Why we call them Freedom-Haters - today's edition

If you ever needed conclusive proof that the kumbaya / fairness-and-clean-water movement was nothing but cover for totalitarianism of the most jackbooted kind, this column provides it.  The authors are, respectively, a food writer, a journalism professor, and a scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.

They propose a "national food policy."  They say that the way individuals freely choose to eat now is wrecking our health and fouling up the air and water.

They envision a policy that would "invest resources to guarantee that":

● All Americans have access to healthful food;

● Farm policies are designed to support our public health and environmental objectives;

● Our food supply is free of toxic bacteria, chemicals and drugs;

● Production and marketing of our food are done transparently;

● The food industry pays a fair wage to those it employs;

● Food marketing sets children up for healthful lives by instilling in them a habit of eating real food;

● Animals are treated with compassion and attention to their well-being;

● The food system’s carbon footprint is reduced, and the amount of carbon sequestered on farmland is increased;

● The food system is sufficiently resilient to withstand the effects of climate change.

They bemoan the fact that current "government policy" is "piecemeal."

Then they get to the crux of what they're after: They want the Most Equal Comrade to announce an "executive order establishing a national policy for food, health and well-being," so as to "make it much more difficult for Congress to pass bills that fly in its face."

Of course, on one level this is silly and worthy of dismissal and derision, particularly since the nation expressed its current leanings last Tuesday, and also in light of the focus being put on the unconstitutionality of most of the Most Equal Comrade's executive orders.

On another level, however, this shows how advanced the rot is, how entrenched in sectors such as education, physical-sciences research, and journalism, this totalitarian impulse is.  That these three authors could have risen in their respective fields to the levels of status they now have demonstrates how great our task is going to be.

I hope this gets the discussion it needs to have.  This is some hard-core stuff.