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Originally Posted by justingoodman@live.com
i would rather just walk to the garden and pick it fresh than go to the store
and if you really cared that much about it you would to instead of lazily letting a government entity tell you what to eat,
maybe its just me
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The problem with that is that not everybody has the money, the space or the time to grow their own food. Not to mention that some people are bad at growing things.
Even if there is a perfect storm wherein a regular person or family is able to supply the kind of work it takes to maintain a self-sustaining garden, no single group can possibly supply all of their own needs. They're going to have to buy some things at the market. And even if they go to a farmers market, which is probably the next best thing to growing your own, those are damn expensive and sometimes very far away.
At first I was totally for SF taking the toys out of the happy meals, but after some thought, I'm against it. That's too much government interference. they should take the money they're using to be everyone's nanny and work on keeping the food safe for consumption in the short run, rather than the long run.