Friday, September 04, 2009

 

Food for Thought

I'm torn. I can't choose between a couple of items that caught my interest in today's New York Times. Should I write about two chiefs of police that broke into a woman's home to steal items that they thought would bring a nice price from supermarket tabloids? Should I write about a group of the nations largest food food manufacturers pushing the Food and Drug Administration to approve a program to "help shoppers easily identify smarter food and beverage choices" that would suggest that Coco Krispies and Froot Loops constitute a healthy breakfast? Decisions, decisions.

At times in my past, I have subscribed to a list of conspiracy theories, some of them plausible, some pretty much out of left field. Sometimes theories out of left field turned out to be fact.

I know that, just like all other everyday Americans, the food industry is just trying to make a few hundred billion. That said, I have to wonder if the foodies are now in league with the druggies and the health insurance executives in pushing unhealthy food to complete the cycle. First unhealthy food, making people need to go to the doctor, making doctors prescribe drugs, giving insurance companies the opportunity to overcharge the public.

Is this a conspiracy to completely transform the American people into sheep to be lined up to shear and then slaughter? Wait a minute- could the funeral industry be involved as well?

Look at the nice, bright green check marks on the labels telling us that the mayonnaise that is the highest in fat content is the best to spread on processed white flour based bread to hold processed baloney and American cheese and iceberg lettuce is an excellent lunch. Keep eating it, it's healthy. Just don't look in the mirror or worry about needing a new wardrobe of ever increasing size garments.

Are we just thinking meat to these people? Of course we are. That is what we are in just about every facet of the American economy. We are here to provide for industry, both as tool of manufacture and mouth for consumption of what's produced. Wake up. Look around. The evidence is everywhere.

Tomorrow- celebrity obsession and two chiefs of police.
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