Bass ackwards food pyramid, sacrificial lambs to the food industry and same-ol-sh*t

Do you remember when the food pyramid came out? I took one look at it and thought, “Wow! If people actually follow this stupid pyramid they’ll all get fat.” What’s astounding is that people actually refer to it as a dietary authority. We all know that the government (U.S. Department of Agriculture) designed the food pyramid. Look at it: You see all that grain at the bottom? They want you to eat that just like calves that are being raised for slaughter are fed grain to fatten them. They benefit financially when you eat corn, wheat and soy. Then you get fat and they make more money off of you when you buy fat loss products. Then, eventually, you’ll get sick and the pharmaceuticals make more money off of you when you buy drugs and go to the hospital where they charge you for shitty dead food (based on that ingenious pyramid) and $10 for each “doctor recommended” liver-impairing Tylenol. They want to keep you well enough to work but sick enough to “need” prescription and OTC “medications” and poor enough to live on crappy grains until you’re about 65. Then, (they secretly hope), you’ll die before they have to actually pay you social security and cover Medicare costs. There are already natural cures for cancer that they suppress. They don’t want to cure cancer. That is not sufficiently profitable. They want to “treat” cancer until you are bankrupt. You, I, we are being farmed.

Do they (the pharmaceutical giants, the agricultural giants and the politicians they own) have any financial interest whatsoever in you living a long and healthy life? Ponder that. If they really wanted you to be healthy they would make artificial sweeteners, HFCS, MSG, and trans fats illegal. They would not allow the chlorine and fluoride in public drinking water. (Water can be purified with UV light, ozone or H2O2, etc.) The FDA, with its zero-and-falling credibility, should not be allowed to interfere with natural health remedies. (There’s a common joke that if something is FDA approved you should avoid it and if the FDA says they have not approved something you might want to go ahead and check it out.) They would not allow prescription drug ads on TV. Rather than subsidize the grain industries they would subsidize organic farms. The domination of agri-business food conglomerates that “own” so much farmland needs to be destroyed. They would encourage everyone to have a small greenhouse as geographically possible. As it stands, the way we eat is slow poison and early death.

One thing people have got to get into their heads: the government does not care about your individual well-being. Their behavior proves it. The government cares about money and power and if they get more money and power by you being sick or getting sick then so be it. War is also a primary money maker. Yes, they will speak to you patronizingly – say nonsense such as they “care” about you, “the American people” rhetoric, blah, blah, a.k.a. reeking bullshit. Know this: if the choice is between you and them, then you lose. Period. If they get more money by promoting corn, wheat and soy and you get diabetes because it’s hidden in the majority of food in the supermarket, well that’s too bad. Yes, you have a choice in what you eat and apparently most people are making the wrong ones – largely because bad food is cheaper. Do you think the majority of the U.S. population can be sick and it’s not going to affect all of us?

It doesn’t matter whether you vote Democrat or Republican because they are the same. They just make different speeches and point fingers at each other. (I think we should elect speech writers. If you can’t write your own speech then you are unqualified for public office.) It’s like deciding between a hot dog with relish and mustard or a hot dog with chili and cheese. They’re both wieners. The idea of one providing real change is ludicrous. They are both a flavor of same-ol-shit.