What Do the People Know?

I don't recall if I've mentioned it before, but I happen to work in a large-chain supermarket. We sell mostly groceries and have a selection of other such general merchandise items.

Since the very recent opening of my eyes, I have become disgusted by the majority of the items we are allowed to sell (allowed because nine companies essentially own everything in your grocery store and mine). I see people purchasing soda, and poptarts, frozen dinners, and fresh steaks, asparagus and strawberries and I can't help but wonder if they would continue to spend their money on these things if they knew what was in there?

Asparatame in your soda that will eat holes in your brain, high-fructose corn syrup that creates sugar intolerances in your body, frozen dinners full of fake flavorings and MSG, fresh steaks that were fed corn and grain and antibiotics for all of its miserable life, asparagus from Peru, strawberries fresh so far out of season that they can't possibly be healthy and pesticide-free.

If they knew, would they change?

I am trying. I really am. We do have a few fresh organic vegetables, grown in America (because organic produce grown in other countries is not subject to the United States' organic laws), and locally grown and slaughtered, grass fed beef in the freezer. This is pretty much what I've been eating: apples, beef, and cauliflower. Some local eggs too, for good measure.

Since the switch to better food I am discovering my cravings for processed junk is insane. I am irritable and feel uncomfortably empty often. When I fill that craving with something processed, I feel better. Getting my HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) seems to "fix" my cravings.

Scary, isn't it? I find it frightening.

Luckily a downtown store sells locally grown organic produce and I feel I must stop in tomorrow just to see what I can find.

Keep up the good fight, start your own, or tell someone about what they are really putting in their body, you might just plant the seed that gets another person on their way out of the corporate-controlled food system.