The Big Guys and the Little Guys

In my last post you saw the trailer for "Food Inc."  For those of you who haven't seen it, the film makes the connection between the food on our plate and where it comes from - and most of it comes from corporate food producers.  This relatively small number of companies still have more influence than all the little guys put together.  Little meaning local like Codman Farms in Lincoln Mass. and  Stonewall Farm in Keene, NH, which obviously don't stand a chance versus the enormous machine of Monsanto and others.

So what would break the corporate food producer hold on the industry and allow smaller food producers to operate on a more even footing with the corporations?  Fundamental changes to the current food system. 

Easier said than done but any way that nutritional and/or organic foods would be made more available to more people would be a step in the right direction.  The theory is that once people have the more healthful option, present efforts towards education in nutritional eating and cooking such as Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures would be that much more effective.

All it needs is a multi-level approach to bring in food producers of all kinds, distributors, retailers and consumers in a concentrated effort.  Simple.  

So how does this trickle down to what this blog's actually about? 

Encouraging and enabling a nutritional diet along with low cost healthy food available, will go a long way towards combating obesity, especially in the populations hit hardest by the epidemic.  This gradually affects a positive change within the collective diet and with it, a contributing factor to obesity.  

You are what you eat, right?