By Hans Vogel
The beginning of springtime is a good moment to start a vegetable garden. As we all know, vegetables are a source of vitamins, nutrients and in order to maintain good health, we should all eat several ounces each day. Yet vegetables are not cheap, especially now that the Second Great Depression is upon us. During the past decades, US consumers have not exactly been blessed with a variegated choice of quality vegetables. In the US, vegetables look great, but have no taste at all, being the fruit of decades of genetical manipulation and mass production on plantations worked by Mexican and Caribbean illegal immigrants. These expensive goods are now fast getting out of reach of the average consumer.
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On Friday, March 20, in an act of domestic “leadership”, US First Lady Michelle Obama has broken ground on the White House lawn for a vegetable garden. She was aided in this chore by fifty-five mostly black school kids from the Dictrict of Columbia. First Lady Michelle is quoted as wanting to set an example for all those US households in need of high-quality nutrition. A courageous and difficult task indeed! After half a century of feeding on an excess of grease, sugar, starch, additives, food coloring and proteins, regularly polluted with fecal matter and assorted germs, now the US people will find it hard to eat something normal and natural. But they shall have to, eventually, because there is no choice.
Now, I wonder, would First Lady Michelle know that she has quite an illustrious predecessor? Perhaps she has more historical consciousness than her husband. After all, speaking before Congress, he claimed that the motor car was invented in the US. Please do not laugh, the man was dead serious and we should rather be worried that such a historical ignoramus is president of what is still regarded as the world's most powerful country. Still, though the wives of powerful men are usually more intelligent than their husbands, I wonder if First Lady Michelle knows that First Lady Rachele, the wife of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, also started a vegetable garden. I bet she does not!
I believe it was in 1941 when First Lady Rachele broke the lawn at the Villa Torlonia in Rome to start a vegetable garden. Her husband was a fanatical non-smoker, did not touch coffee and hardly drank wine, and he was an enthusiastic vegetarian. He really needed his vegetables since he ate little else. First Lady Rachele also wanted to show her “leadership” to the Italian people, who were beginning to feel the pinch of war, with increasing scarcities of all kinds of foods. Quite worrying is it not, this unsuspected similarity betweeen wartime Italy and the depression-ridden US?
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