Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Help Us End Ignorance!



Hey...so I'm getting up on my soap box for a moment...I took this picture today at Safeway...look at the sponsor brands...these brands view food as a commodity, to be sold for profit as a good and service, not as a basic human need...out is a privilege, they will say, that or food is grown for is and conveniently put in the store to buy....and there is definitely truth in that, but the food system is all fucked up guys, we can no longer save and plant our own seed then sell the crop , we have to register the seeds and prices are so ridiculous only mega companies can afford it, making food selection and choice if production, especially in our integrated social system actually quite small (its not like we're all living in small villages with a barter system, even if you live in a rural area of the US, you are still intrinsically connected to the rest if the nation and world, especially politically and economically) ...the irony is that these companies make a shit ton of profit on selling these food products (its one of the most profitable/lucrative/powerful businesses out there - agribusiness and food manufacturing...everyone needs to eat!) and they produce some of the cheapest food you can buy. Not to mention that people who are eating this food on the regular have been conditioned into thinking it's good for them and most likely do not buy organic foods that are also more expensive (this is not meant to be offensive, if you have an emotional response, look into it, thoroughly). So basically, these companies are telling the least informed and least economically viable food consumers to spend more of their hard earned money on cheep food products (that food corps will make a giant profit off of) and give it away for free to people who have no food or money. I understand that some food is better than no food, and I'm all about charitable acts, but why aren't these incredibly profitable corporations just giving away their cheap food themselves? ..The question is rhetorical, we all know why, $$$$$$...to the corporation it is more important that feeding starving people (the corporation= legal person, not necessarily the people working for the corporation, as confusing as that is)....so why not sponsor an activity that will encourage people to buy their food and then give it away...genius! ........ look below the surface, consciously connect the dots... by the way.. these are the entities that poured money into "no on I-92" in Oregon in November, 2014.

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