Stop!

Stop the Insanity! Do you remember that woman we all thought was so nutty? That super skinny bitch that used to be huge but after "stopping the insanity" she magically shed all of her extra pounds and emerged on the scene as a hard bodied, buzz cut, bizarro who was always screaming STOP THE INSANITY? If you don't remember, her name is Susan Powter and she is just one of many people who are putting themselves out there trying to convince people to STOP! Just stop. Think. I rank Susan Powter right up there with Richard Simmons. When I first saw both of these people I thought "Cheeses! These people are irritating!"

Now, today, I identify with them. I am one of them just waiting to burst out of my seams in an Incredible Hulk sort of way. These people have to be completely outrageous, in order to get your attention.

I just don't get it. And I used to be one of the people that have me so worked up right now, not even a decade ago, I was one of the people who don't see. Now I see. And it's killing me that I haven't been able to somehow make you see. You've been with me the whole way, some of you. You have watched but you have not seen!

I am so irritated that I am on the verge of becoming irritating. Our food is fucked, excuse my language but there is no other adjective that describes it more accurately - fucked. None of it can be safely eaten without deep scrutinization.

Each and every time you eat something that is processed or given to you through a window, you are contributing to ALL of the problems with the world. You are at fault. How do you like that? You may be contributing unknowingly but some of you, and you know who you are, have been listening to me spew for years at this point and still - you sit outside a drive thru window and pay your $1.99 to contribute to everything that is wrong in the world. You know who you are.

Eating a Big Mac or any other nasty excuse for food from a window is directly contributing to big corporate greed, laws that are written to support big corporate greed rather than human safety, pollution, animal suffering (I am not a vegetarian), hunger (yes - hunger), the greedy man's complete and utter disregard for the wonder of nature, addiction, malnutrition, political corruption, and the loss of family values and culture. Those are just a few of the world's problems that your Big Mac contributes to, let me know what your hot button issue is and I'll be happy to explain how your Big Mac is contributing to that too.

We have allowed cheap fake food to replace actual food. Now, there is so much at stake that we are on the verge of losing control completely - it's going to get to the point where we will have to grow it ourself - if we can even get untampered with seeds to grow, in order to fuel our body with actual food.

We are at a point where even food that looks like real food is not actually food. It's more like the idea of food, as Michael Pollan has been trying to tell you for years in his books such as The Botany of Desire, In Defense of Food, or The Omnivore's Dilemma but he isn't outrageous enough - most of you have no idea who he is.

Our "food" production and cultivation has changed more in the past 100 years than in the previous 10,000 years. Our bodies have not kept up - even if you strongly believe in evolution, as I do, it is not possible that we have evolved enough to function properly on this new food. It is garbage people - garbage.

You cannot eat fast food, boxed food, pre prepared pasta salad chemical waste, cookies, candy bars, mass produced meat and phlegm - otherwise known as milk, and expect not to get chronic health issues in return. Maybe it's just a chronic yeast infection, or maybe it's depression, or maybe it's diabetes - ALL OF IT is in large part due to the fact that we are malnourished as a nation. We don't eat food. We are eating the idea of food and it is leaving us starved - we continue eating more and more because we are so desperately in need of things like vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phyto-sterols, essential fatty acids, carotenoids, flavanoids, and other strange words in oder to function in our polluted world. Our bodies are incredible but not incredible enough to overcome this lack of actual fuel. We're filling our gas tanks with Raid and wondering why our engines aren't operating properly.

I understand why some people resort to bleached buzz cuts or horrible shorts to try and get their point across - I'm about to do both and then some. Food companies are the worst of the worst. The chemical companies that work along side them are also just as bad. At the top of the horrible list is our government who has allowed the food companies to almost overnight take complete control of what we eat. The fact that the FDA has anything to do with educating the general public regarding food is absolutely laughable. I couldn't be more disgusted. The people that have headed up the FDA for the last - who knows how long, were the previous CEO's of these chemical and food companies. They do things to support the chemical companies, the food companies, and don't even get me started on the drug companies.

The FDA could care less about the integrity of our food. If they did, they would have never allowed a patent to be placed on a seed - a genetically modified seed - a soy seed - one that will survive as much Round Up weed killer as you could possibly spray on it - one that can cross pollinate into our good and honest farmer's farms. A seed with a patent that blows into someone's farm - through the course of nature. Once that patented seed enters honest farmer's farm and takes root, the company(Montsanto) with the patent can sue honest farmer for everything they have - and win. AND this new seed does not reseed itself - you have to buy new seeds next year. This sounds like horrible fiction but it is happening. Now - 90% of our soy is modified. Our wheat, corn, and cotton is close behind and the tomatoes and squash have been altered. And, there's experimentation with splicing drugs into the foods. They are going to start selling cloned meat if they have not already and they don't feel it's important that you know that.

The reason why a bag of Frito's is cheaper than a carrot is because our government subsidizes corn and not carrots. Our tax dollars pay for corn to be grown and purchased at a premium - with federal tax dollars - your tax dollars. Corn is so abundant the world over because 30% of our crops are corn. Thousands of Mexican farmers have lost their entire livelihood and legacy - it's cheaper to buy our corn than it is to grow their own. A bag of Frito's should not be cheaper than a carrot! They create new and more disgusting ways to manipulate this corn everyday - they turn it into chemicals to fill those "food" packages with. They have to do something with it. Our government must stop subsidizing so much corn and soy.

Unfortunately a bag of Frito's is cheaper than a carrot. We have to force change. These huge food companies will do everything in their power to keep you buying into their products. They put pictures of quaint and cute little farms on their packages of bacon when in reality that poor pig endured a short life of absolute terror before being placed in the refrigerator of your supermarket.

We have to wake up to this. We just have to - for the sake of our children and for their children. Another 10 years of this and we will be in serious, serious trouble - scratch that - we are already in serious trouble. We have to suck it up and pay more for the carrot! We have become addicted to this crap, a product that addicts people is the actual goal of many of these companies - who is more profitable than an addict? I have my struggles with addiction, I know how hard it is.

I understand that it very difficult for a family to justify spending $20 for an evening meal of fresh actual food than $10 at a drive thru. I understand time is tight and the last thing many people feel like doing is preparing dinner but somehow we have to start voting with our dollars and buying real food. We just have to, otherwise we are destined for a future of fat, ugly, stupid, and otherwise ill people - all people will be fat, ugly, stupid, and ill - not just most people.

You don't have chronic yeast infections because you are unlucky or because the world hates you. It is directly and completely linked to the processed food you insist on buying and eating and feeding your children. If you eliminate those foods and start using some basic supplements to replenish your system and restore balance then this problem will go away. So will most of the other problems you have with your health. Once you do this, you will understand. You have no idea how absolutely infuriating it is to watch you feed yourself garbage and ignore me while I continue to try and explain to you that the reason you are always sick is because you constantly pour high fructose corn syrup or even worse, aspartame down your throat.

You just go ahead and continue wallowing in your misery. Keep putting chemical waste into your body and contributing to ALL that is wrong in the world. I have given up on you because I can't seem to get through your thick skull. I don't know what else to do. You have to be completely blind and completely stoopid not to understand at this point, that happy cows in fact come from green grass - which is scarce in much of California. Most of the food that you eat is horrible for you and for the world as a whole.

Unless we change what we choose to put in our body, these big food and big chemical companies will continue, with the support of law makers, to completely alter what we know as food. They lie and they collude and they misrepresent and anyone who knows me but does not believe that, just simply cannot care about me or the struggle I have gone through in returning from the brink of death. You make me shake my head in utter frustration and disgust.