Those two Iran posts from this morning took a lot more time than I expected. Hello easy content:

Until recently, whenever we went to the farmers' market, we would lug home $50 pork roasts and $14 gallons of milk. We would spend over $100 on food that might not last more than three days.... I shrugged this off as one of those oddities of New York life, like getting a ticket because your neighbor put out his trash on the wrong day. But... buying sustainably raised beef and sustainably squeezed milk and sustainably hatched poultry is a way of life that, these days, I just can't sustain... There were reasons I fell into the habit of spending more money in one morning at the farmers' market than some people spend on an engagement ring. These farmers... were doing good work. They stayed away from pharmaceuticals, so we didn't have to worry that we were feeding Dexter and his baby brother, Elliot, stray hormones or antibiotics.

Low yield organic farming: because why should poor people be able to afford food? This is almost as obnoxious as the time that San Francisco yuppies had to give up on pretentious Chilean wines because they were called "Palin Syrahs."

Unanswered: how this particular idiocy interacts with the left's new discovery that fatties are causing global warming. The "voluntarily obese" will become a particularly acute controversy once national health insurance gets going, setting in motion an endless cycle of scapegoating to distract the public from the program's financial unsustainability. So we might as well start talking about it now.

References:
* The New Chicken Economy [NYT]
* Los Angeles Liberals Expanding Campaign To Make It Harder For Poor People To Get Money And Food (Plus: NYC Jewish Hipsters Expanding Campaign To Be Insufferable)
* Newest cause of global warming: Fatties [Hot Air]
* Shh... Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster

Previously:
* Charming GOTV Videos: Commercial Icon Repeatedly Slams Palin Into The Ground (Plus: Severe PDS In San Fran Preventing Yuppies From Indulging In Effete Wine)
* Aww... Liberals Rediscovering Their Patriotism
* Liberal New York Jews and the Liberal New York Jews Who Can't Stand Them