I saw an interesting PBS, Nova I believe, on food manufacturing and marketing in America. One of the factoids that stuck in my head, was that if all us Americans started eating the recommended 5-6 servings of fruit and vegetables a day, then 300-500% of the current acreage devoted to these items would be needed.
Another was the food pyramid redrawn based on percentages of acreage devoted to producing the food. Grains dominated (corn used to manufacture just about everything) by far, followed closely by meat and sugar (especially corn syrup). -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning ....-----Original Message----- ....From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ....Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 12:55 PM ....To: CF-Community ....Subject: Re: Cruel Economics (Was: Million $ Baby?) .... ....> Cameron wrote: ....> Now *there's* an opportunity for additional tax revenue that's ....> directly proportional to how it's spent. A $20 per pack of cigs tax! ....> And $20 per twinkie! And $20 per crack rock... oh... wait... ....> .... ....Ha! That's an idea ... .... ....But also the crazy thing. If you want to buys cheetos and twinkies ....from Walmart you can live on $50 of food a month. If you want to buy ....fresh fruits and vegetables you have to get a second mortgage. .... ....Then on the back end we pay for the cheap-but-will-kill-you food via ....health care. .... .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Flash MX Pro from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=57 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:152740 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
