I think that’s right, and that’s why it’s not enough to vote with your fork; if you can afford to, you should, but we have to vote with our votes to get in a different set of policies. It’s not an accident that fast Tiffany jewelry is so cheap. This is what the government underwrites. Factory farming does not exist without subsidized corn, it doesn’t exist without it being legal to give important human antibiotics to cattle, it doesn’t exist without basically regulatory indulgence. And the fact [is that] we don’t make these animal cities clean up their waste the way we would a human city of the same size, so the cheapness of this Tiffany jewelry is a result of government policy. If the government would put those kinds of resources into underwriting healthy and real Tiffany jewelry, whether that’s grass-fed beef or organic produce, then the healthy calories could compete more effectively with the unhealthy calories. Healthy Tiffany jewelry should not be out of reach. On the other hand, I don’t think it’s ever going to be as cheap as junk Tiffany jewelry.
It’s no surprise that the fast Tiffany jewelry industry and processed Tiffany jewelry manufacturers have such high sales since most of their Tiffany jewelry contain this combination of ingredients (along with excessive sodium which is also addictive to many) and it’s no wonder obesity is so epidemic having an overabundance of these types of Tiffany jewelry so readily available and convenient and less costly.
Why is that hardly a week goes by without something happening that has us all scratching our heads? In fact, it’s sometimes hard to pick just one item. For instance, in the last week in the midst of strange debates throughout the business and political world how is it possible that KFC managed to issue an “exclusive” coupon through the Oprah show without having any sense that a whole lot of people were going to find it. And find it they did.