I've been learning about food additives, the business of high fructose corn syrup. Its amazing to me that all this 'bullshit' is in our foods… and the FDA approves?
I can remember when Genetic Engineering was an issue (ethical or health issue) brought to our attention by the church. There was so much uproar about genetic alteration of food back then 'They're changing our apples and oranges!' Why wasn't anyone outraged about the amount of food additives?
They put chemical in baby food, that’s known to 'stunt growth'! I can't think of anything more outraging.
All the chemicals in proceeded food, why is there so little outrage about this?
Short Answer: People are outraged when the media tells them to be outraged. We turn to the news channel to educate us about the world, forgetting that they are paid to entertain us, tantalize us with ill-researched facts, and prey on our
gullibility and our attention spans; collecting as many advertising dollars as their bank accounts will hold.
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You certainly do raise some importantt issues. It is true that people are more than happy in todays age to apathetically yawn in the face of what ought to be a truly unfortunate calamity. But it appears as though the attitude seems to funnel into one of two or three piles ...
#1 "This problem doesn't really affect me too much, it's not like I need to be rushed to the hospital every time I eat some deliciouse genetically enhanced snack. I don't care about how it might supposedly make me sick later because it makes me satisfied and comfortable now. I'm not going to waste my time trying to change something that isn't really even a problem in the first place."
Then there is 'apathetic human' number two (the one I tend to not appreciate the most)...
#2 " I think your right and that the food & drug administration does care about engineering profit for their business share holders, more than my health and well being. It does bother me that they bombard their animals with hormones and drugs, then our children start to get pushed physically into puberty at the age of 7 or 9 years old, when mentally their still children. I don't like being tired and hungry and uninspired almost all the time and I realize that it is what I am eating that is causing me to feel this way BUT... what can I do. I'm just a single person with barely enough money to keep my rent up to date. There isn't anything I could do in a million years that would change this situation in any kind of relavent way, so why bother wasting my time trying. As long as I get my paycheck every two weeks and a beer or two on the weekend that's all I care about."
Then there would be the remaining people of inaction...
#3 "I believe what your telling me, and I really do want to do something to try and stop this poisoning of our population and livestock.But I work seven days a week; Puttin time in at the job, and trying to keep my apartment from falling apart. I just don't have the time or the energy to learn about such a complicated issue as food additives and where they come from, who makes them and why? Let alone to take that knowledge and do something with it. I'm sorry. I really am but I just can't get caught up in this food revolution your suggesting."
What do you think might work to shake these people out of apathy? Is there a way perhaps that this collective dismissal might be overcome by some strategic approach of sorts?
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