Mayor of New York City

Needs an article written about his snacking habits? You can be an advocate for good food & still have a pretzel from a sidewalk cart every once in while.
So silly how the focus is away from the messed up wreck of our food system and on the choices of a really wealthy and powerful person (who can afford to eat whatever he wants & pay for the best health care there is). What about all the people who don't have food choices and can only afford the cheapest, and worst, meals? And the cost to their health?

2 comments:

Steve Thorngate said...

Well said.

Also: Can I be an advocate for good food (at a smaller scale, of course) and still have a taqueria lunch ~10 times a week? Just wondering.

Kate said...

this is interesting ~ i have this great class right now on neoliberalism, and we've been talking about how one of neoliberalism's greatest strengths is the way it puts all responsibility (for justice, health, money) on the individual. so it's funny that when society is concerned about social responsibility or food justice, the media responds with stories about how famous individuals are not living up to it. because the responsibility is all on bloomberg, you know, not mcdonald's or cargill.