This Article Was Banned

I write health articles for a local newspaper and about once per year one of my articles gets rejected because it is loaded with controversy. The most recent rejected article is listed below.

The truth of the matter is that a large chunk of our economy is based on selling products that make people sick or selling useless medications/surgeries to the people when they become sick.

With so much of our economy based on sickness it is no surprise that the truth about health irritates a large part of the business community, both locally and across the country.

The last article that actually made it into the newspaper documented medically proven cures for learning disorders. (listed by Dr. Mark Hyman in his new book titled The Ultra Mind Solution) One local doctor in Cornwall called and complained to the newspaper that someone like myself should never be able to list such information in an article. Just another example of how some of our local doctors do not want their patients curing their disease. I say "too bad" and let the truth flow.

The censored article is below. Enjoy the day.

How Bad Food Is Bankrupting Our Nation

Bad food today is bankrupting our nation and we as citizens are always left to pick up the tab. Large unhealthy corporations lobby hard to force governments to pass laws, which continually place us between the cross hairs. To be shot with a gun is one thing but when the government forces you to pay for the gun, the bullets and the wage of the person shooting you........it redefines the word "unfair".

Unhealthy corporations are obsessed with the concept of “downloading”. The concept of “downloading” is the art of downloading the real costs of unhealthy products to regular people like you and me. It is done in a clever way, to a point where we do not even realize we are paying extra to help unhealthy companies post larger profits. This happens on such a large scale that it actually obscures reality. Our government plays a leading role in these “downloading” structures as they bow to special interest groups, who rarely have our best interests at heart.

To demonstrate what “downloading” means lets just start with something simple like why part-time student workers have a lower minimum wage than everyone else. That story starts with American greed and the main franchiser of McDonalds, Ray Kroc. He wanted to make sure the profits of fast food restaurants remained high so he approached the U.S. government to pass a law regarding lower wages for students. Voila, the true cost to produce/serve the food is downloaded to the students. A group of underpaid workers and it looks legal. Workers who serve liquor are paid even less using the same downloading tactics.

Most of us tip restaurant workers because they get paid less and have to make a living but the restaurant should be paying them a regular wage in the first place. Again, the public gets downloaded the cost of running the restaurant.

The wage minimums should be equal across the hoard. Our “tip” not only helps increase the profit of the restaurant but also helps unhealthy companies maintain lower prices on their menus so unhealthy foods are more affordable. Lower prices for crap food means a greater competitive advantage over healthy choices.

If restaurants had to pay all their workers regular wages what would be the real cost of the food that is killing our nation? Would the true cost of a burger and fry drive more people toward healthier choices? This is not even close to all that we are paying for.

Our government provides our tax dollars to farmers, in the form of subsidies, who produce the unhealthy corn syrup for the restaurant’s soft drinks and even the unhealthy canola or soy oils that are in the fryers, sauces and salad dressings. We pay again to give unhealthy products an artificially low price. Crap food is actually expensive to produce compared to an organic farmer tending their field but the government and greedy corporations team up to keep unhealthy products at a lower price, all at our expense.

Even big companies know the downloading described above is petty compared to where they really save. Unhealthy companies are rarely taken to task by the government for the other “real” costs of their crap products. What is the cost of the pollution, the obesity, the cancer, the heart disease, the learning disorders, the lost days of work, the premature death, the losses in productivity, the birth defects, the loss of dreams, the addictions, the crying, the medications, the surgeries, the fertility problems, the frustration, the poverty, the divorce and the crime? Study after study links unhealthy foods to all the above. Guess who pays for all that? We do.

Factor in the true costs of these products and a burger and fry may be $649. If that is indeed the true price, let it stand. The government has to stop keeping the cost of bad food artificially low.

Don’t count on the government or big business to keep you healthy. Vote with your dollars. Support healthy organic foods and hit unhealthy companies right in the wallet because that is the only way to get their attention.

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