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Post by Mumsey on Dec 18, 2019 6:57:49 GMT -5
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Dec 18, 2019 11:22:52 GMT -5
I tend to get upset if not angry when I read these kinds of articles, even though I'm certainly not unaware of the practice. If there's one issue that's the most offensive, and disturbing, it's the removal of individual decision making of choice and allowing it to vest in science in terms of what's best for "food".
It's a good reminder though that folks here have chosen our own food and lifestyles, that these are OUR choices, and that free will needs to continue to exist in individual choices.
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Post by martywny on Dec 18, 2019 14:42:21 GMT -5
free will needs to continue to exist in individual choices Unfortunately we, the people have created a monster. Over the years, our buying habits have forced food "manufacturers" into producing food in a manner much like a factory assembly line. We want to go into a supermarket and buy everything on our list instead of waiting for 'tomato season' or 'corn season' to come back around. Your fresh apples in the Spring have been sitting in a controlled atmosphere room filled with nitrogen for the last four months waiting their turn to go to market. Some of this is good, some of this is bad, but you change your environment by changing the way you spend your dollars and nobody does it alone, we must do it in numbers.
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Post by Mumsey on Dec 19, 2019 5:11:04 GMT -5
Yes, an example is refusing to buy ANY tomato from the store!
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Dec 19, 2019 13:34:28 GMT -5
That article made me sick to read it but ya have to read them to be in the know of what is happening. It's a good reminder though that folks here have chosen our own food and lifestyles, that these are OUR choices, and that free will needs to continue to exist in individual choices. Amen!
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Dec 19, 2019 13:56:29 GMT -5
martywny raised good issues. Consumers, willingly or unconsciously, have driven markets, but they/we in turn have often been driven by advertising, which has become much more aggressive in a different direction: medicine, and medication. Big Pharma has been pushing relentlessly to increase sales of specific medicines. The proliferation of cars and truck commercials has been superceded by ads for drugs (and sometimes junk foods.)
I can understand why doctors may feel pressured to satisfy the contemporary need of immediate satisfaction. The Stones' Mother's Little Helper was I thought such a directed criticism of pill popping, even if it referred only to one specific drug.
I think that same ad bombardment has created a consumer society driven to satisfy created perceptions, and succumbing to those in turns creates people w/poor thinking capacity, who think that sitting around eating processed food products with questionable nutrition is a method of being happy, of being part of the crowd, or whatever.
Have you ever counted the numbers of cereals, with processed ingredients and preservatives, in the breakfast aisles at stores? Or the number of variations of processed crackers, popcorn or chips? Or pop? Or the number of aisles of produce and real food vs. the number of aisles of processed ingredients purporting to be food?
(Of course, we all know that dark chocolate is a real food and indulgence is healthy.)
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Post by desertwoman on Dec 19, 2019 21:39:14 GMT -5
We don't have TV cable hook up so I miss all the ads but on the rare occasion I have seen a TV screen on, I am astounded by all the Pharma ads. Of course, we all know that dark chocolate is a real food Of course!
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Post by Mumsey on Dec 21, 2019 4:52:48 GMT -5
We don't have cable either, just an antenna in the upstairs to watch local news. Between the drug ads and political ads, I don't know which is worse!
And what about drumming up business for visits to dr for medical/health conditions, have you seen the articles that pop up here and there on media that say "if you have this happening, then this is what you have".... I wonder how many people race to the dr after reading these things. And who really is writing/posting them.....They are written in such a way as to alarm a person. I never pay any attention to them.
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GMO crops
Dec 21, 2019 5:48:04 GMT -5
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Post by reuben on Dec 21, 2019 5:48:04 GMT -5
We don't have cable either, just an antenna in the upstairs to watch local news. Between the drug ads and political ads, I don't know which is worse! I have the same setup, but still see the drug ads. All of them have happy, smiling people on beaches, at a picnic, hiking next to waterfalls, and beautiful sunsets. Who needs drugs when you have a life like that? I don't watch much TV at all, usually just some sports - if I can pull it on for free.
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Post by Mumsey on Dec 24, 2019 4:31:29 GMT -5
If you're happy and you know it, it's your drugs!
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