The Dairy Show

White House Victory Garden

Well its official, today the Obama family is going to start planting a garden on the south lawn at the White House.  This will be a great symbol for the movement to get people to eat local.  The folks from www.eatheview.org and www.thewhofarm.org should be proud of all the work they did to help make this happen.

I hope its not snowing in Washington today, like it is in NY.

Soda Tax

New York Governor David Paterson wants to start taxing sugar-sweetened drinks 18% to raise money and improve the health of the NY population.

I think its a good idea.  Soda is a major source of useless calories that contribute to the obesity epidemic.  I suppose everyone will just switch to diet soda, but that is unlikely to improve anyone's health.

Here is the state health commissioner Dr. Richard F. Deines doing his version of TheDairyShow 3 minutes of science in 5 minutes and 9 seconds on why he supports this tax.