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This is yet another example of governments acting on behalf of corporations, not the people the government is supposed to be representing.
I don't agree with this article's idea that there is no more room to grow better food than grains, but they do make a good point about how corporations have directed the masses [you and I] to consume the crops that provide the best profits, not the best nutrition.
Our health problem of obesity has a few factors, like watching TV ads that make us salivate and the go to the fridge like a bunch of automatons, but the primary problem of obesity is what we put in our mouths, of course.
What we put in our mouths has been largely dictated to us by years of conditioning and by economic persuasion. We see the cheap food made with the industry chosen crops, and it tastes good, so thats what we eat. If carrots were cheapest and on TV day and night, is there any doubt we would all be eating more carrots?
Bread. Carbohydrates. Sugar. It is no "Wonder" [bread] that we are fat and ill. Wonderbar. WonderBread. No wonder we are fat. Cheap to produce, big profits, to heck with people's health - just tell them lies, add sugar, and they will eat it.
Crops that use fossil fuels for fertilizer, and for pulling the plow , are the favorite of corporations bent on the biggest profits compared to the inmvestments required. That means cereal crops, the carbos.
To make these bland grains taste better and have a nice texture, we add Trans Fats. Ummmm, yummy - "but my Tummy is bloated! Plus now I am a diabetic, and I have heart disease" - and then the doctors will say: "Take a pill, this is normal, don't complain - everyone else is handling it so much better than you are"
This "Epidemic of Bad Foods for the human race" is not because we are running out of croplands - much good land sits idle, farmers paid to plow up fields to keep the prices up. If we don't seem to have room to grow real food, it is an artificially created problem.
humans thrive on "whole foods" - stuff that grows and can be eaten "as is". Be it meat or veggies or fruits or eggs or seeds and nuts, these are the whole foods that provide humans with what we need most for nutrition. Bread is not it, but bread is what we are fed, with a spoon full of propaganda to make the corporations happy, and humans in ill health.
Be a wise consumer, and "get wise" to the corporate inspired diet that is ruining our health.
...or die fat and unhappy 25 years too soon...and die as you lived - totally unaware of the world around you.
Karlin
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This is yet another example of governments acting on behalf of corporations, not the people the government is supposed to be representing.
I don't agree with this article's idea that there is no more room to grow better food than grains, but they do make a good point about how corporations have directed the masses [you and I] to consume the crops that provide the best profits, not the best nutrition.
Our health problem of obesity has a few factors, like watching TV ads that make us salivate and the go to the fridge like a bunch of automatons, but the primary problem of obesity is what we put in our mouths, of course.
What we put in our mouths has been largely dictated to us by years of conditioning and by economic persuasion. We see the cheap food made with the industry chosen crops, and it tastes good, so thats what we eat. If carrots were cheapest and on TV day and night, is there any doubt we would all be eating more carrots?
Bread. Carbohydrates. Sugar. It is no "Wonder" [bread] that we are fat and ill. Wonderbar. WonderBread. No wonder we are fat. Cheap to produce, big profits, to heck with people's health - just tell them lies, add sugar, and they will eat it.
Crops that use fossil fuels for fertilizer, and for pulling the plow , are the favorite of corporations bent on the biggest profits compared to the inmvestments required. That means cereal crops, the carbos.
To make these bland grains taste better and have a nice texture, we add Trans Fats. Ummmm, yummy - "but my Tummy is bloated! Plus now I am a diabetic, and I have heart disease" - and then the doctors will say: "Take a pill, this is normal, don't complain - everyone else is handling it so much better than you are"
This "Epidemic of Bad Foods for the human race" is not because we are running out of croplands - much good land sits idle, farmers paid to plow up fields to keep the prices up. If we don't seem to have room to grow real food, it is an artificially created problem.
humans thrive on "whole foods" - stuff that grows and can be eaten "as is". Be it meat or veggies or fruits or eggs or seeds and nuts, these are the whole foods that provide humans with what we need most for nutrition. Bread is not it, but bread is what we are fed, with a spoon full of propaganda to make the corporations happy, and humans in ill health.
Be a wise consumer, and "get wise" to the corporate inspired diet that is ruining our health.
...or die fat and unhappy 25 years too soon...and die as you lived - totally unaware of the world around you.
Karlin
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