We Can’t Reform Health Care Without Reforming Food

by Tom Alexander on October 30, 2009 · 0 comments

bobcescaWith all the shrill voices screeching on about death panels, Obamacare, communism and socialism, the real cause of America’s declining health has been lost in the anarchy of the “debate.”
As Bob Cesca in The Huffington Post writes,

If and when health care reform finally passes, we will have successfully ameliorated only half of the crisis. The treatment half. The next step has to be focused upon doing something about the poisoned filth we’ve collectively nicknamed “food.” Without any real changes in how our food is produced, the health care system will continue to bloat and fall apart. Not unlike the insides of an average American body.
Corporate agribusiness has invested nearly $1.2 billion (and growing) on lobbyists — more money than even the defense lobby. Naturally, much of this lobbying has been aimed at deregulating how food is processed and manufactured, as well as how corporate agribusinesses raise and process livestock. It’s an industry that’s entangled in everything from Big Tobacco to human trafficking and illegal immigration.

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