What’s wrong with what we eat
“What’s wrong with what we eat” is a 20 minute TED lecture by a man who has been writing about food for the last 30 years. I think he gives a good description of how our current food consumption harms not only our own health, but also the environment.
Worth a look.
Tags: Environment, food
May 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am
This is another evidence of the failure of the current economic system, which repeatedly fails to deal with the effects of public goods. The whole pricing mechanism is out of date. All those who raise cattle need to pay for the pollution they cause; instead, they are being subsidized by the government. Fast food chains need to pay for the damage they cause to the public health. The health care system should be funded by those who consume junk food, cigarettes, alcohol, etc., and not by the responsible people who avoid harmful substances all their life.