The Brain Washing of America: Food- We Are Asleep (In Response to a Recent NY Daily News Article)

This morning my husband sent me a link to this article over at The Daily News: Park Slope Food Coop And The Holy Kale  and it really annoyed me. Not only is the article poorly sourced, and clearly one-sided in its opinion, but in reading the comments, I find it amazing that people have such a need to attack those who choose healthy over unhealthy.

In the article, as evidence of the co-ops 'elitist' clientele (read: eating healthy means your an elitist and I'll get to this in a minute) the writer cites a 4 year old having a melt down because his parents won't buy him papaya spears. Here's the thing: go into any grocery store and you'll find at least one 4 year old having a melt down because his or her parent won't get them something but usually it's Oreos, a candy bar or a bag of chips. How wonderful that these parents have made papaya spears more attractive and that dried papaya is the object of the child's desire rather than something with empty calories.