FUCKING. CORN.
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mik3capEggs. 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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on 2008-08-01 07:00 pm (UTC)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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on 2008-08-01 11:14 pm (UTC)But it's your journal in any case, which is definitely a key difference from rants in public :)
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Posted bywhoa there, Mr. Pollan
on 2008-08-02 04:03 am (UTC)Re: whoa there, Mr. Pollan
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