People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.
Interpretation
The government has a role in influencing public eating habits for the betterment of society.
Mark Bittman's quote emphasizes the importance of governmental involvement in promoting healthier eating habits among the populace. He argues that food should be a central topic for political candidates, highlighting its relevance to public health and the well-being of communities.
In practice
This quote can be used during a public health campaign to advocate for better nutritional policies.
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.
Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.
I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
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