Do you think corporate interests are forcing Americans to eat crappier food than Europeans and others?
American food is often full of high-fructose corn syrup instead of things like cane sugar. Unless you pay top-dollar for “organic” meat, your meats will often be full of growth hormones and other chemicals.
Check out this photo from an average food market in Barcelona, Spain:
http://www.buyorganic.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/Fruit_Stall_in_Barcelona_Market.jpg
Most supermarkets in the US can’t compete with that. However, it’s not really their fault. The problem is, the American consumer has been conditioned through marketing and the media that only a very narrow variety and type of foods are “good.”
There are Americans who freak out at the idea of eating delicious meats like goat or venison. That’s just sad. But those meats don’t have a gigantic lobbying effort behind them.
Have big agri-business corporations damaged the quality of America’s food?
Yes, I believe you are correct. Because most supermarkets don’t carry free range organic meats and veggies and fruit. High Fructose corn syrup is poison. It’s full of mercury and toxins and is a carcinagen. Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils are poison too, they don’t leave your body and have been directly linked to cancer. Both of these are in processed foods. And, these same corporate food interests and pesticide corporations have been trying to get into Europe but have failed because the European people are smart enough and don’t want them in their countries. And, their representatives don’t want it either.
I personally prefer organic grass fed free range beef from New Zealand. Man is that good. Goat is good too. Venison is a bit too game tasting for me. I love Duck though…Yum.
I only buy Organic whenever possible.
The thing is that Americans don’t even know what the food industry does to their food before it gets to their plate. They are clueless. They think they aren’t being forced to do this but that just proves they aren’t paying attention.
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