Amazing op-ed piece by Mark Bittman in today's NY TImes. Read on!
In Brief:
- End subsidies to processed food
- Begin subsidies for small farmers who sell actual food for direct consumption
- Break up the bureaucracies at the USDA and the FDA
- Ban factory-farm style animal feeding
- Encourage and subsidize home cooking
- Institute a junk food sales and marketing tax
- Encourage recycling while reducing waste
- Require truth in labeling
- Invest in sustainable agriculture research
