Home Forums FineTunedMac Community Lounge Oink Oink, You Banks, Oink Oink

Unfortunately, the people don't have a Constitutionally mandated obligation to understand.

Those folks who think it's important to understand all about what's going down can, with only a modicum of effort, avail themselves of any number of helpful sources of information. Sites such as Mother Jones (btw, they also publish a magazine with a circulation of about 200,000—compare to Newsweek at 1.5 million and falling) are hardly "underground."

I mean, you could argue that big box supermarkets, receiving as they do the blessing of the FDA and other regulatory agencies for the products they sell, have an obligation not to poison the American consumerate, but so what? We all know whose bread is buttered on what side, and those who care about the nutritional value of the food they consume frequent a myriad of other food sources: Whole Foods, farmers markets, CSAs, food co-ops, their own back yards—all of which are, while small compared to Archer Daniels Midland and its ilk, growing in popularity.

Complaining about the feedlot beef at the heart of the American diet, or the HFCS agricultural economy, might be justified, but if changes happen there, it'll be because those who care are taking there business elsewhere, one person at a time.

Don't like what's on TV? Turn it off.