Comments on: Uncertain future has farmers feeling gloomy http://www.urbancowboy.ca/2010/02/22/uncertain-future-has-farmers-feeling-gloomy/ a city view on agri-food Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ktron http://www.urbancowboy.ca/2010/02/22/uncertain-future-has-farmers-feeling-gloomy/comment-page-1/#comment-2191 ktron Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:14:24 +0000 http://www.urbancowboy.ca/?p=1080#comment-2191 "It is no coincidence that in the years national spending on health care went from 5 percent to 16 percent of national income, spending on food has fallen by a comparable amount -- from 18 percent of household income to less than 10 percent. While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health." Michael Pollan, The New York Times. October 14, 2008 "Dear Mr. Next President -- Food, Food, Food" Though these are American, the Candian statistics are probably quite similar. “It is no coincidence that in the years national spending on health care went from 5 percent to 16 percent of national income, spending on food has fallen by a comparable amount — from 18 percent of household income to less than 10 percent. While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.”

Michael Pollan, The New York Times. October 14, 2008 “Dear Mr. Next President — Food, Food, Food”

Though these are American, the Candian statistics are probably quite similar.

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