Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

[Guest guest]

Horror stories about the food industry have long been with us — ever

since 1906, when Upton Sinclair's landmark novel The Jungle told some

ugly truths about how America produces its meat. In the century that

followed, things got much better, and in some ways much worse. The

U.S. agricultural industry can now produce unlimited quantities of

meat and grains at remarkably cheap prices. But it does so at a high

cost to the environment, animals and humans...

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1917458,00.html

Carolyn

Madison, WI