good discussion y'all. I really enjoyed reading the differing opinions here. my final two-cents, we as americans eat bullshit for breakfast lunch and dinner, but it is not all our own faults, because we are SOLD this crap, MARKETED this crap, and the affects of this crap on our bodies and minds makes eating it compulsive. And as it was pointed out, I am not talking about Fast Food Nation, I am talking about the food at the so-called grocery store. For example, why does a pop tart or a box of cereal have to have between 25-75% sugar? Why does there have to be so much extra fat added to all our prepared foods? Why is there so much fucking salt in everything? I say the food industry puts excessive amounts in this food because, duh, common sense says it makes the food 'taste' better (until you go vegan and have a moment of clarity like a drunk or a smoker and realize it was never really good at all), but the exploitative aspect is that these companies KNOW that customers prefer these products even if it risks their health.
This same debate went around the 70s-80s about tobacco, when everyone said "oh its a smoker's choice" and all that, and we accepted tobacco as a reasonable part of our society, and now today.. tobacco is considered EVIL! Eventually we will come to our senses just like with tobacco, and restrict this garabage, its selling, its advertising and marketing, etc etc.
In america we as americans have unprecedented access to REAL food, and yet we avoid it like the plague, and prefer to eat the bullshit that is literally killing us
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Originally Posted by Shifty Prophet
Besides, aren't you going to work for Wal-Mart? They are huge conglomerate beast that perpetuates many unhelathy and unfair situations.
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yes, didn't you notice that I framed that confession with the statement "I am overwhelmed with self-pity and disgust.."
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Originally Posted by afterthefact
I love how you start this thread about how fasst food is a drug, and how horrible it is, and then your sig is two pics about drugs.
American food is a drug! OH NO!
Guess what? So are those mushrooms you are always talking about...
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