Horton Hears a Who July 14, 2008

I want to share with you a wonderful comment I received from a reader, Craig, when I posted a while back on “Real French Fries” (French fries made with real grass-fed beef tallow).

Few people go back and read the comments — and I don’t blame you — life is busy! But this comment is so eloquent and so inspiring — it deserves to be read.

(Thanks, Craig!)

“I loved the taste of the “old” McDonalds fries, I think that was what they were really famous for. Never liked the vegetable oil substitute.

Sounds like you read the book “Real Food”. You have made correct assumptions about the history of saturated fats vs vegetable oils. Why change the way that people have been eating for thousands of years, to listen to a bunch of lined pockets tell us that our ancestors didn’t have a clue?

I wish there was a way to get the word out to the average joe about CAFOs, grass fed farming, raw products, the truth about organics in this country, saturated fat, processed foods, the true costs this country pays for what is sold as “groceries”, the farm bill and who really benefits (can you say Cargill etc…), the unhealthy information and practices put into place and supported by Congress and the FDA. Every citizen should be outraged at what has been forced onto the American people.

Our politicians fake their sympathy for the cost of health care, “food” and the price of gas, yet over 70% of all the costs of health care are related to industrial food sources, regulations and restrictions have forced local farmers out of business and dried up support for them in favor of industrial agricultural companies (same ones mentioned above, who now have the power and money to lobby for anything that they want), and 50% of the gasoline used in this country is used for fertilizing, growing and transporting industrial food (what’s wrong with locally grown food?). Doesn’t sound like our government has the American people’s interests in mind.

We need to have our voices heard!!!”

Thanks, Craig, for taking the time to post. It’s voices like yours we all need to hear.