Good Fat

Here a ticked off Karen de Costner goes off on govt interference in food, in particular trans-fat.

So you can blame your “clogged” plumbing, and potentially, an entire generation of health carnage on the fact that the industrial food machine has built an almost insurmountable system of rent-seeking decrees based on politically-motivated junk science that has fully intended to do you harm. I do not subscribe to the the feel-good notion that these actions are the “tyranny of good intentions,” or that the fallout – such as entire generations of health disasters – is somehow an acceptable downside of otherwise useful political actions upstream. This is intentional strategy on the part of the political-industrial machine to string together a system of uninterrupted profitability undergirded by political favors performed by a plethora of crony-corporate megalomaniacs who apply political clout to gain advantage in the marketplace and build their revolving-door resume. The hacks at the top of the crony capitalism org chart transition between the government sector to the pharmaceutical-medical-industrial food sector in an entirely purposeful way.

I was lucky to have a doctor who was a scientist and never bought the false claims Big Ag had to offer.  And it is this kind of independence that leads to opportunity.

Seattle's favorite burger chain, Dick's, was obliged to stop using palm oil in 2008.  So no more GMO Soy/Palm mix for their fries.  "The biggest change since 1954 (when founded.)"

Wait, what?  GMOSoy/Palm mix did not exist in 1954.  What did they use then?  Well, lard or tallow.  Now the very idea makes people wince, which is a triumph of social conditioning since fries cook in beef fat are both tastier and better for you.

Some high end restaurants are doing it, and charging an arm and a leg.  People think they are splurging, or a taking a little walk on the wild side, when in fact they are well within the safety zone.

Obama/Romneycare was designed to fail, so we can get to single payer, which will be yet another disaster for people.  But there is a chance that it fails and we are left with a free market in medicine.  that would be more dynamic than a free market in food, but either one will do.

Deregulate something, and we recover economically.

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