The fact sheet brought up some really staggering and fascinating statistics, but again, did not cite its definition of a "food desert." I wish they would have described this a bit more, rather than simply citing how many people live in food deserts. Like that article we read a few weeks ago stated, it's hard to tell whether people genuinely don't have access to healthy food, or if they simply are not choosing it.
The U.S. loses 330 farms a week... that's unbelieveable, and unacceptable. Think about the jobs that go along with those farms. It's so difficult to think about reversing this trend, though. How do we make these giant, powerful industrials farms shrink again to give the small farms room to survive?
This fact sheet scratches the surface of the manure issue in this country, which I have heard quite a bit about recently. Not only are we paying copious amounts of money to manage it, we really are not managing it well at all - pig waste still poisons rivers and water supplies, causing all sorts of environmental and water processing issues, which is quite scary.
I've heard Eric Schlosser speak before, and he was awesome. I'd like to watch Food, Inc. at some point this week and maybe comment on that again - it's in the list of Mind the Gap's recommendations for further reading/watching.
Sydney
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