Grocers Claim Cheap Food is Good Food
Unfortunately, that big old lie causes heart attacks.
Cheap food is harmful, but people gorge on it anyway because it delivers short-lived comfort. They all-too-often get sick and eventually end up in the hospital, and die before their time.
End of story, your story if you only eat cheap food… that’s fact.
You get what you pay for is still a fact too.
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Consumers have been conditioned by corporations over many decades to feel like they can cheat life, and that what they do or eat won’t have consequences. Reality says otherwise…
Cheap food kills people. Quality food nourishes.
Don’t make it any more complicated.
Good food is the eternal secret to living happier and longer.
For clarity, I’m not referring to FAST FOOD as the bad food factor here, although it is full of sugar, salt, and fat–the trifecta of killer ingredients that feeds heart attacks, strokes and cancer.
I’m spotlighting something worse and comparing apples to apples and chickens to chickens. The difference between good and bad food in this article is about chemical fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, and all the “…cides” that define bad food and cause terminal illnesses.
The highest quality food you can find today is NOT sold by big box grocers and instead comes directly from a farm… but not just any farmer. We all have a choice as to whether we buy food from a smart farmer who is concerned about our health, or from a conventional factory farmer who’s only focus is on growing cheap food to generate as much revenue and profit as possible.
For context, and contrary to popular belief, many factory farmers are far from being poor and have considerable assets, including property. Most do fine economically and also have more cash than they dare admit. Like all of us though, they complain too, but when was the last time you saw a chemical farmer do something altruistic that improved consumer health and the food system? It’s rare, because why fix it if it ain’t broke… for you?
Just so you know; The main reason chemical farmers (ChemFarms) are jumping on the REGENERATIVE wagon is because they were promised it would save them money on fertiliser. Most farmers are only doing it for greater profit. The climate benefit is just a happy coincidence. I’m not complaining however, and will take it if it means no chemicals in non-GMO corn and more stable climate. Real pioneers though, have been practicing permaculture and regenerative methods for decades, so give credit where it’s due.
Statistically, MOST farmers, 95% in America spray chemicals on their crops, which essentially is like hooking food consumers up to a perpetual pesticide drip. Many chemical farmers are happy with this status quo–especially the generous subsidies. Governments carefully design and leverage funding to keep farmers obedient and under control. Many farmers however, are so tired and whittled down emotionally by the constant policy pressure they have no fight left. Farmers often reluctantly comply instead of trying to sell their property, or in desperation walk away to change their lives completely. There’s also a third unspoken option, all-too-often consecrated behind the barn overlooking a final sunset.
ChemFarmers sprayed and tilled their hope into the dirt long ago.
The headline, “Bad Farmers Make a Killing Selling Cheap Chemical Food” doesn’t appear in mainstream news because it implicates large farming corporations and government partnerships, both allies of news companies that sell billions in advertising to sell guess what… cheap food. BTW, according to Regenerative Food Systems Investment News; ChemFarm bankruptcies in America have almost doubled since last year.
Farmers are chronically distressed by a whirlwind of escalating mental health issues that to them are even more serious than spraying chemicals. American farmers self harm at an alarming rate three and a half times greater than the general population. It’s an epic social failure of engineered human suffering grown on cheap food in depleted soil. Ironically, ChemFarmers slowly poison themselves just by working in their own fields. The highly respected teddy-bear regen farmer Gabe Brown who co-stars in the Kiss the Ground social documentary with Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern, recently announced he has ALS. If we did that with any other workforce there’d be public outrage, but with Gabe, barely a blip.
Governments made chemical farmers expendable.
As immense as this tragedy is however, the conversation is no longer just about farmers.
The heartbreak is equally about the health of food consumers. People unfortunately believe the disinformation that controlling governments, greedy corporations and bad farmers collectively spoon-feed society about agricultural chemicals like glyphosate–a poison sprayed daily by the ton on cheap food and reported by scientists to be carcinogenic and unsafe for human consumption.
Consumers are dying at unprecedented rates from cheap food grown by bad farmers – *Dr. V. Boombatz
Harsh when you see it like that isn’t it?
The truth can be brutal…
(*NOT a real doctor, but we figured if BIG BOX GROCERS pretend to have real food, we can pretend to have a real doctor. The consumers dying part, is unfortunately… real.)
Farmers today have a choice, and most choose cheap food because it delivers high profit.
Unfortunately, they do it at the health and expense of food consumers. It’s partially why OLD MacDonald… HAD a Farm – R.I.P.
Today, YOUNG MacDonald HAS a farm that is socially and climate responsible because modern farmers are often better educated and regard technology as second nature… Ai, Ai, O
WOMEN also play major roles on THEIR farms. Check out the vid to see how they blend fresh perspectives and innovative correlations with farming, food and health in LOCAL SHORT FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS.
Society has sympathy for and supports farmers who make an effort to change, but trust is wavering for farms that choose to grow bad food even though scientists have conclusively proven it causes cancer, heart disease, and other chronic and terminal illnesses.
Consumers are beginning to see ChemFarmers as front-line emissaries for governments and as foot soldiers for large corporations whose only goal is the highest possible profit. Bad farmers learned over the years how to remain VISIBLY INVISBLE at big box grocers and Farmers Markets.
Hiding in plain site is blatant at Farmers Markets where bad farmers wedge themselves between good farmers and virtue signal through close physical association implying that they also grow safe healthy food. The grift on busy and trusting consumers is that they can buy the exact same bad cheap food with pesticides at their local grocer for less than half the price they pay at Farmers Markets.
Consumers get wrapped up in outdoor excitement and grossly overpay.
Some Farmers Market directors have no mandate nor do they feel personal moral responsibility to educate consumers. Even if market managers wanted, and some do, they legally can’t get politically involved because of government subsidies.
It’s a fine-print Catch-22. When you accept funding from the government you are legally contracted to do and say what they want you to do and say, and they enforce it aggressively. They don’t allow you to criticize the bad work of farmers they also support, which is a very effective gag. I’ve been on the receiving end of their brutal attacks. I won the battle in front of a judge and also in the court of public opinion online, but it cost me a fortune, and my forty-year marriage.
You have to ask yourself, do you want to be RIGHT, or EFFECTIVE and plan accordingly. Being right is often a selfish position. More than two decades ago I chose being effective and changed forever how one of the largest corrupt organisations in the world does business.
Morally, it was worth the fortune it cost me personally to expose them, but if you can’t carry the load emotionally or financially, think twice. Be forewarned too that it’s dangerous to pretend to be an activist when things heat up, because real activists will go after you for stealing their thunder and making their work harder. They don’t want or need help from an armchair QB. You absolutely don’t want paid provocateurs stalking you online or IRL because they don’t abide by the law. Plus, pro activists recognise immediately when you’re leveraging public sentiment just to drive sales, and will call you out if it is to their benefit.
Cheap ChemFarm Food often SELLS OUT late in the day at Farmers Markets at inflated prices. To an uninformed consumer who is late and rushing, it looks like a great deal compared to the expensive healthy food at the organic booth across the aisle. It is however a NO-win customer conundrum to choose between a side of FRESH pesticides and herbicides, or the STALE carcinogens at the grocer… except you pay twice as much for the exact same bad food at a Farmers Market. WTRF? 2X?!! …yep, 2x easily.
It leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you overpay… you lose trust in the food and market.
Bad farmers appropriate the hard work of good farmers and take advantage of an uninformed and hungry public.
The following scenario plays out regularly at Farmers Markets; Chemical farmers set up booths alongside good farmers and charge a WHOPPING $8 for a pint of blueberries or strawberries sprayed with pesticides. It’s just $2 less than the healthy natural organic biodynamic berries priced at $10. Because the price is so close, it fools many customers into thinking the quality of the berries is also similar.
For context, when you shop at a LOCAL GROCER, organic blueberries, because of the extra labour are often TWICE the cost of chemically sprayed berries and more if it’s grown using an even harder-to-manage alternative process like regenerative or biodynamic. Food grown using alternative agriculture, the really good, highest quality produce, sometimes costs 200% more because it takes more work to grow–often two or three times the effort.
A 25% reduction is not justified or fair, but it’s an effective sales strategy.
Bad Farmers Learned Long Ago How to Quietly Slip Into The Good Farmer Parade…
ChemFarms know how to LEVERAGE ORGANIC MOMENTUM, especially at Farmers Markets, and how to do it at the expense of trusting consumers.
It’s a hustle and major WIN for brazen ChemFarms when a pint of ChemFarm blueberries or strawberries found at a large LOCAL GROCER only two blocks away sells for just $2.99, which is almost two-thirds less than the exact same sprayed berries at the Farmers Market that sell for $8. It gives ChemFarms an unfair advantage over good farmers, and especially consumers.
Is there a logical solution? Sure. Applying mandatory “ChemFood” warning labels like we do for tobacco and alcohol would help. Unfortunately, just like it happens in fisheries, it would be an imposing, expensive, and long battle against big corps that prefer consumer confusion because it works in their favour. Logistically, Farmers Markets could do it, but they won’t because of government control. If bad farmers were forced to put ChemFarm Stickers on their products or a sign on their booth, it would be much harder to charge such egregious prices for bad food.
The only way to stop the hustle and appropriation is through education.
The best teacher is a good farmer who grows naturally nutritious alternative food using organic, regenerative, or permaculture processes et al. When a Farmers Market also receives government subsidies like many do through sponsorship support, they can’t protect consumers by SHOWCASING good farmers against a BACKDROP of bad farmers for comparison. Governments won’t allow it. They can’t offer juxtapositions for contrast like I’m doing. Politicians readily supported cheap over high quality because unhealthy food is a larger tax base.
It used to be that simple.
However, the balance recently shifted, especially in a desperate and chronically unhealthy America when terminal health issues pushed costs beyond the economic tipping point. Governments everywhere are finally integrating into spreadsheets the OVERALL COST TO HEAL including hospice expenditures of people given a death sentence by consuming bad food.
As a result, commercial factory farmers are losing society’s sympathy. A growing number of consumers feel that ChemFarms brought it on themselves. Although it’s partially true, it’s important to remember that farmers have mitigating circumstances and often feel trapped. Regardless of blame, all farmers today are being funneled along a social media swale and forced into identifying as GOOD or BAD.
If farmers won’t self-identify, consumers will do it for them, and are already starting to shun bad food and instead develop relationships with good farmers they trust.
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Health and longevity are directly proportional to your food source and farmer.
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PostScript – FOOD LOVERS; Each time you buy and eat food sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, you vote for and support a chemical farmer who literally… pushes drugs onto your plate. Cheap food is an addiction, designed and perpetuated by massive corporate industrial farms that not only feedlot cattle, they also FEEDLOT HUMANS through BIG BOX GROCERS–yeah, you read it right… moo. What did you think was happening when the little piggy went to market?
Feedlots have society hooked—line and sinker.
It’s hard to break a ChemFood addiction cold turkey. Like any drug, you first have to emotionally position yourself to wean off of bad food. Addictions to bad food are in your head and called behavioral. You’re not biologically or physically hooked on pesticides, at least not substantially that mainstream scientists report, but you are HARDWIRED into the LOW PRICE. Cheap food is a tough Jones through the lens of your bank account.
We created a simple, immersive program to address this relatively new, and increasingly common food challenge. We can help you kick the chemical consumption habit and gravitate to food that is high quality, natural, and healthy, and do it in a way that is AFFORDABLE for your budget!
Our strategy is not about LOSING WEIGHT, but when you eat healthy… losing weight can be a very pleasant side effect for some people!
Our ChemFood COLD TURKEY KICK-BAD-FOOD RECIPE is designed to quickly move anyone, including YOUR FAMILY away from chemical food and towards healthy eating. It’s fast, easy, fun, and very affordable when you consider and amortize all the benefits for your long term health and happiness.
One of the main ingredients in a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE RECIPE is a trusted farmer on your food team who has earth under their nails and a bushel of insider’s knowledge under their hat to share. Another important ingredient is to know how to slowly amalgamate healthy food into your menu without breaking the bank.
Having a farmer as a friend is the secret ingredient to a healthier and longer life.
Young MacDonald
Toddler Farmer
ponders
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If we’re hardcoded to be hooked on eating… (apparently we all need a food fix three times a day) 😉 why not make it healthy, chemical-free, and clean?
Exactly…
Why Not?
What’s a cow say?
Moo Moo here
BTW, a rumour is circulating that we require a blood and urine test before you start and throughout the COLD TURKEY program. Relax… it’s just a rumour started by this cute little farmer trying to be funny, and to remind you that you are your own food control board. We don’t monitor anyone. All we do is help you choose the healthy fork in the food path so you and your family can go on life’s merry way happily ever after.
FARMERS: We also developed a WORKSHOP for YOU. It’s designed to help farmers create a simple strategy to introduce LOCAL food consumers to your world where you can show them why naturally grown high quality food is a healthier choice. Sharing knowledge face to face increases visibility, credibility, and trust, and creates loyal communities. Our easy self-perpetuating formula automates the entire process from seed to harvest.
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… Bee well, Maurice
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