While eating breakfast at Brownies Café, I read the diet detective, Charles Stuart Platkin’s “Movies that educate you about the foods you eat.” (Yuma Sun, April 20, 2011). It is, of course, important that we be better informed about the foods we eat, but I must take issue with a couple of points. He lauds “Supersize Me” as a film that shows us how dangerous fast food can be. The film especially indicts McDonalds, but I think we all know that supersizing anywhere “can make you very sick,” even at Brownies voted “The Best of Yuma” many years in a row. It’s not so much where we eat, but what we eat.
I was also amused, no, a bit put off, by his comment about the movie “Food, Inc.” which exposes “the highly mechanized underbelly” of our nation’s food industry and indicts it for “putting profit before public health.” People who have never run a business seem to not understand that the aim of business is to make a profit, and that a free enterprise system relies on supply and demand, and then we demonize corporations for giving us what we demand. A viable democracy depends on an informed public. I think we all know what foods are not good for us. Perhaps someday I will really learn it, but in the meantime, I will take full responsibility for my personal failings.
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