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Food toxicity

Every time I step in a supermarket I remind myself how dumb is the average consumer and how poor attention people pay to their alimentary shop. I have been talking over this subject for several times but I guess I cant get enough. Yet I am still in search of a safe way out of this sick dietary system that reigned from the ’80 up to nowadays and will probably last for another 10 or 20 years. So why is it sick? It is sick because around 70 to 90 percent of the food you consume daily contains various species of unhealthy preservatives, colorings, artificial flavorings, thickeners, artificial sweeteners and thousands of others chemical compounds and food additives. The average consumer, but better, the average person, is generally attentive only to the product’s name, brand, design or its commercial campaign and for least but not for last, the price, usually stopping at what he can read in the boxes front cover. The smart consumer has an extra gear as he will turn the box around, will read the nutritional facts table, the ingredients and he will know exactly what he is buying. Seems obvious but i shall repeat, in order to understand what a certain food is made of, you must know its ingredients, thus consequently comprehend if there are any suspicious additives in the product. Secondly, but not in second order of importance is to read the nutritional table, in order to understand whether the product fit in your personal diet or not. At the moment, these 2 fundamental instructions are our only savior, at least until there will be mandatory laws that keep the industries binded of writing nutritional and ingredients informational on the label of every pre packed food. Of course corruption is constantly present and there are still hundreds of dishonest industries packing products containing non mentioned illegal ingredients usually considered not safe. These industries would deserve to be burnt and anyone who has intentionally played around with public health executed in loco. Let alone these unethical happenings, I slowly realized that even though we have a 100% natural product, it may be already contaminated by toxic shit: for instance, how about a nice fresh egg, which you would probably stake your right hand that it does not contain any food additive, as it obviously just came out from the chicken’s ass! So it must be natural you would say!!. But you’re wrong again! Today, in the majority of the industries chickens are kept in inadequate cages that barely fit for them, left without any option of movement growing up against nature, but this is nothing if you think that their food is specially made with the worst kind of chemical shit available, all just to make them grow fast&fat. So here is the sick chain explained: old animals kept in captivity with their guts full of chemical shit give birth to new animals who are already contaminated since the day they are born, then they are fed with even more shit so they can serve you sure a 100% fresh milk or eggs, but guess what, nobody tells you that the commercial eggs contain more than 10 types of antibiotics and other residual chemical shit, besides having unbalanced quantities of vitamins and fatty acids. Indeed, no matter how careful you are in choosing your food and no matter how natural it may appear, you’re still eating shit. Of course still less shit than the average person who chooses his aliments randomly or merely basing his ideas on how good they taste. By the way, is there a way out? Find out by yourself, but as far as i know a temporary solution lies in the organic food. Organic food is for a matter of facts far better as it’s produced in industries that follow very rigid standards of quality and strict regulations in order to obtain an organic certification. The only failure is the price, which indeed stands from 2 up to 4 times higher than non-organic. One last thing, unfortunately the problem of unhealthy ingredients is not only concerning human food, but you can easily find them among many beauty products…