If you haven't seen Food, Inc. yet, I highly recommend. (Watch the trailer) I am a little late jumping on the outrageous-food-industry-documentary boat, having only seen Super Size Me a few years ago. King Corn is another one I need to see. But Food, Inc. is a very powerful documentary that will probably make you want to stop eating meat. All these documentaries seem to reach the same conclusion: Wal-Mart is evil, our government doesn't care about our health, and most of the stuff we eat is made in a cup by a scientist, aka, not real. I think we can pretty much all agree that partially hydrogenated soybean oil, high fructose corn syrup, and aspartame are bad for you. They're artificial, manufactured substances put in our food because it's cheap. The government subsidizes the corn industry, who decides what we eat. Added sugar, real, fake, or fructose in food is generally a bad idea.
Some doctors have argued that the causes of modern obesity and exhaustion include eating foods that our bodies were never meant to eat. They argue that we have certain patterns embedded into our DNA--it's better to go to sleep when the sun sets, because, pre-electricity, that's kind of what humans had to do. Pre-cheetos, humans had to go forage for some tasty berries instead of digging through the pantry in the middle of the night. I would be hard-pressed to find a doctor who would tell me that high fructose corn syrup is totally awesome, but thankfully, we have this cheerful black lady to do so for us, courtesy of the corn industries. Thanks to Margaret for tipping me off to this abomination of a commercial:
"Cigarettes are made from real tobacco, have no artificial ingredients, and are fine in moderation!"
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