Thursday July 5

It isn't often that a commentary piece on MarketWatch reflects a lot of my thinking on any issue. I look it over to see what the economic pundits are saying and how out of touch many are with the life I live. This one, however, is an exception.

Another illustration of why our industrial food manufacturing system is not working. Or I should say it isn't a working for those who get sick from it. Because the profits are out of this world and it is making a few people wealthy while employing a lot more and only a few people get sick and/or die from its products most of us are fine with it.

We didn't celebrate the 4th. We stayed home, did our normal things, ate a normal meal, etc. This post has a good distillation of our attitude: why celebrate independence from a geographically distant monarchy only to wind up chained to a socially/fiscally/philosophically distant oligarchy.