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09-28-2008, 05:00 PM
Devil King
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Although I agree wholeheartedly, especially as it is easier to home cook something yourself rather than sit/stand in line for fast food, the rising cost of health food vs pre prepared is staggering.
Most REAL health food is highly expensive where as real food (non prepared) does contain lots of preservatives in some form.
Almost all canned foods contain high amounts of added crap, as well as LOTS of food contain the very unhealthy HFCS.
Grocery stores have been inserting CO2 into meat packages to keep them fresher "looking" although the meat itself has went beyond it's freshness date. Ever see those bulgy cellophane wrapped ground hamburger at stores? That is CO2 filled, and very nasty stuff.
While it is up to us to start eating healthy, it get's harder to do when the gov't and the FDA are on the side of big companies to help save $$ by making food unhealthy but affordable.
The one good side effect of high corn prices due to ethenol, is the lower cost of sugar compared to HFCS. Which btw was added to foodstuff over sugar not due to health or cost, but because of the MASSIVE corn lobby that pressured the gov't to allowing this nasty additive to our food.
Look around the world and you will see that HFCS is a banned substance in many countries, even US companies in other parts of the world do not use and show they can make these products available and affordable if they choose to.
I promise, you're preaching to the choir in my case. Have you see the commercial that was put out by the corn lobby, telling us how we can eat HFCS because we've been lied to about it? There is no doubt that stores like Whole Foods cost more than the food at stores like Safeway or Food Lion. But there are alternatives. Many times the local Farmer's Market is a good alternative. (But it's not always a certainty that the food there isn't chemically treated as well. It's something you have to research. Honestly, the more perfect the fruit or vegitable looks on the outside, likely the more chemical pesticides were used to grow it.)
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but the opportunistic mega companies practice so greedily that I can see why some people would subscribe to the idea. As businesses grew they had to find ways of getting their products to their chains further and further away from their sources. This lead to the explosion of treated foods, which had the effect of health concerns, (which the pharmecutical companies stepped in and got rich off of and now has a vested interest in maintaining) which lead to the call for untreated foods, which lead to it becoming the craze de jour, which lead to the higher prices for less treated foods, which has lead to those businesses growing to the size of their less-healthy competitors and their prices skyrocketing. The lesson is that if necessity is the mother of invention, greed is the wooden spoon with which she beats you.
It's the same basic paradigm of the oil industry. Now we know that using their product is bad for us and the planet, they're sinking billions and billions of dollars into developing and peddling alternatives to us, so they can go from being robber barons of the oil industry to solar and wind robber barons.
So, MAN LAW: Pay attention and become an informed consumer.
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