#OccupyBigEd
When Republican Congressmen vote against higher nutrition standards for children’s school lunches, carrying out the wishes of “Big Ag” by making the tomato sauce on school lunch pizza the equivalent of a vegetable, we instantly know what that means. Public interests have been sold out again, and we the public have to rally our forces again to prevail.
“Big Ag” is shorthand for what decades of educating the nation’s eaters now understand: billion dollar agricultural interests farm food on a vast scale and deliver it to other multinational corporations that prepare and manufacture raw ingredients into processed food, with the accompanying lobbyists, think tanks, and advertisers to promote Big Ag’s interests to Congress and the