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Monday, April 22, 2013
New Book Debunks Food Police Agenda and Goals
With the activists looking to whip up a whirlwind against the pleasures and conveniences of modern food, in steps economist and university professor Jayson Lusk with a dollop of common sense. In his book The Food Police, Lusk challenges the mythmaking of Michael Pollan and his so-called food “movement” (that doesn’t win many converts or ballot-box contests, we would add). Whether the foodies and their allies want to make everyone eat
“organic” or “local” foods, to ban or severely restrict the use of
biotechnology in food production, or enact “fat taxes” to make foods
they don’t like cost more, Lusk stands athwart the effort to reduce
choice. Using economic thinking, Lusk debunks claims that the food
elite’s views of health, food fashion, and people’s inability to choose
should be extended by law to everybody. The problem Lusk describes isn’t that some people like to eat organic
food, avoid GMOs, or not drink cola. Instead, the “food movement” wants
to use the law to make people who have different preferences and make different choices follow those same preferences...more
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