Sunday 30 November 2008
Cheap food is actually incredibly expensive. If you look at the all the costs, you are talking about the farm subsidies. That’s $25 billion a year to make that food cheap. You look at the pollution effects. The quality of the water all through the farm belt, nitrates in the water, moms who can’t use tap water because it, you know, blue baby syndrome from nitrogen in the water. You look at the public health costs. You look at the cost to the atmosphere. Agriculture is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases. Michael Pollan ☀
