After watching Dr. Oz on Oprah toaday, the answer to the HCR

[peggygirl]

is that the government should stop subsidizing corporate farmers and subsidize organic farmers who grow graines and leafy's instead. Maybe food stamps should be designated for organic, wholesome foods?

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. If they designated food stamps for only organic wholesome foods

they would have to double the monthly amount. I doubt most people on food stamps eat crappy processed "food" because they want to. They eat it because it's all they can afford.

We should definitely stop subsidizing corporate farms though. MonSatan needs to be eliminated entirely before they kill us all. And no, I'm not exaggerating.

[HillbillyBob]

5. Yea the giant corpse that brought us

PCBs and Agent Orange...Should be broken.
I have been lookin at them with a jaundiced view since 2 uncles and some cosins have been sick since Viet Nam, strange cancers, mental health issues, whether from exposure to the agent or the violence of war I think its a combination. One had some kind of cancer in his muscles,which I had never heard of before, he suicided in 79 because he could not get any help from VA as did a couple of friends.

We bought a place cheap and abandoned so we could afford to live in a house and grow some food, we collect heirloom varieties of seeds to grow. I am a long term AIDs survivor with a market list of health issues and allergies which are better with eating real food and no chemicals added.

[Maru Kitteh]

2. what about an Alaskan family that has only one store in 400 miles to shop at?

Or a family in eastern Colorado with no car and the next nearest shop is 38 miles away and doesn't have organic food either?

[cutlassmama]

3. They give vouchers to the farmer's market here ($50.00 worth) for ppl on FS

[ChicagoSuz219]

4. I think the answer to HCR (Dr. Oz-style)...

...is a GIANT strawberry enema for all Republicans.

[eridani]

6. This is an excellent idea, but you are delusional if you think this will affect health care costs

5% of the population accounts for 50% of all health care costs.
15% of the population accounts for 85% of all health care costs.

Therefore it is utterly meaningless how much clean living the 85% majority responsible for only 15% of costs does. That is, meaningless with respect to HCR--it is very meaningful in terms of improvements in everyone's quality of life, not to mention carbon footprints and such.