tag:www.vegetarian.org.nz,2005:Typo Typo 2008-11-02T07:33:50Z nzvs urn:uuid:cb554318-b056-4ce2-857a-9356997192dc 2008-07-03T05:38:00Z 2008-11-02T07:33:50Z <p><font size="3" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yes says Raj Patel: growing food for animals is a waste of resources <br /> </font></p> <p><font size="3" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">in an overcrowded world.</font></p> <font size="2" face="Geneva,Arial,sans-serif"><strong>Sunday June 22, 2008<br /> Observer Food Monthly</strong> <br /> <br /> </font>America is the most overweight country on earth. Only three out of 10 Americans <br /> have a normal body weight. I should have guessed that one of the side effects of <br /> moving to the US would be bloating. <p>Since leaving London for America a decade ago, I've put on a couple of stone. It's <br /> easy enough to blame the food environment here. This is, after all, the land where <br /> Reagan pronounced tomato ketchup a fruit and, more recently, where French fries<br /> and chocolate-covered cherries were legally dubbed 'fresh produce' under a US<br /> Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulation known as the batter-coating rule.</p> <p><a href="http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,2286172,00.html" target="_blank">Read the full article here</a><br /> </p> <br /> <br /> <font size="3" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br /> </font><table width="640" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> <td valign="top" height="1" colspan="3">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>