The Sickness in Our Food Supply [Michael Pollan]

Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Meat is too cheap for our own good. It's not just built on suffering but an immense carbon footprint.

>...These innovations have made meat, which for most of human history has been a luxury, a cheap commodity available to just about all Americans; we now eat, on average, more than nine ounces of meat per person per day, many of us at every meal.

Corn and soybean subsidies are killing America. Why is this extra thumb on the scale allowed in a Capitalist society?

I’d rather have traditional industrial food production with some modifications to improve animal welfare, sanitation, etc...but not for my own sake - it’s for the middle class and poor. Many Americans cannot afford to pay for the inevitably costlier output of decentralized food production. HNers often pay a 2-5x premium for organic local produce at Whole Foods. Great, but let’s not forget that we’re in a minority.