of what lies behind these things.

As for food, fresh grown and local grown is certainly tastier and healthier than stuff that was picked when it wasn't ripe yet and shipped across the country.

If you've tasted fresh eggs or free-range chickens, you wouldn't want to eat the other stuff unless you have to. A lot of people have no choice, but even in the city you don't have to buy Tyson chickens or Velveeta. Ugh.

[fone]

Cool.

Let me sell this guy some mushrooms I've got growing in my backyard since tropical storm Isadora went through this week. I mean, since he doesn't care and all. I'll only charge him $3.99 per pound.

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[DoughtyOne]

I don't like the idea of importing much of our food. Some is fine. But there's no way I want to turn our food supply into the next oil cartel type product we're going to get blackmailed over by some third world suicidal maniacs.

[teresat]

As long as I don't have to eat food from Mexico that rots a minute after I buy it...yeah I'm sure Mexico has really high standards...

[goodieD]

bravo! I loved this article (not least of which because I'm what's commonly known as a "foodie".. not a food snob, mind you.. but there's so much wonderful stuff out there available these days, that's it become somewhat of a ..well.. comsuming passion.

[independentmind]

Yuck. I hate Reason magazine. The author lives in his head.

[eggman]

Sounds a bit like how I and my wife both grew up, except we still raise our own chickens and most of our own veggies. I also build and fixing my own computers. Not because I have to, but because I enjoy doing it for myself and I know just how good and fresh it is. And gardening is a great stress reliever.

Of course the food in the stores is fresher and safer than it was 40-50 years ago. But knowing where it comes from and how it was grown doesn't hurt. This guy might be happy eating Soylent Green.

[spodefly]

I even knew the names of the cows and pigs we ate.

Bad advice ... take it from someone who grew up on a farm ... never name your food.

We had a particular steer, a white-face, that always came over to the fence whenever we were playing in the front yard ... my sister, who was 3 years younger than me, and I named him 'Henry' ... well, one day Henry stopped coming over to the fence, and we learned that Henry had gone off to be butchered (this was when I was about 7 and a little too young to actually be there for that part of the farm life ... ) When the 'henry-steaks' arrived, we were all put off by it, and my sister and I cried and generally ruined it for my parents and other siblings ...

So ... don't name your food ...

[flying Elvis]

Soylet Green is people!!!!

[schmelvin]

I buy all organic produce, but I'm not a greenie weenie or anything.

I have an African Grey parrot, and she insists that I share my fruits and vegies with her. I figure the pesticide levels in standard non-organic produce are safe for me, but I'm not so sure they're as safe for my 15 oz. baby, and I don't want to chance it. (Birds are really sensitive to toxins. Even the fumes released from teflon when cooking using a nonstick skillet, can kill them.)

[Aquinasfan]

One of the great glories of modern life is the enormous elaboration of the division of labor and how the efficiencies gained from that division makes people much wealthier than they could otherwise be.

The whole is greater than its parts? If only the Reason folks could see this as a metaphor for the moral health of society.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...I don't care where my food comes from ---and neither should you...."

The ReasonFoundation.

Man, oh man. Meaning is taking a terrible hit these days.....

[PoorMuttly]

The man eats Velveeta. Musta got a bad mud-turtle back there somewhere.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Oh yes, I wanted to kick the original, and incredibly cretinous, article around a little more too.

Think, all you jolly, food-loving, capitalism-loving gourmands--as you gobble your wonderfully diverse and inexpensive foodstuffs--of all those grim little jihadists toiling away on the farms and in the food processing plants overseas (cheaper food, you know, is the highest human goal).

Hee hee, hee....