{"id":739,"date":"2007-12-03T22:58:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T22:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/03\/a-serious-case-of-misplaced-priorities\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T06:56:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T06:56:07","slug":"a-serious-case-of-misplaced-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/03\/a-serious-case-of-misplaced-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"A serious case of misplaced priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alert!<\/strong>  <em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcrm.org.nyud.net:8080\/magazine\/gm07autumn\/health_pork.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pcrm.org.nyud.net\/magazine\/gm07autumn\/images\/pyramid.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Chart showing how messed up our food subsidies are\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are what we eat, and (all too often) we eat what&#8217;s cheap, and what&#8217;s cheap is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcrm.org.nyud.net:8080\/magazine\/gm07autumn\/health_pork.html\">what we subsidize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or, turning the thing around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We subsidize unhealthy, environmentally irresponsible foods, so it&#8217;s hardly a surprise that, as a nation, we eat tons of the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>To cleanse your pallet, I&#8217;ll leave you with a delicious organic mushroom from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivernene.co.uk\/\">River Nene Farms<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/2084219579\/\" title=\"To become a gorgeous soup by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2404\/2084219579_db658a42fd.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"To become a gorgeous soup\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/food\/\" title=\"food\">food<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/politics\/\" title=\"Politics\">Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/public-health\/\" title=\"public health\">public health<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/subsidies\/\" title=\"subsidies\">subsidies<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/16\/the-power-of-good-visualization\/\" title=\"The power of good visualization (16 Nov 07)\">The power of good visualization<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/09\/11\/you-have-to-either-laugh-or-cry-and-ill-help-you-do-both\/\" title=\"You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both) (11 Sep 08)\">You have to either laugh or cry (and I&#8217;ll help you do both)<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/12\/03\/a-serious-case-of-misplaced-priorities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A serious case of misplaced priorities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[150,865,53,151],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-bV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":646,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/09\/11\/think-of-how-many-calories-we-must-be-throwing-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":739,"position":0},"title":"Think of how many calories we must be throwing away","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"11 Sep 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Walking home from the office today, I was listening to a Scientific American podcast Putting Food On The Table: What To Eat (go to sciam.com\/podcast\/ for their full set of podcasts), featuring an interview with the appropriately (or ironically - is irony dead?) 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