Dietary Guidelines for Americans Promote Industrial Meat, Ignore Chemical and Drug Exposure, Sideline Fiber, and Break from Agricultural and Ecological Reality
thank you Elizabeth, this is extremely well written, informative and clear. Surely more than sufficient to get the conversation going in Washington especially with the Kennedy crowd. The one crucial area I would add is that of the need for affordable land access and land reform so that organic and regenerative agriculture can thrive. This can be promoted via tax reform that removes taxes on farm labor, buildings and other infrastructure and shifts the tax base on to land values only. Large industrial agriculture operations pay more under such a system. I have written about 10 key positive points of this tax shift in a paper I presented to the Agriculture Committee of the Pennsylvania State government a few years ago. The article is in my book The Earth Belongs to Everyone, I gave a copy to Dennis once so you hopefully can find it on a shelf somewhere in your house. Otherwise for the pdf go here: https://theiu.org/books/ Call me for further discussion at 717-357-7617.
What your mother did to resolve her food issues, and what Dennis, and what many others have done are solid examples of how to resolve these and many other issues through the wise use of power - their power working with others.
Without explicit intentions guiding policy the policies are wide open for the usual few (actually very few) to abuse power to make policy for their benefit. Those using the good spirit of the intentions make wonderful policy.
Good luck! Good people for many, many years have been addressing this issue, hoping to influence the public to demand changes to our food supply based on real evidence of the kind you mention. But when it comes to policy discussions in Congress I have never heard meaningful talk about correcting our “mistakes” or adopting the practices of other nations which have healthful diets and sound agricultural policies. We have lots of talk of various “diets” but no one talks about how food is grown or animals are treated in the halls of Congress because Big Ag, like Big Tech and Big Pharma, control what passes for legislation. Our outsize hubris presents us as ‘know it alls’ who have nothing to learn from others. And our education, which in the old days included nutrition, cooking classes, etc. is now awol on our health, both physical and mental. This is part of a huge problem: our governing institutions. Not enough of us are aware of the “Big Picture.” Good luck.
Elizabeth Kucinich delivers an indisputable stream of logic that people everywhere need to understand. Dietary Guidelines reflect corporate objectives rather than scientific health advice. The result bursts forth from the stupendous growth in diseases, from cancer to cardio conditions. The people of our tiny planet need to know how to feed themselves without resorting to the dietary practices of carnivores. After all is said and done, humans are fundamentally frugivores, defined biologically by our digestive system and dentition. Elizabeth Kucinich's message deserves to be heard and acted upon by people and governments everywhere, as well as the captains of our food industries.
Brilliant and timely as usual, Ms. Kucinich. Thank you.
You are very diplomatic in your use of language. I am not. I have to say that while Trump poisons the American mind with his bigotry and hate, RFK Jr. and his crowd at the USDA, the EPA, poison our bodies. For a quick buck, never mind the true cost.
Dennis was my favorite congressman & I still absorb what he writes. And I think Elizabeth's understanding of the world aligns almost 100% with mine. The one small difference comes from my experience of being practically vegetarian, and then having my blood sugar problem solved by increasing my animal protein according to the Zone diet. Since then, we have raised organic, grass fed cattle and pastured chickens on our farm here for many years. All you say about industrialized farming is true. But I don't think RFK, Jr. is to blame. He has introduced the first crack in the wall of food produced for profit, not for health. Recommending avoidance of highly processed food may be only a baby step, but it is in the right direction. I don't think you can expect him to correct decades of entrenched political and media control of our appetites in one fell swoop. It's going to be a process. Kennedy should not be the target.
thank you Elizabeth, this is extremely well written, informative and clear. Surely more than sufficient to get the conversation going in Washington especially with the Kennedy crowd. The one crucial area I would add is that of the need for affordable land access and land reform so that organic and regenerative agriculture can thrive. This can be promoted via tax reform that removes taxes on farm labor, buildings and other infrastructure and shifts the tax base on to land values only. Large industrial agriculture operations pay more under such a system. I have written about 10 key positive points of this tax shift in a paper I presented to the Agriculture Committee of the Pennsylvania State government a few years ago. The article is in my book The Earth Belongs to Everyone, I gave a copy to Dennis once so you hopefully can find it on a shelf somewhere in your house. Otherwise for the pdf go here: https://theiu.org/books/ Call me for further discussion at 717-357-7617.
What your mother did to resolve her food issues, and what Dennis, and what many others have done are solid examples of how to resolve these and many other issues through the wise use of power - their power working with others.
Without explicit intentions guiding policy the policies are wide open for the usual few (actually very few) to abuse power to make policy for their benefit. Those using the good spirit of the intentions make wonderful policy.
Good luck! Good people for many, many years have been addressing this issue, hoping to influence the public to demand changes to our food supply based on real evidence of the kind you mention. But when it comes to policy discussions in Congress I have never heard meaningful talk about correcting our “mistakes” or adopting the practices of other nations which have healthful diets and sound agricultural policies. We have lots of talk of various “diets” but no one talks about how food is grown or animals are treated in the halls of Congress because Big Ag, like Big Tech and Big Pharma, control what passes for legislation. Our outsize hubris presents us as ‘know it alls’ who have nothing to learn from others. And our education, which in the old days included nutrition, cooking classes, etc. is now awol on our health, both physical and mental. This is part of a huge problem: our governing institutions. Not enough of us are aware of the “Big Picture.” Good luck.
Elizabeth Kucinich delivers an indisputable stream of logic that people everywhere need to understand. Dietary Guidelines reflect corporate objectives rather than scientific health advice. The result bursts forth from the stupendous growth in diseases, from cancer to cardio conditions. The people of our tiny planet need to know how to feed themselves without resorting to the dietary practices of carnivores. After all is said and done, humans are fundamentally frugivores, defined biologically by our digestive system and dentition. Elizabeth Kucinich's message deserves to be heard and acted upon by people and governments everywhere, as well as the captains of our food industries.
Brilliant and timely as usual, Ms. Kucinich. Thank you.
You are very diplomatic in your use of language. I am not. I have to say that while Trump poisons the American mind with his bigotry and hate, RFK Jr. and his crowd at the USDA, the EPA, poison our bodies. For a quick buck, never mind the true cost.
Dennis was my favorite congressman & I still absorb what he writes. And I think Elizabeth's understanding of the world aligns almost 100% with mine. The one small difference comes from my experience of being practically vegetarian, and then having my blood sugar problem solved by increasing my animal protein according to the Zone diet. Since then, we have raised organic, grass fed cattle and pastured chickens on our farm here for many years. All you say about industrialized farming is true. But I don't think RFK, Jr. is to blame. He has introduced the first crack in the wall of food produced for profit, not for health. Recommending avoidance of highly processed food may be only a baby step, but it is in the right direction. I don't think you can expect him to correct decades of entrenched political and media control of our appetites in one fell swoop. It's going to be a process. Kennedy should not be the target.
Thanks for posting this!