Namaste and welcome back to another posting for the Quiet Mouse Strikes back blog.
Today I want to talk about the price of eating healthy. For the sake of this discourse I'm going to focus on salads.
We all need to eat more vegetables, leaner meats, and less carbs and refined sugars, as a society. This is just an undisputed FACT as 1 in 3 Americans is considered obese.
I was pleased to find recently that for the first time in my recent memory, that McDonald's has a basic salad for cheaper than a McDouble cheeseburger. Only about 20 cents difference, but it's a start.
What's sad is that it is more often the other way around. It is more often the case where a salad is MUCH more expensive than cheap burgers to the tune of like $6 for a salad vs. $1.69 to $2.50 for basic burgers at many fast food joints. No wonder the obesity rate is so high. That, in collusion with a lack of gardening, both due to biased laws and government subsidized farming of cheap, fattening foods like corn and soy... we're fucked to say the least.
On top of the whole pyramid scam is the pharmaceutical industry and Monsanto/Bayer who generically engineer poisonous GMO foods that make humans ill and obese. These corporate giants poison us, THEN sell us medicines to the sum of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to alleviate the ailments caused by their poison that can barely be considered "food". That's not to even mention the BILLIONS of dollars spent in the health care system on surgeries, the millions spent on dieting, millions spent on over the counter supplements, etcetera...
All of this could be easily fixed if more Americans would use their property to grow organic FOOD INSTEAD OF LAWNS!!!
Pesticides like glycophosphates found in Roundup leave a chemical residue on the foods they are sprayed on, which is then ingested by the consumer who is then slowly poisoned and leads to future health problems like obesity, diabetes, and even food allergies like Celiac (sensitivity to wheat gluten).
When are Americans going to wake up? When are we going to DEMAND a change to a broken system that rewards greed of the large CAFO and agribusiness industries that are damaging us on a genetic level.
You ARE what you eat. Garbage in equals garbage out. Demand change. Demand that fruits and vegetables be controlled in a pricing index against this over inflation of pricing where a burger is cheaper than a salad. Eat more salad for a healthier lifestyle as well as your leafy greens, fruits, and vegetables. Drink lots of water too.
If enough people demand a change then we will get that message through to the highest levels of the land. Businesses WANT to make money, so if they see the customer demand for organic, pesticide free, antibiotic free, hormone free, etc., the market WILL dictate that change to occur.
I'm gonna end this with a strong statement I have made many times before, but it still is true.
EVERY DOLLAR YOU SPEND IS A VOTE FOR POLICY.
If a company is unethical or poisoning the environment, DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THEIR PRODUCT!!!
It's really that simple. Thank you for your time. This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Humanity.
Today I want to talk about the price of eating healthy. For the sake of this discourse I'm going to focus on salads.
We all need to eat more vegetables, leaner meats, and less carbs and refined sugars, as a society. This is just an undisputed FACT as 1 in 3 Americans is considered obese.
I was pleased to find recently that for the first time in my recent memory, that McDonald's has a basic salad for cheaper than a McDouble cheeseburger. Only about 20 cents difference, but it's a start.
What's sad is that it is more often the other way around. It is more often the case where a salad is MUCH more expensive than cheap burgers to the tune of like $6 for a salad vs. $1.69 to $2.50 for basic burgers at many fast food joints. No wonder the obesity rate is so high. That, in collusion with a lack of gardening, both due to biased laws and government subsidized farming of cheap, fattening foods like corn and soy... we're fucked to say the least.
On top of the whole pyramid scam is the pharmaceutical industry and Monsanto/Bayer who generically engineer poisonous GMO foods that make humans ill and obese. These corporate giants poison us, THEN sell us medicines to the sum of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to alleviate the ailments caused by their poison that can barely be considered "food". That's not to even mention the BILLIONS of dollars spent in the health care system on surgeries, the millions spent on dieting, millions spent on over the counter supplements, etcetera...
All of this could be easily fixed if more Americans would use their property to grow organic FOOD INSTEAD OF LAWNS!!!
Pesticides like glycophosphates found in Roundup leave a chemical residue on the foods they are sprayed on, which is then ingested by the consumer who is then slowly poisoned and leads to future health problems like obesity, diabetes, and even food allergies like Celiac (sensitivity to wheat gluten).
When are Americans going to wake up? When are we going to DEMAND a change to a broken system that rewards greed of the large CAFO and agribusiness industries that are damaging us on a genetic level.
You ARE what you eat. Garbage in equals garbage out. Demand change. Demand that fruits and vegetables be controlled in a pricing index against this over inflation of pricing where a burger is cheaper than a salad. Eat more salad for a healthier lifestyle as well as your leafy greens, fruits, and vegetables. Drink lots of water too.
If enough people demand a change then we will get that message through to the highest levels of the land. Businesses WANT to make money, so if they see the customer demand for organic, pesticide free, antibiotic free, hormone free, etc., the market WILL dictate that change to occur.
I'm gonna end this with a strong statement I have made many times before, but it still is true.
EVERY DOLLAR YOU SPEND IS A VOTE FOR POLICY.
If a company is unethical or poisoning the environment, DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THEIR PRODUCT!!!
It's really that simple. Thank you for your time. This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Humanity.
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