“In (the libertarian) movement, we’re accused a lot of being elitists,” ...But “the real elitists” are the people who say “we need to tell Americans what to eat.” “We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat,” he suggested, bringing up the U.S. Food Pyramid—an advice module that’s fallen far, far on the wrong side of nutritional history. “These elitists thought the country was too stupid to know how to eat, how to feed their kids.” In his view, the elitists are also “the ones who want subsidies in the farm program,” who “run around telling us that backyard chickens are hazardous”, look to “factory farms as the answer”, say you can’t “build a pond on your farm, that’s water hoarding”, think farming is only “for those kind of people,” deny people the ability to operate stills and grow hemp, and zone people out of running businesses from their own homes or land. The elitists are “the Republicans who want to be in bed with Monsanto” and “the Democrats who want to govern every morsel of food we put in our mouths.”
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 21:30:01 +0000
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