Every Dollar is a Vote for Policy

Hello, my friends... this is the Quiet Mouse coming back at ya again!!
So it hit me as something that needs to be addressed when I was at Taco Bell getting lunch and I see a man named Greg at the counter (so tagged "customer service champion"). Greg is a 50 something man who is actually very intelligent and we talked for a bit, between customers, about world policy since Taco Bell is fund raising to feed third world kids right now.
The most ironic thing is that we, as a country, would not have to provide food and welfare to all these countries if we had not destabilized their economies to begin with. I think that it is awful how in this country, primarily with our government subsidizing production of foods, mainly CORN; the rest of the world cannot compete with the low cost of our production to grow and harvest their own crops at a competitive rate in the global market, thus, we have created a monster of dependence on  our cheap, often GMO, CRAP.
What is worse is that our country has the audacity to withold life saving AIDS medicine to these third world countries because they do not want to eat genetically modified or highly processed foods. Refined and processed carbs, sugars, and GMO foods have led to an overall decline in health worldwide, not just in the US... although the obesity rate in this country is blown way up recently. And why is this happening?
Lets start with the biggest culprit, not only to obesity, but the ever so quickly rising pandemic of type 2 diabetes as well as countless other health problems: HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Now just on a side note, HFCS is produced by using inedible corn that is processed with YES, believe this: SULFURIC ACID!!! How can our government justify subsidizing millions of pounds of inedible corn each year?? Well it is not meant for human consumption, but rather for animal consumption. But wait... isn't that bad for the cows and chickens too? YES, OF COURSE IT IS!! It is all about cheap fix to fatten up the animals, just like they want to fatten US up. Yeah, I said it!! The government believes that humans are much like cows, fat, lazy and stupid. So why not just fatten us up and keep us glued to the propaganda box where they are busy distracting us with bulls@#t like Jersey Shore on MTV that doesn't even play music any longer or all the supposed "reality" shows that only bring out the distrust and darkest sides of people's personalities. Or even worse than that we are stuck with arrogant a$$holes like Glen Beck or O'Reilly on FOX right wing propaganda news, telling half truths or just flat out lying to people, bending words of others to promote fear and anti-American news coverage.
But anyway... back to HFCS.
This is another processed product that does NOT OCCUR NATURALLY ON THIS PLANET. Our human bodies cannot process this molecule on a very basic level, and it quite literally tears holes in our kidneys, liver, and pancreas. Our bodies do not know how to process this molecule, so it is turned directly to FAT and stored for later while we pack on calories like bears hibernating for the winter. The problem is that we don't hibernate, nor do we exercise properly for that matter.
I know you're thinking, "Well Quiet Mouse... I just don't have the time to exercise."
Bull!! Remember how I said that every dollar is a vote. How much are you paying for cable television?? Netflix?? Redbox?? Eating out??
Every dollar we spend at McDonalds, Taco Bell, BK, or even the grocery store directly influences policy. But if we allow ourselves to get sucked into the Matrix (you'll hear me say this a lot!!) of high processed food and low processed body... then we are only going to get what we have always gotten.
Think about it like this very simply since most of us like Disney movies. I'm sure most of us have seen the movie "A Bug's Life", right? Well, WE are the ANTS... and the big business and politicians are the GRASSHOPPERS. Those jokers are sitting up on capitol hill laughing rolling in OUR money hoping to hell we don't realize their are many many more of US than there are of THEM!!
Think about that when you are in the grocery store next time!! Put down the Doritos with a hundred ingredients you don't know or cannot pronounce. Put back the TV dinners that are highly processed and full of unwanted and unneeded calories. Go with simple carbs like rice and pasta along with lean meats and nothing that comes in a box or a tube, YUCK!! Make it a plan to try at least ONE new recipe a week from scratch to start. Change starts with baby steps but it starts from WITHIN. We cannot rely on Washington DC to make the policies that WE should be making for ourselves every day!! Eat fruits, fresh, local and organic. Deny the pesticide companies thier place in the market. Tell companies like MONSANTO to eat a D*#K!! EVERY DOLLAR IS A VOTE!! Are you voting for crap? Or a healthier, smarter planet?
This has been the Quiet Mouse signing off once again.
Peace and love be with my brothers and sisters of all nations!!