So I am doing a project on food, specifically the lack of it.

[the_future_modernes]

WARNING: This post is...upsetting. Humanity continues to be...shitty.


So I saw this ad, from the World Food Programme:

UN World Food Programme: We Feed people

And I wondered WTF and who on earth thought corn-soybean mush was a good idea. That shit ain't healthy, not by a long shot!

And then. I saw this.

2010: NEED TO KNOW | The silent epidemic of malnutrition | PBS

I...am incoherent with RAGE. This. is. bullshit. I am sorry but not only can we do SO MUCH BETTER (less fucking wars and weapons. More nutritious freaking FOOD. And don't TELL ME the US spends too much on foreign aid, we spend less than one percent. LESS THAN ONE PERCENT. We can do Less tax cuts for the wealthy, and drop less million dollar bombs AND MAKE THE CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FUCKING TAXES.) Also? Where the fuck are the rest of the world? Europe? The oil-rich states? Canada? What the fuck is this??? And I am not blaming the World Food Programme at all, because they have to take what they get and they are chronically underfunded. But countries of the world? This is NOT OK. NOT. OK. We can do SO MUCH BETTER. WTF is this???


RAGE!!!!!!

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[thejeopardymaze]

I've been half tempted to make a DW community focused on the REAL food politics, but only if someone is willing co-mad and agree on some general principles with me.

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[nagasvoice]

I daresay if you post it at the politics com, people there will probably like what you have to say on the topic.
http://politics.dreamwidth.org/
I don't know if there's a FONSFAQ on nutrition questions, but it sure wouldn't hurt to have one! I ran across a nice word for this nonsense. One of my other friends commented about a bit of really badly done science (ie. not science at all) by calling it "woo." There is an awful lot of woo out there around this whole topic.

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[thejeopardymaze]

I've noticed those who claim to be against woo seem to not care for the science of nutrition either, they just repeat the same drivel without looking at the data. I've seen Gary Taubes's work dismissed by far too many people who have clearly not even bothered to read his work, but are more than happy to misrepresent his thesis. It's a constant regurgitation with no end in site.

And this is part of why I'm sick of the war on obesity, there is no real science being used to curve it, it's about victim blaming pure and simple.

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[the_future_modernes]

I'd love to see your posts on the subject here, because god knows its something that pisses me off too!