What we are being sold today in the name of 'food', is not really food. Many of us know it but are in denial, postponing the realization! How long can we postpone it? If we do it long enough, it starts to become normalized for us!
Ultra-processed, adulterated food, it doesn't feel right to even call it 'food'!
As much as the word 'junk food' has become popular, so has the word 'Organic'. We live in a world where real food is marketed at an overwhelming price, tagged 'organic' and some garbage is being sold at an economic price. So people below poverty cannot even afford real food! Even vegetables are not safe to eat these days, it undergoes all sorts of chemical treatment. We have so many newfangled creations that humans in their innovative spirit, just wouldn't let nature be. Why do we even need a hybrid vegetable? Added nutrients? I do not know, I do not care! Nature has abundantly provided us with more than what we need for survival! Why are we avoiding real nutrition and taking supplements which contains the same thing? In its dead, processed form!
Why are we being sold convenience and pleasure? A very crucial question to critically reflect upon! What does pleasure do to us?
An alcoholic is much better than us because they atleast know they're addicted, but we are not even aware. Pleasure sold in any form is a danger, does not matter if it is alcohol or food loaded with MSG.
To fuel frustration, recognizing that many of us have started thinking, these businesses are sitting in air-conditioned rooms discussing creative ways to set traps. I was looking at a product online, that said "No (some stupid chemical)", when I looked at the ingredient list, though that particular chemical wasn't used, a list of other toxic chemicals were used. When you realize people are looking for good products, what do you do? You actually sell good products! Not pretend!
The name of a brand calls itself "good" but there is a disclaimer on the side in an ant-tiny font saying that it's just the name and that the product does not reflect the adjective!
Innovation and technology has a huge downside than it has benefits. Who determines what progress is? Our ancestors are often looked upon as a set of ignorant, uninformed people, but they knew that moon had water on its surface long before science announced it to the world. We aren't here to control, on the contrary we are here to release this sense of control. Scientific progression gives us the illusion of control but if the natural order is not conformed to, nature will react, let us start thinking before it is too late!
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