Why All The Chemicals?

This blog is about one of our most precious resource food, although water is a more natural resource when people think of precious resources yet food energizes and stimulates us to do great things every day. This blog is about what companies put in our food and why they do it and the attempts by a brave few to stand up to thuggish corporations who prosecute these evil deeds. It is also a challenge to people to start living and investing in different choices in life on what we eat.

I will begin by going back seventy years to WWII not for the historical aspect but the visual aspect of what people use to look like and what we look like today. You look at those pictures or videos of 1945 and you saw starvation on the faces of almost everyone. Okay you could say it was war okay fast forward to the 1950's some five to ten years after the war, you still saw fit "skinny" people walking around, not muscle bound Arnolds but people who were fit, active and relatively healthy. Okay the you could say the boom is happening in the west and all that was was American and Soviet propaganda on the "great human being" in their respective societies okay. The sixties, seventies and into the mid nineties people in the world were relatively the same and then Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thactcher and Brian Mulrooney were elected and things changed for the worse.


That's about the time the new idea of Conservatism set in and changed the political climate for ever. It wasn't about balancing budgets and serving the way the old Conservatives did, this was a new harsh survive or die type of Conservatism that intoduced the Christian right into the equasion in the States and tough economic policies that allied themselves untill this day with the corporate elite which only care was about profit margins and sustainability of the markets instead of the well being of the individual.


This new idea spread to the food companies as well who now had the green light to test new chemicals in their food products. NAFTA in the late 1980's allowed Canadian and American food Corporations to dictate the level of production and distribution away from the farmers and processors. NAFTA was not the only agreement that set in stone the infection of fatening foods in our eating cycle. The European Union agreed in the early 1990's to give similar powers to food companies to control what went into our food. The agreement was not binding unlike the NAFTA disgrace and within a few years most nations in the EU opted out. Only England, Germany and France remained in the deal and I'm sure you know why the richest in Europe remained tied to the corporate agreement.


In one of those nations though France there has been protests and successful concessions from the puppets of the Corporate State. In the mid 1990's the French farmers decided to take action in their own hands. During nation wide protests a few of them took hostage food company executives in the rural north and demanded not only they be paid the full amount for their labours but that the chemicals stop being put into the food they were processing. After a two month standoff the state capitulated and the French assembly signed into to law in 1997 the clean food bill.

Here in North America our food continues to be contaminated not by lesteria as was the terrorizing fear a year ago but by chemicals that make our food ten times larger and much more addictive. The fatening of our society including yours truly is not without our own faults but the fact that the "healthy alternatives" are ten times more expensive doesn't help things either. A gym membership these days is more expensive let alone the HST here in Ontario that will be added to the expensive cost effective July 1st. Farmers market and other healthy food alternatives are also more expensive than that chemically filled garbage and in a time where peoples salaries go down and prices are going up peoples health is the loser in this battle.

I want to be healthy and live longer but I can't afford it, excuses shouldn't come into this but look at the facts of our society and you'll understand my view. I hope you take this blog to heart before the chemicals get to it first. Thank you and take care for now.