Tortured Foods

Briefly getting away from the torture of enemy combatants and other predominantly Muslim prisoners by the Bush administration enforcers theme, there is the issue of corporate control and the plethora of ways that corporate economic dominance has created multiple problems for people and the environment.

In this context, for me there are only two food groups; corporate food and organic food. There is no need to go any further.

Corporate food is mostly dead. There is very little to no life in corporate food. This is because it is food that is overly processed and preserved. Some of it is also radiated and some is genetically modified. Some is genetically modified, processed, and preserved. How's your appetite doing?

Genetic modification is accomplished primarily to enable agribusiness to farm without the 'hindrance' of insects. Less effort in combating the bugs equals more profit for the economically modified neo-billionaire.

Just a long shot guess here, but I'll wager those who consume genetically modified foods will also develop an as yet identified series of illnesses and health related physical problems. There's always room for more diseases in a society or world that is fundamentally out of balance. A few people will consume this stuff and do fine. Those same people will thrive in a corporate atmosphere while the rest of us wonder - how do they do that.

This rant comes as a result of seeing this BBC article: Additives 'cause bad behaviour'

Cocktails of food additives in children's diets may be responsible for hyperactive behaviour, say researchers.

A Food Standards Agency study on 300 randomly selected children found hyperactivity rose after a drink containing additive combinations.

Sunset yellow (E110) - Colouring found in squashes
Carmoisine (E122) - Red colouring in jellies
Tartrazine (E102) - New colouring in lollies, fizzy drinks
Ponceau 4R (E124) - Red colouring
Sodium benzoate (E211) - Preservative
Quinoline yellow (E110) - Food colouring
Allura red AC (E129) - Orange / red food dye

Seems to me that this is old news. But apparently many have not heard it the first few thousands of times it was elucidated over the past 30 to 40 years.