Yes, we are just passed Yom Kippur, but with the fast still fresh in our minds and with the gates not yet fully closed, I think Rabbi Dov Gartenberg's (of Temple Beth Shalom in CA) sermon has some terrific lessons for us. Specifically I would like to highlight one issue which is close to my heart and which continues to bring my blood to a boil...
"No one is talking about how our government subsidizes terrible food choices. No one challenges a system that spends billions of marketing dollars seducing us to eat food products that undermine our environment, waste huge amounts of fossil fuels and most of all jeopardize our personal health... The government is putting itself in the uncomfortable position of subsidizing both the costs of treating Type 2 diabetes and the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup, one of the main contributing factors to that disease. Our health crisis in America is driven not only by a broken health care system, but even more so by the American way of eating and producing food. This food system compromises our health which requires massive amounts of expensive medical intervention to keep us functioning and alive." Click here for the sermon in its entirety.
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