Life Style
It's astonishing, isn't it, that we've come to the point where humans are defined by little plastic cards and numbers? Take it all away and suddenly we're nobody. Henry David Thoreau would have a field day with this. It's got to be turned around. We have to get back to a simpler, purer way of living, and we can start by eating food that is, well, food, not a bunch of chemicals and artificial ingredients. Go to your kitchen right now, check the boxes, wrapping, and containers the stuff you ingest come in. Bagels, for instance, used to be made of flour, yeast, and water. But buy a package at the super market and you'll find mono- and diglycerides, sodium steroyl, lactylate, potassium iodate, enzymes, calcium iodate, arzodicarbonimide, calcium propionate and potassium sorbate, guar gum, sulfiting agent, and soy lecithin. With the food industry doing this to our bodies, and television taking our souls, who needs an identity?
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:53 AM
6 Comments:
Good heavens!
No one is doing anything to us!
Those who make unhealthy food choices and who watch TV are doing it to themselves.
You make it sound like Big Brother has chained us to the couch in from of a TV and is shoving Twinkies down our throats.
Buy bread from the store bakery. Don't watch TV. It's very simple.
I personally bake my own bread, make my own mayonnaise, and eat nothing with sugar in it. I watch very little TV. I live a pretty "clean" life in most respects, but it's a choice that requires vigilance and attention, and most people have short attention spans. (I'll grant you that avoiding Twinkies couldn't be easier, but there are subtle and insidious traps that aren't quite as "simple." The markeitng forces at work are insidious and invasive.)
Love this cartoon, John C. Made me fall off chair laughing. To each his own, personally I hate cooking therefore am a terrible cook. Guess I need the preservatives to keep me going, I think. Rarely watch TV except Mystery on PBS Sunday nights and the news on the weekday evenings. Short attention span is me!
Good cartoon John... profound really.
You're right... most of us can't be relied upon to make good choices preferring to eat "for taste" than eat "for nourishment". Sad but true that manufacturers know this... and add flavour enhancers and a truckload of chemical preservatives to boxed food to make things "taste" nice...(and last forever)!
The real acid test though is eating out where we can't "read the label" before consuming the food served.
I try to eat fresh whole food... meat real veges fresh(cultured) dairy and that's all. No wheat no sugar. It's a challenge.
Most people couldn't be bothered and wonder why they are getting sick in record numbers.
Exactly right, Jean, it is a challenge. I challenge anyone to make the determnination they'll only eat real food, no chemicals, no additives. It's not a question of Twinkies, it's everything in the market in a package, a lot of addictive crap that few people ever notice.
My pet peave is the corn syrup added to everything under the sun. With huge government corn subsidies manufacturers are reaping the "benefits" of all the surplus and creating cheap sweetners for EVERYTHING! And people wonder how it is America suddenly got fat?!
But I digress...the theme is identity theft...a real problem and a frightening one at that! How humiliating to identify my life experience and humanity in a number...and how humbling to know it can be "stolen" away. Interesting times indeed...
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