I don't usually go to the grocery store but I happened to yesterday, and I am just in awe of all the non-food that tempts us on just about every aisle in the store. It is so easy to just walk up and grab anything off of the shelf that promises to give us enormous benefits if we eat them. You have spaghetti that is reinforced with Omega 3's, packaged, sugar-laden cereal that promises to have loads of fiber and Vitamin C, Kraft Peanut Butter that is not peanut butter at all, and too many other non-foods to mention. But that is what they are: non-foods. And they are very attractive. And we are throwing them into our grocery carts day after day, hour after hour. We are completely buying into the bluff.
But can we really be blamed? Of course not. We're only human after all. Who can resist a nice, cold Nestle Toll-House ice-cream sandwich on a hot day when offered? Not me...I love ice-cream, cookies, wine, beer. The list goes on and on. When tempted with the de-lish, it is so hard to resist. Especially when it is staring us in the face as we hungrily stroll up and down the aisles of a well-stocked grocery store. We are dazed, shocked, really, by all the "good" food we can eat. But it is not food at all. It is imitation, fake food. But it looks so good, so yummy for the tummy, we want to eat it anyway. We even (and this shows just how far gone we really are) want our kids to eat it, too. Not just that, but we think our kids should eat it. We think this food is actually good for them.
Let's call this phenomenon the Luciferian Bling-Bling, the art of razzling and dazzling your innocent subjects into dutiful submission as they blankly and thoughtlessly reach out for whatever it is that's being sold. It's not that we are stupid. We know deep down that buying Oreos and Pepsi for our kids might not be the best thing for them. Stocking up on chips, soda, and frozen, antibiotic-laden, dead red meat with nary a real food that awaits us in the produce section to be found in the cart--we know this isn't the best for us. So why do we do it? Because of The Luciferian Bling-Bling. We simply can't help it. Or can we?
We clearly aren't thinking. We are not conscious. We are forgetting that these food giants like Kraft and Del Monte really are jolly green giants, relative to us. They hold an exorbitant amount of power and wealth. And we buy into the shit they are selling. And though we know deep down the food they all but shove down our throats is killing us, we give them our money, every single day. Why not just cut the middle man out and pay them to kill us directly, scratch the food altogether.
But the Luciferian Bling-Bling goes even beyond the giant food companies. If you look closely (and most of us don't want to) you will see the L.B.B. is what threads the fabric of our modern civilization together, it is the lubrication that keeps the cogs, gears, and motors turning--in the name of progress. It goes all the way down to the meat and dairy boards, the F.D.A., the U.S.D.A., the history of North America, the history of big agriculture, Monsanto, global food shortages, big Pharma, jobs, jobs, jobs, wealth, wealth, wealth, power, power, power. And we are little peons getting crushed in their hands.
It's not a conspiracy. The knowledge is out there. Read The China Study to get a real good look at how consuming animal protein leads to disease and cancer. Read In Defense of Food. Read Fast Food Nation. Watch Forks Over Knives. Watch Earthlings. Watch Food Inc. and King Corn. The knowledge is out there. It's just that so many of us want to stick our heads in the sand and pray to God we don't get sick, though we know deep down the odds are becoming ever greater against us. It's that so many of us are razzled and dazzled by the Luciferian Bling-Bling. We have all but lost the trail back to Eden, a land rich with fruits and vegetables that had met all our needs. Now we have to be fed by Kraft. We feed our kids Kraft as well. We'll come up for air every once in awhile, reading the news headlines of how 1 out of 4 commercial meats are tainted or mad cow, or hog farm waste run-off. Three year-olds have high blood pressure now. We get briefly alarmed, but it isn't long before the Luciferian Bling-Bling takes a-hold of us, and we stick our heads back into the sand and eat crap. Thank god the crap we eat tastes so good or we'd be really screwed.
Eat B(right),
Veggie Daddy
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