At 08:57 PM 6/26/06 +0100, Jane Sargeant wrote:
>Sometimes I get so mad at myself for eating rubbish that I know is poison 
>to my body

Maybe you're just not scared enough (like William), or angry enough (like 
me).  You might want to check out some of the articles I have posted up at 
GettingPrimitive.com.  Rather than preaching the "good news" about Paleo, I 
tend to concentrate on the scary stuff about the SAD.  (Not to mention all 
the other toxins, irritants and stressors our bodies are forced to endure 
every day.)

I keep a large (Halloween-sized) bag of candy corn on my bookshelf.  It's 
there to remind me how completely disturbing it is that I used to eat about 
a pound of sugar a day.  Since I decided to go Paleo, I have had NO desire 
to open that bag.  When I walk into a supermarket I am disgusted at how 
much poison there is, close to 100% of the entire frikkin store.  If you go 
into a "mini-mart" it's even worse - there is literally NOTHING you want to 
eat in there.  Zero.  You are literally looking at shelves full of poison 
and crap, nothing else.  Can I take your money please?

It's easy to say the word "poison" in a light way, thinking that you are 
exaggerating.  But it is *not* an exaggeration.  It is the literal 
truth.  Once you realize that we are actually talking about actual POISON, 
your attitude toward it will change considerably.

How did I get to that point, from a guy who ate a pound of sugar a day?

Anger.  Disgust.  Revulsion.

Not at the food itself (necessarily) - but rather at the people who 
manufacture and sell it.  The people who market it to their target 
demographics using flashy advertisements, lobby-driven legal loopholes and 
bogus science.  I simply started researching the ingredients, the 
manufacturing processes, the deep-pocketed legal lobbies, the 
loophole-ridden labeling laws, the diseases and suffering caused by the 
lying pawns-whores-agents-provacateurs of the poison food industry, and 
said ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.  These bastards are getting RICH by selling CRAP and 
KILLING PEOPLE.  They know exactly what they're doing.  They even have the 
nerve to justify it by quoting biased research paid for by their corporate 
bosses, covering their asses with bullshit laws that protect no one but 
their shareholder-accomplices, and doing their damndest to control your 
kids' minds before they even have a chance to learn what decent nutrition is.

Every time a person buys a piece of their poison crap and eats it - or 
worse yet, feeds it to their children - I see a rich MURDERER buying 
himself another house.

Works for me.

- S.




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