Why is it that the most expensive foods are those that are best for you. I see a widening disparity between the types of foods which are offered and available to those of greater economic means, as opposed to low income families.
I can readily buy the foods that I need, but it seems some of the healhiest foods are the most expensive and therefore beyond the budgets of most families.This is aside from our economic crisis. I'm referring to the conditions which exist now and before the economic collapse.
I go into a grocery store and it appalls me to see what lower economic families tend to put in grocery carts when they shop. Most foods are heavily laden with fats, carbs and sweets. It used to be a running joke that people in a certain area of our city could live on potato chips and Pepsi. naturally this stereotype is prevalent because many low income people tend to buy these sugary, carb and fat laden products, since they're filling and they cost less; however, in most cases they're the worst foods that you could possibly utilize for nutritional needs of your body.
With childhood obesity running rampant, I see it as a generation problem. Often obese children will have obese parents. Then those kids will eventually pass on those bad habits to their children and so the cycle continues.
The food industry is in large part responsible for some of this as their pricing often puts nutritional foods beyond the economic range of lower income families, thus they buy filling as opposed to the more nutritional foods.
With this in mind, if more expensive foods were made available, we would still have to change eating habits, which in some cases have been nurtured over several generations. Entire cultures can be predisposed to bad eating habits-eating foods heavy in fat, carbs and sugar.
I'm a diabetic. If I want a diabetic product, it usually cost a great deal more than a like product for non-diabetics. So I usually buy the regular product and then try and limit the amount of that product that I eat.
If I buy foods heavy in fat, carbs and sugar, I do have the choice to spread their consumption out and the frequency with which I consume them. Lower income families don't have this luxury. They have to fill bellies and what they buy is often consumed on a regular basis.
Chips don't stay in the cupboard where they are eaten at intervals. Ice cream is consumed fairly quickly, candy is abundant, kool-Aid, which requires lots of sugar and sugary sodas are everywhere and consumed on a daily basis. These foods are cheap and filling, but they do nothing for our nutritional needs.
So, is the food industry complicit in bad diets? You bet they are.
Prostitution Obsession
Now, I hear that the cops throughout the US are attempting to infiltrate Craigs List Postings to deliberately snare those individuals who arrange sexual hook ups in exchange for cash. This is yet another ridiculous waste of time and efforts and in my mind a greater perversion and misuse of public funds than the act of Prostitution.
We all know that the seeming act of prostitution is as old as Society and it will continue.Yet based upon a conditioned morality which politicians have fostered, drawn form the age old religious doctrine condemning prostitution and a public which has been long duped into believing that "prostitution somehow deteriorates the family", we yet continue in our quest to interfere with the choices of some.
The underlying cause behind Prostitution definitely has its roots in biblical and therefore religious parable. We blindly accept this excuse and add any additional societal condemnation to further pursue this act. It seems somewhat hypocritical to accept the ageless role of religion in this condemnation when religion has no business in the conduct of secular government.
Yet, we know all about his duplicity when it comes to politicians and public sentiment. They throw this notion under the bus and move forward in the knowledge that the enforcement of Prostitution laws can be furthered based around public dislike alone. Funny, outside of male politicians, when was the last time you heard a male citizen getting all fired up over pornography and prostitution?
Prosecution often takes the form of persecution in our society, and this is what exactly is happening with the cops and their attempts to infiltrate Craigs List. That organization should fight all attempts by the government or any judicial agency to interfere with a the rights of grown folks.It's simply none of their business. We need to stop legislating morality for others and deal with the problems at hand in this country, of which there are many.
Republican Behavior-An Elephant Mired in "Muck"
Sine the election of Barack Obama, the Republican party seems to have become encumbered under the weight of their own obsession to hinder and obstruct the plans of our new President.
They offer no substantive ideas or alternate theories outside of the ageless party rhetoric of cutting taxes, espouse that they have been left out on consultations by the president, which is ridiculous and furthermore an outright lie; then generally have the headset of obstructing a large part of his agenda in the hopes that his policies fail and that they will be in a good position to recapture lost offices in the 2010 elections.
Do they really believe that the memory of the American people is that short, that after 8 years of a regime which flaunted the law. presided over an economic policy which has brought the country and the world to a point of disaster and left the new President to recover a tainted image around the world-do they honestly believe that the American people are going to put them back in office that soon?
I have problems with many views of the right-wing base and the Republican party, which are traditionally the rabble-rousers. Yes, I would like them to hide under a rock and only show their faces in time to pay taxes, but indeed, keep their opinions and therefore their shortsighted and parochial opinions to themselves. Hell,I wouldn't care if they formed a new union of states. they do nothing but hinder progress under the cloak of religious zealotry and moralistic chicanery, inbred with distortions.
The Right wing of the GOP which seems to speak for the entire party is pure hell for our country. They are selfish at every avenue of change, save that which deregulates and benefits the rich. Where is their rock to crawl under? They are a persistent threat to changing the status quo. Let them linger in the dark for a long time. Who cares? They're of no use to progressive minds in this country.
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