After watching the piece on CNN about how "manufacturers" prepare the packaged food we ate I think I have lose my appetite.
The concern is not for our nutritional and health benefits but rather for extending product shelf life. This is frightening to me!
Restaurants prefer to use poly-unsatured oils which create a food of sorts that will not spoil and can sit on the counter for hours looking as if it just came off the grill. In fact, the food product will last eternally looking fresh and staying moist.
So, it's nothing about freshness and nutrition for the consumor; but more about saving money for the manufacturers. Once again pulling one over on the food consummer.
It has gotten so bad that I have resorted to celery filled with peanut butter, green peppers, and carrots. I'm afraid of lettuce. California allows cattle to raom uphill, above the lettuce patches.
Where is our government throughout all of this. Isn't it the governments job to protect us; a sort of homeland security. But, government is in cahoots with business. So government works against us?
Anyway, I wanted to lose some weight. Have you looked down the isles of the supermarkets? It's all cereal, chips and more junk. All sugar!
The government gives corn and soy bean farmers huge incentives and tax breaks but fruit and vegetable farmers do not. The trend is changing; however, and now produce farmers are beginning to get help. The fact is that if everyone demanded their daily requirement of fruits and vegetables there would not be enough to go around.
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