Vegetables and Berries World

Broccoli Bad Press

Here we go again. Broccoli is getting a bum rap, and American consumers are going to pay. Reacting to the current debate on President Obama’s health care bill (‘Obamacare’), certain politicians and Supreme Court justices are turning broccoli into an ideological scapegoat. “The government can’t force us to eat broccoli,” they’ve said in rebuttal to said government’s will to make universal health insurance mandatory. In our view, this all began with the elder Bush’s declaration, back in 1990: “I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”. And so we have it – first Brussels sprouts, reportedly America’s most hated vegetable, now broccoli, the Republicans’ new nemesis. Crucifer, Lucifer…