Read Blue Girl's post.

This is an important topic and it touches on corporate welfare, unneeded subsidies to farmers, the dumbing down of the FDA, short term and long term health risks towards the US, rising food prices around the world, obesity, global warming, the import of adulterated and poorly inspected food from abroad, and free trade.

It would be good to know specifics on what the candidates propose to do to keep downer cows from getting in our food from the US or plastics from getting in our food from China.

Det. Thorn: I know, Sol, you've told me a hundred times before. People were better, the world was better...

Sol: Ah, people were always lousy. But there was a world, once.

Det. Thorn: [chuckles]

Sol: I was there, I can prove it! When I was a kid, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Not this... crap!

Sol: Why, in my day, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Fresh lettuce in the stores.

Det. Thorn: I know, Sol, you told me before.

...

Det. Thorn: It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!

Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the exchange.

Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people!