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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
First of all your in NO way referring to me, if so you are incorrect.
This response appears to be an in-artful attempt to justify an unhealthy diet.
But you are here reading the posts???
However — and it’s a big however — we’re a grossly overweight and unhealthy society with strongly developed cultural tendencies to celebrate the extremes, to submission and ourselves into premature diabetes and heart disease, to want what we want when we want it how we want it, selfish.
More important, we’re a society governed by corporations and agribusiness where we delude ourselves into believe in our individual rights and freedoms while the multinationals quietly strip us of our health and money, slipping us all manner of medical and psychiatric diagnoses with targeted pharmaceutical relief.
The goal may be for each of us to empower ourselves and take at least some control of our health back. If a person is fortunate enough to be able to do that through food choices, more power to them.
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Here's an interesting little story about big business and agribusiness as you mention.
About 3 years ago, I had a bottle of apple juice in the frig after the grandchildren left........I usually bought MOTTS but Price Chopper was all out of it, so I purchased the Price Chopper brand of apple juice. The little ones went through a few bottles of it during the visit.....this was the last bottle put in and only half used up.
I decided to have a drink. I wish I still had the photos but I've had a computer crash since then.......lost them. There was a HUGE CIRCULAR BLACK, GREY AND WHITE object in the middle of the Price Chopper apple juice....in the bottle. It was disgusting.
This had not been in there for a long time or left out at all.
To make a very long story short..........I began to do some research after calling Price Chopper and sending them the photos my husband later took of the MOLD or whatever it was in the apple juice bottle. It was huge.
They said that their apples come from droppings in CHINA....as it is more cost effective for them.............I had asked "Why don't you get them from New York State or neighboring Vermont" since Price Chopper's headquarters is in upstate N.Y.
Just last night on the news, they said that New York farmers have not bounced back since our sub tropical storm Irene of last year.....they kept showing the apple crops, etc. Go figure. Apples from China?????
I had done research and found out that the certain bacteria that grows on apple juice, apple cider, apple butter, etc.........is caused by a certain organism.........and usually comes from the droppings.
We know all about the baby formula, and other products that were questionable..............but who would think to suspect apple juice.
Which little kids live on. To this day, I can't get myself to drink it.