Is a society full of fatty-sugary-salty-food-eating globular pod-people so wrong?
Well, yes, the United States is the third most obese country in the world, with 67 percent of all adult Americans being overweight. Sadly, in child obesity, we are already number one. And beyond the U.S., the problems of an industrialized food system are not much different: About 800 million people on this planet live in hunger, and 1.6 billion people are overweight, which means that twice as many people deal with the consequences of too much food–and the wrong kind–than people with not enough food. Yet there was a time during the 20th century when an agricultural system of low-cost, high-volume food would be the answer to so many of the world’s problems. Now it seems that cheap food is not only making us fat and sick but either extremely skeptical or completely oblivious. How is it that pink, puffy food items can be labeled natural? I think it is fair to say that our current food system, as abundant and cheap as it may appear, is not working. While people have the right to have any
