Food Hysteria

Food Hysteria is a blog devoted to issues that effect what we eat.  As Americans have become more knowledgeable about the things they put in their mouths the more they have sought to improve the quality of those things.  The growing community of foodies is shocked by the sheer volume of dangerous chemicals and processes that have been plaguing our food for the last 30 or so years.  We are alarmed by the orchestrated ignorance of the masses; several corporations and the federal government have worked in tandem to fleece the consumer.

The name, Food Hysteria, comes from an article by Caitlin Flanagan that oddly criticizes the American public for no longer blindly consuming processed foods.  In her article Cultivating Failure for Atlantic Magazine, Flanagan belittles farm-to-table advocates, particularly Alice Waters.  She also goes on to suggest schools that have a garden for children to tend is somehow doing a disservice to the children, their parents and immigrants everywhere.  Ms. Flanagan's point of view represents the crux of the issue - the government wouldn't allow the sale of food that was harmful to you so shut up and eat it.  The reality is that the government exchanged policing our food for campaign contributions some twenty years ago.

Some foodies obsess over local-sustainable-organic because their belief system compels them to be stewards of the land.  Their value-set is not unlike that of the environmentalist or the animal rights activist.  Other foodies subscribe to it because they want the foods they eat to be of the very best quality imaginable.  They want their food to both taste good and not kill them.  Is that too much to ask?