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Long as You Buy, Big Food Doesn't Care If You Live or Die



You know those commercials and ads that show how much the food industries care about your well being? The ones where happy and healthy families are laughing and having a good time while consuming generous quantities of the company's latest "wholesome" invention?  Bullshit! Pure propaganda! Don't believe a word of it. The agriculture, dairy and food industries only care about making money - as much as they can - at the expense of the customer's physical, emotional and spiritual health. Your health and happiness are of no concern, despite all those feel-good images of vibrant revelers.

We've seen the warnings about mercury in tuna, wood pulp in Parmesan cheese, ground beef treated with ammonia to retard E. coli. These are examples of how the media exposes some of the dangerous and deceptive practices of Big Food. The problem is, the public assumes corrective measures will be taken once an issue is exposed - and that's just fine with Big Food. Truth is, too often nothing changes. That means an uninformed customer is their best customer.
The original role of the US Department of Agriculture was to promote the products of the animal agriculture industry.
Another incorrect assumption is that the US Department of Agriculture exists to protect the consumer. But in fact, the original role of the USDA was to promote the products of the animal agriculture industry. For example: over fifty years ago, the USDA began promoting the so-called four basic food groups, with meat and dairy products in the number one and two spots on the list. Financed by the meat and dairy industry and backed by nutritional scientists on the payroll of the meat and dairy industry, this promotion ignored real science.

Add to that, food manufacturers who claim to support the idea of healthy eating, while actually conspiring against it. Like the tobacco cartel, food makers have found ways to fill their products with ingredients (sugar, sugar substitutes, synthetic fats) that increase the desire to consume. Science has learned that sugar has a greater addictive affect on brain chemistry than cocaine.

Some producers even go so far as to package many of these harmful concoctions as "health food". This pretend health food may not be as harmful, but in most cases, it is far from healthy. Anyone else remember when Wonder Bread claimed to "Build strong bodies 12 ways"!

The bad news is that the food industry has incrementally taken over our brains, both figuratively and literally. The good news is the damage can be reversed. We can reclaim the brain and learn to make nutritional decisions based on what is truly best for our health, rather than the influence of propaganda or chemistry.

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