Fake Food, Tim Barrus, NYT

Not Another Pain In the Ass Piece On the Environment. But, Yes.

Industrialized food. Industrialized farming. Industrialized fish farming. Industrialized wages. Industrialized health care. Industrialized housing. Industrialized prisons. Industrialized education. Industrialized book markets. Industrialized guns. Industrialized mining. Industrialized logging. Industrialized publishing. Industrialized beer. Industrialized shoes. Industrialized art. Industrialized war. Industrialized politics. If it’s good enough for one person, it’s good enough for 7,577,130,400 people who live on the earth. Industrialized poisons like insecticides for us to feed wild animals. Industrialized wild animals in theme parks. Industrialized theme parks. Industrialized radio active waste. Industrialized comic book entertainment. Industrialized law. Industrialized banking. We are industrialized corporate automatons who embrace capitalism while we throw our chemical garbage into the water, the air, the land, our homes. If it’s not industrial, it has to be iconic. Fish have high levels of PCB that finds its way from the beginning to the end (usually the ocean) of the food chain. We are the Food-Chains’ weakest link. We are the Food-Chains-devils-adovocate. We are the ammonia we dump. We are the Plastic People. We are the people who refuse to believe we are the Plastic People with a problem. We are the loggers. We are the waste. We are the tech wars. We are the garbage pits. We are the overfishing. No more happy articles about food without mentioning how we have brought our planet to its knees.