This rant sprouts from the documentary film "Supermarket Secrets", a strong piece of investigative journalism concerning the UK food retail industry that came out a few years ago. I watched it with disbelief and tears in my eyes, disgust, then anger. This poor little apple that is not perfectly symmetrical like the snobby faces of its sick consumers and the supermarketeers who rationalize their system by pointing at the "demand" of these consumers. This one misshapen apple, thrown to the pigs or left to rot while a billion people are starving, should enrage billions. And once they are enraged they might start to see that it is not only this apple. It's everything. The entire food production and the entire non-food production. Wasteful, environmentally disastrous, unsustainable, disgustingly "efficient". The whole system should be taken down. Not "dismantled" but blown up, carpet bombed, nuked into oblivion.
