Farmer in Chief

I thought this article was very insightfull and really took a good look at the base of many of the problems in not only the United States but the world. It seems a lot of current issues have to do with the food crisis we are in. I don't think there is any easy or quick solution, but some of the solutions that the author talked about seemed like a start.

I thought some were a little over the top and would be very hard to get people to go along with, but they all addressed part of the problem. I thought the idea about giving one more dollar a day to each child in a school seemed reasonable, but then the author went on saying that each school should have its own garden and that there should be way more food education. That may not be in every childs or even parents interest.

A metaphor that he used that really struck me was "when we eat food from the industrialized food business we are eating oil and spewing out green house gases." This really grabbed my attention, but curious enough it made me think about organic foods. If for some of the reasons the industrial food business is causing all these things wouldn't it make sence to say eating some organic foods is doing the same? There seems to be no way to not contribute to the food crisis, oil prices and global warming.

All in all this article has left me wondering how the world is going to approach these matters and even if these problems will affect me in my lifetime. I hope you, John!, will be able to shed some light on us and take us more in depth on the subject.