Better Living Through Chemicals?

Photo Credit: Christina Rausch

By now you have already figured out that I will not identify any company, product or person here by name (helps me to avoid problems).  I will however, give you hints from time to time that will help you guess who I am referring to.

Have you read the ingredients on the label of any of the products you have purchased from the store lately? Holy crap! There are more chemicals in most of the stuff we eat than in the chemistry classes that I had in college!  If you live to be 75 years old and decide you want a traditional funeral they won’t have to use embalming fluid, you are already preserved.

Recently, while reading the ingredients on a bottle of salad dressing I discovered chemicals I never even knew existed.  Why do we need so many chemicals in our food? Is it to preserve the food, is it to enhance the flavor or are they just used to keep chemical companies in business?  I would bet that if you had the time and researched each of these chemicals you would find out that most of them probably corrode steel.

Having realized this, I now read every label of everything that I buy.  Low and behold every product in my shopping basket has so many chemicals in them that they should include an MSDS sheet (look it up).  And we wonder why what we eat is killing us?  Or maybe it’s the complete opposite, maybe this is the reason for the increase in humankind’s lifespan.

It is simple really, we are being preserved!  I remember an old man that I used to work with who always said that: “what we eat is what will kill us”.  I used to shrug this off and laugh, however, I now believe he was right!  The old joke was: “If you put a Twinkie on a steel railing, 50 years from now the railing will rust away but the Twinkie will still be there”.

Is it any wonder that cancer is such a big risk?  We ingest so many chemicals that the risk must be huge.  Food labels should include a space to show the percentage of actual food in the product.  That is where the shock factor will come in as you realize that a large percentage of what we consume was brewed in a lab!

As I am now in the “final phase” of my life I have started to slow down and read these kinds of things. Luckily, I have survived long enough to become aware that this is going on.  Maybe this serves as “proof-positive” that we could reduce health costs with more natural foods.

So as many of us in this country continue look for lower priced products, especially food, keep this in mind; it is a lower price because it is not real food!

Talk to ya later!

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