Alert! One of our eagle-eyed readers (Lambo) pointed out in the comments that the details of this chart are almost certainly broken, and that the PCRM may not be quite the upstanding source that we might have hoped for. I think the larger point probably still holds, but this graph needs to be taken with more salt than is dietarily good for you. See the comments for more.
We are what we eat, and (all too often) we eat what’s cheap, and what’s cheap is what we subsidize.
Or, turning the thing around…
We subsidize unhealthy, environmentally irresponsible foods, so it’s hardly a surprise that, as a nation, we eat tons of the stuff.
To cleanse your pallet, I’ll leave you with a delicious organic mushroom from River Nene Farms…
