Aug 16

Written by: Michael Petrus
8/16/2006 2:14 AM

If you have ever heard me give a speech, then you know I love to speak about health related topics. We all know that our most precious asset is our health. There is absolutely nothing that comes before it. We often lose our ability to make intuitive decisions when it comes to health, due to social conditioning.

You're probably wondering why is Chicago the fattest city, in the fattest country on the planet Earth. Well this is not a simple question to answer. We can start by looking at capitalism itself. An economic system based on open competition in a free market and by private or corporate ownership of the means of production and distribution. In order to stay competitive one must constantly look for ways to lower costs.

Lowering costs is a double edged sword, when it comes to our food supply. By lowering costs the population gains by saving money, while the producer gains by selling more, thus greatly increasing their bottom line.

The big problem with this strategy is the health implications of offering the population the cheapest food ingredients known to man. These include processed grain and sweeteners, including sugar, high fructose corn syrup and others.

If you think that by not eating these types of foods you are avoiding the negative effects, you are sadly mistaken. Most of our animal products including chicken and fish are raised the same way we feed our human population. The reason being, it is cost effective, along with getting these animals as big and as fat as possible, in the shortest period of time. Hmmm, that's interesting, if it gets the animals as big and as fat as possible in the shortest period of time, I wondering what it's doing to us.

 

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