Mark Bittman
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How do you prioritize food?
And so the first argument is why would you prioritize food?
And you'd prioritize food if you want healthy environment and a healthy body and sort of public health and longevity and all these other things.
So if you agree, well, food is important, then how's the investment?
What's the investment in food look like?
And my argument, and this is, you mentioned Community Kitchen, not by name, but
Our nonprofit, Community Kitchen, but many people's argument is we have a Department of Education.
No one asks it to make money.
We have a Department of Transportation.
No one asks it.
The military, da-da-da-da-da.
There's all this stuff that we invest in for our common good, and we don't invest in food for our common good.
And once we do that, we can start to, quote-unquote, fix things.
We own the seeds.
We own the manufacture.
We own the land.
I mean, it's...
There is, but it's almost the same as everything else.
I don't know how political you want to get, but...