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FUCKING. CORN.
Eggs. Did you know that eggs produced today are Omega-3 DEFICIENT?? Yes, because you see, before we started force-feeding chickens CORN, they used to eat bugs and green leafy vegetables, and produced eggs RICH in Omega-3. So now Omega-3 is being ADDED BACK IN by who-knows-what processes... if commercial farmers would just let the chickens eat what they're supposed to eat, there would be no issue with the healthiness of eggs.
My generation has been completely fucked over by agribusiness, and our parents suffer for it too. Heart disease, diabetes, and all the other "Western" illnesses are going to afflict us like no other generation. Thank goodness I've changed my diet to avoid all that shit as much as possible.
You see, the corn chain (I'd call it a food chain, but that would be a LIE) we're consuming from now has completely upset the normal balance of things. Two fatty acids exist in a yin-yang kind of system in the body: Omega-6, and Omega-3. Your body is basically expecting a 4 to 1 Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio, and the corn and corn products that ubiqitously permeate everything create a 50 to 1 ratio with these fats in food and feed products. The fat balances in our livestock have changed too - we are what we eat, people. And we... are CORN.
NO MORE CORN SYRUP. DOWN WITH CORN!!!
My generation has been completely fucked over by agribusiness, and our parents suffer for it too. Heart disease, diabetes, and all the other "Western" illnesses are going to afflict us like no other generation. Thank goodness I've changed my diet to avoid all that shit as much as possible.
You see, the corn chain (I'd call it a food chain, but that would be a LIE) we're consuming from now has completely upset the normal balance of things. Two fatty acids exist in a yin-yang kind of system in the body: Omega-6, and Omega-3. Your body is basically expecting a 4 to 1 Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio, and the corn and corn products that ubiqitously permeate everything create a 50 to 1 ratio with these fats in food and feed products. The fat balances in our livestock have changed too - we are what we eat, people. And we... are CORN.
NO MORE CORN SYRUP. DOWN WITH CORN!!!
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haha, i'm sorry i can't post the macro.
but yeah. corn=fail. though corn on the cob is still nummy.
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But it's your journal in any case, which is definitely a key difference from rants in public :)
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Why aren't you mad that the food chain is literally being poisoned? I'm serious here. People are getting sicker and dying all the time:
mad cow - caused by corporate greed [feeding livestock to each other and illegally selling sick livestock]
bacterial poisoning (e. coli and salmonella) - caused by corporate greed [feeding livestock cheap crap to make them fatter]
rampant obesity - caused by corporate greed [corn syrup!]
And now I learn that chickens themselves are being turned into corn-based bad fat makers. It's bad enough that cows have been turned into cholesterol bombs that breed deadly bacteria, whose manure poisons our water supply and vegetables! Do you realize there was a time in the not-so-distant past when beef and eggs weren't "bad for you"? How is this not unbelievably enraging? We're basically paying agribusiness to kill us.
I won't deny that I'm passionate about food. And it's getting harder and harder to bear more and more news every single day that mass food production is becoming worse and worse for humanity and worse for all the species of plants and animals we're supposed to be cultivating for our consumption. There are going to be ten billion people in the world in a relatively short time, and there will be no real food to feed them with. This is all bad, bad, bad news.
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As we learn more about what causes problems, we find ways around it, whether through regulations that prohibit feeding livestock to each other, or through labeling standards like organic and free range that let people opt for healthier food sources, like chickens who do eat bugs and greens and so on.
An educated populace leads to more demand for healthy business practices, and between public image and current energy prices there is incentive to implement ways to harvest energy from biological waste such as cow manure - a process that's starting to crop up here and there and should pick up more support as time goes on.
Besides, with food, there is always the option of moving someplace where you can supplement your diet with plants you grow yourself, or animals you raise yourself. Difficult, yes, especially if you have to learn how from scratch, but it's an option.
Honestly, plastic worries me far more than corn, because its impact on the environment seems like a far more difficult problem to solve.
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Reckless disregard for human welfare is what we're talking about - putting profits before health. Letting people die because of greed and shortsightedness is unacceptable, regardless of "intent". People still get prosecuted for manslaughter even if they don't "intend" to kill people.
Even if we stopped every bad practice that corporations have put into place right now, they would still do everything in their power to find new ways to put people at risk in order to make a buck. This behavior has to stop, the government needs to actually enforce some laws and ensure the public welfare. They freaking do it in Europe... why does America have to be no better than a third world backwater?
whoa there, Mr. Pollan
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