by sammielee24 13 Replies latest jw friends
Yeah, why would a manufacturer want to put diesel in butter?
Anyway, re the OP--yes I am concerned about the food I eat. I wouldn't call it worry. I am a colon cancer survivor and I follow the evidence about preventing it from coming back.
I rarely eat processed foods, and almost never eat meat. Free range eggs, tofu, grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, cheeses, nuts. Some organic.
I don't think we have a lot of reason to trust processed foods.
I don't worry about what I eat,I ate eggs in the salmanella scare(still do),I ate beef during the BSE scare(still do) I eat all the stuff the government say are bad for you,still alive last time I looked.
PETA has to be involved here somehow.
That said, there is an old saying about sausage: it's like laws, you don't want to see it being made.
Unless you grow it yourself, raise it yourself, etc., you just won't know what's in it. And, the more processing that is in it, you know it's worse for you.
So, Pop-Tarts, and crap like that is just vile. When I see people with food cards buying stuff like that I think that there should be limits on what people can purchase. If Obama truly wants to limit obesity to help health care costs, make Soda-Pop, chips, candy and anything with corn-syrup in it off limits from a government run Food Card (food stamps) purchase. rant/
I won't bother watching this movie. I don't want to know. I'd become a vegan, growing my own stuff in a flower pot. I'd then be dead in a few months of malnutrition.
If Obama truly wants to limit obesity to help health care costs, make Soda-Pop, chips, candy and anything with corn-syrup in it off limits from a government run Food Card (food stamps) purchase. rant/
Just for Food Card purchases? Have you really thought about this? I worked as a cashier at Meijer for nearly a year. I noticed that people with Bridge Cards tended to buy healthier foods than people who shopped with the cards. I saw more produce, organic or soy milk, whole wheat breads, organic eggs, etc. in the carts of people who had the card. My theory is that the Bridge card doesn't cover non food items, leaving all the money for food. The Food Stamp program was helping these families actually afford healthy foods.
Maybe your idea should be expanded to all customers. Why not just ban junk foods, soft drinks, transfats, etc? Nitrates, high fructose corn syrup, refined flower, sugars, etc. Just ban the stuff, anything unhealthy, and give incentives to restaurants, especially fast food places, to serve healthy foods.
Stopping poorer people from buyin the foods you mentioned isn't going to solve America's obesity problem because obesity is a problem all across class lines. And yes, America does have class lines.
