The politically-correct food faddists are taking some heavy hits in the last few days.
Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail took a swing at the 100-mile diet and organic farming.
Then Maclean's magazine ran a four-page feature slamming the 100-mile diet and trumpeting the new book, Locavore's Dilemma, by Pierre Desroches of the University of Toronto and his wife, Hiroko Shimizu.
You know that a fad is on its last legs when both the Globe and Mail and Maclean's expose the movement's fraudulent claims in the same week.
What particularly irks me is that some of my property taxes go to pay the salary and expenses of Region of Waterloo employees who campaign in favour of the 100-mile diet, organic agriculture and urban farming. What a waste of money!
Meanwhile the Region's roads are breaking up, sewers and water mains are leaking, services in general are in decline, salaries and benefits continue to take a larger and larger percentage of budgets and taxes keep rising faster than inflation.
I'd appreciate some good, old-fashioned nose-to-the-grindstone politics instead of politically-correct nonsense.
