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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do have personal choices.  Have ya'll ever looked at the shopping carts in the grocery section of Walmart.  [b]There are not a lot of shoppers selecting apples from the apple bin of the produce department. [/b]Most shoppers are loading their carts with 2 liter sodas, chips, and processed foods.  As a shopper you have to walk through the produce section with your cart to check out.[/quote]
Ahh but you’ve unwittingly pointed out how the American food system is broken!

Let’s talk apples, since you brought them up. It seems, from my brief European experiences and reading (I lack personal experience elsewhere in the world), that European food systems still [i]tend[/i] toward seasonal eating as well as local eating. Apples, as summer to fall (and into winter depending on the storability of various varieties) should just now be starting to come back into the stores. But they’re not, they’ve been there all year. From Chile. From elsewhere overseas.

And is there a lot of nutrition in those traveled and stored apples? Not so much. Is there a lot of flavor? Is there a lot of choice? Depending on what store you go to. But why has America lost most of its local producers of apples with the varieties that we used to grow? It’s corporate food choices made with corporate needs in mind. You won’t find a lot of Esopus Spitzenbergs or Limbertwigs or Pearmains.

Our food is corporate. The flavors are banal and one dimensional and quite frankly, even our fruits and vegetables are no longer as healthy as they were even a few years ago and are far less nutritious than they were a hundred years ago. You were trying to take a swipe at those fatties making poor choices but you instead managed to point out one of the major failings of our food system. [/quote]

Remember when tomatoes were amazing? How fresh tomato with a little bit of seasoning tasted flavorful and fulfilling? Those were the days.[/quote]

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