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Default Poison In The Food: How the Hungry Lion Eats Us

Sounds like you really need to down a couple of Big Macs, and a fist
full of Oreos.


donquijote1954 wrote:
> We all are victims of it, men and women, old and young alike.
> The"Hungry Lion" makes us eat what's most profitable for him. We enter
> the supermarket isles and we are overwhelmed by unnecessary products,
> laced with unnecessary ingredients. And hydrogenated oils is just the
> beginning...
>
> Well, we remain hopeful we can tame the beast and make him eat banana,
> just as the good vegetarian lions should.
>
> First the poison food, then the story of the Hungry Lion, and finally a
> solution...
>
> Poison In The Food: Hydrogenated Oils
>
> The truth about hydrogenated oils and our nation's disease epidemics
>
> I'm about to share with you a true story about how the world's
> population is being poisoned by an ingredient that is intentionally
> added to our food supply. I'm going to share with you details of how
> the World Health Organization implored nations to outlaw this
> ingredient in 1977, but the food companies continued to lobby for
> keeping the ingredient legal because it was convenient for them and
> boosted their profits, never mind that it was wreaking havoc on the
> health of consumers. What kind of havoc? - Cancer, heart disease,
> lowbirth- weight infants, malformed brains and nervous systems in
> fetuses and infants, infertility in men and women, breast cancer,
> prostate cancer, weight gain, type 2 diabetes, rotting teeth and gums.
> I'm going to name a lot more right here in this program.
>
> I'm talking about hydrogenated oils. Hydrogenated oils are poisons, in
> the sense that they were never intended for human consumption. They
> don't exist in nature. They're not found in any natural, raw,
> unprocessed foods at all. In fact, there is no nutritional requirement
> whatsoever in the human body for hydrogenated oils, or for trans-fatty
> acids which are produced as a side effect of the hydrogenation process.
> But what's really amazing about this story is not all the damage that
> this ingredient causes, nor all of the diseases that it has promoted,
> nor the direct correlation between the skyrocketing rates of diseases
> and the increasing consumption of foods containing these hydrogenated
> oils. The real story here is about how our lawmakers and our so-called
> "health leaders" have refused to outlaw this ingredient, even though
> they are fully aware of the dangers that it poses to human health.
> There has been no real attempt out there to protect consumers from this
> toxic, even deadly, ingredient. As usual, it's all about big business.
> The government organizations out there that are supposed to be
> protecting consumers have once again ended up protecting the big food
> giants. Those huge manufacturing companies that have big lobbies in
> Washington seem to run everything that happens there these days. This
> ingredient remains legal, even while it is killing people in the United
> States and all around the world.
>
> ***
>
> I bet you know a character like this lion...
>
> THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
> Once upon a time, in the deep jungle, lived a Lion and a Monkey... One
> day the Monkey, tired of the Lion always taking the LION'S SHARE, and
> seeing that such injustice represented a danger to all, demanded
> JUSTICE... The Lion, yawning and stretching, said, "You would have to
> have paws and sharp teeth..." Then the Monkey, who was very clever,
> devised a plan: He would go to the costume store, and look like a
> lion...
>
> When the HUNGRY LION saw him, noticing that the new lion wasn't a match
> for him, and fearing COMPETITION, killed him on the spot --before the
> indifferent look of the little animals of the jungle... And that's how
> the Law of the Jungle was re-established one more time... (NOTE: Other
> monkeys survived him...)
>
> ***
>
> But to tell you the truth, this monkey wasn't very clever in dressing
> like a lion. The real smart monkey knows better and would do this...
>
> (Based on the slogan:
> MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR?
> "Make love, not war," was not just a protest against the indifference
> and lack of humaneness in Vietnam; it was also a positive statement
> that love between parent and child, teacher and pupil, fiance and
> fiancee, and husband and wife is an activity we should try to pursue in
> the house when work is not necessary. It is the one real source of
> truth, beauty, and salvation in a community where deceit, corruption,
> and impersonality seem to be rampant. -Jerome Kagan)
>
> The smart monkey shows his cleverness...
>
> And what better way to make love than to give the banana to the roaring
> lion? The monkey knows that the lion is more powerful than him, and
> knows he better use his own weapons, so he decides to be funny, that
> being his natural gift. The story goes like this: The lion roars:
> "Monkey, I'm made to eat meat, so you better come down right
> now." And the monkey replies very cool: "Mighty King, that's
> doubtful as the Bible says you were vegetarian, so you can eat my
> banana..." (T-shirts with the slogan "You Can Eat My Banana"
> available now!)
>
> http://cafepress.com/peacebanana
>
> ***
>
> This is what we propose...
>
> "Junk food should have a warning label (just like cigarettes),
> particularly the one destined to children, and also be taxed to
> subsidize healthy alternatives."
>
> WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
> http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote
>
> COMING OUT OF THE JUNGLE
> http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote1
>
> THE BANANA REVOLUTION
> http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote40