However, Rush was right in that there is also a war on all citizens - right now it's the food war, where "fresh food wasn't for the likes of us." Oh, please. Cry me a river!
This is in the New York Times, and the date is February 21st. I've been holding onto this. "Before the Food Arrives on Your Plate, So Much Goes on Behind the Scenes." Let me give you the pull-quote from this story that you need. Now, look at me. Here's the pull-quote from this story. "Food is one of the only base human needs where the American government lets the private market dictate its delivery to our communities," but not for long. Now, I added the "but not for long." You know, we have social justice. We have food justice. We already have food insecurity out there. Food insecurity is when people who run out of food stamps get hungry. Who is the authorette? It doesn't matter.
"One of the first things to like about Tracie McMillan, the author of The American Way of Eating, is her forthrightness. She’s a blue-collar girl who grew up eating a lot of Tuna Helper and Ortega Taco Dinners because her mother was gravely ill for a decade, and her father, who sold lawn equipment, had little time to cook. About these box meals, she says, 'I liked them.' Expensive food that took time to prepare 'wasn’t for people like us,' she writes." Now, you see, already, paragraph two, there's discrimination in food. "Expensive food that took time to prepare 'wasn’t for people like us.'" See, the dirty little secret is the food that takes time to prepare is cheaper than all this boxed processed prefab stuff. "Expensive food that took time to prepare 'wasn’t for people like us.'" What, somebody was denying you expensive food that took time to prepare?
She goes on. This is Tracie McMillan again, the author of The American Way of Eating. "'It was for the people my grandmother described, with equal parts envy and derision, as "fancy"; my father’s word was "snob." And I wasn’t about to be like that.' This is a voice the food world needs," says the writer of the story in the New York Times. Folks, I know you're thinking, some of you, "Rush, what?" Every time I find evidence of a massive forthcoming event to take away a little bit of our freedom here and there, under the guise of improving on our health or our safety or our security, I am going to warn you about it because the ultimate endgame is to take away your freedom. And so now we have a book by a woman named Tracie McMillan, The American Way of Eating, which has, according to the New York Times, as its premise that only the "fancy" and the "snobs" get good food.
Average, ordinary Americans, the 99%, are denied expensive food that takes time to prepare. "That food wasn't for people like us," writes Ms. McMillan. "Ms. McMillan, like a lot of us, has grown to take an interest in fresh, well-prepared food." You've seen this interest, I'm sure. Every time you travel, you talk to people. When's the last conversation you had with people about fresh, well-prepared food? I mean it's a common topic at dinner parties, is it not? It's a common, ordinary, everyday discussion item. Well, it's portrayed that way here.
"Ms. McMillan, like a lot of us, has grown to take an interest in fresh, well-prepared food. She’s written for Saveur magazine, a pretty fancy journal, and she knows her way around a kitchen. But her central concern, in her journalism and in this provocative book, is food and class. She stares at America’s bounty, noting that so few seem able to share in it fully, and she asks: 'What would it take for us all to eat well?'" And I take you back to the pull-quote: "Food is one of the only base human needs where the American government lets the private market dictate its delivery to our communities."
So capitalism and the private sector are discriminating against the average, ordinary American by not delivering him quality food. The junk food is going to the poor and the miserable, and the fancy and the snobs are getting the good stuff, and that's because the government is not regulating the delivery. Now, you put this together with Moochelle (My Belle) Obama what she's trying to do. You put this together with a story we had out of North Carolina with a federal food agent telling a four-year-old that what was in her boxed lunch from home didn't meet standards. What's the message there? "Your mommy doesn't really know what's best for you. We here at the school do."
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