The Corporate Coop of America Part 1

HAT can we do about the way things are going...I recall those words in a John Lennon song, and The way things are going...they're gonna crucify me. Well sometimes I feel we have all been crucified! In my mind we have all been hog-tied and now we are being spoon fed all the corporate crap we can ingest! What exactly am I talking about...well Ill try to explain my thoughts...

FASCISM-(according to Wikipedia-Fascists seek to organize a nation according to corporatist perspectives, values, and systems, including the political system and the economy)Does that sound familiar? I saw an episode of Law N Order..the character played by ICE-T is one of my favorites in the series...He came to arrest this guy and the guy said,
"You cant do this, its a free country." ICE-T grabbed the guy turned him around put the cuffs on him and replied,
"NO, its a Democracy and you're under arrest." That made me laugh...

BUT is it a democracy any more?
Not according to what the definition of a Fascists Government is, that sounds more like it...
This goes so far back in my life that I dont know if I can find the starting point, but I think it started with a bank...my mistrust of Corporate America and how it has not so quietly taken over our culture, our government, our lives!  we have all become slaves to , corporations & the products they give us we are droids....

From the food we eat to the drugs we take (to fix the problems created by the food we eat), corporations are giving us what they want us to have, (not what is better for human life) whatever they can make the quickest buck on, and they dont want us to question why, what, when, where, or how its manufactured...they just want us to buy it and shut up!

More of the speeches of Executive, and Judicial branches are about economics, government jobs are being filled by people with a background in business and economics-- Obama was recently criticized because he does not have enough business oriented people in his cabinet and on his staff and as his advisers...(corporations wish to remove all stumbling blocks so big business can control everything from the top on down)The recent oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico...
is a great example of how far our government has become a fascist one!! Why is the government looking to a corporate boardroom to solve this HUGE environmental catastrophe? YES they created it, (my question is WHY was offshore drilling ever an option, its a huge disaster waiting to happen as we saw). It became apparent right away BP Oil & its advisors and engineers didnt have a clue what to do about the undersea rig failure YET they built it. 

A corporation now can control the will of the President? Obama (rightly so) put a hold on off shore drilling (for 6 months) its obvious that BP (and the rest of the Big Oils) has no clue of what they should do in case of a spill a mile down!.

So the industry went to court to have the hold on drilling withdrawn…They say they have to get back to work, back to doing what? Destroying the environment, keeping us dependent on oil? The reports I heard of that platform and the one that exploded after that was a small number of workers on each 10 here 13 there, doesnt sound like many jobs were at stake compared to the HUGE risk to the WORLD's environment. A job drilling on LAND, makes more sense...at least we can control that if it blows.

But this series is not just about BP, its about Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, Walmart, Smith-Kline, Microsoft, Apple, AT&T, Sprint, IT’S about all of THEM. The corporate jungle that is overtaking us-
it's as out of control as KUDZU.

How Big Business Is Killing Americans
Products being sold for our ingestion are not much better than poison to our systems.  Fast food, high calorie soft drinks, snack foods are full of contaminates and fillers, sweetners, and fatty oils.  Take soft drinks for instance each bottle is full of high fructose corn syrup, now I dont care how many TV commercials the Corn Processors of America can afford to show, they wont convince me its GOOD FOR ME, it is NOT! It’s in nearly everything on the shelf...from Salad Dressing to Candy Bars, why is that? Because it’s CHEAP to process and buy that’s why---in those commercials they say it’s a natural product…so is poison IVY and opium but I’m not going near it!! Its made from corn and corn is subsidized by the Fed Govt! There fore there it is readily available and its cheap!! This high sugar content product is causing diabetes, obesity, and has no NUTRITIONAL VALUE!  The diet substitues?  Are sweetened with a chemical. 

Solutions:
 Make your own juices at home! A juicer is not that expensive.  It will pay for itself in no time..
Tea is still a good drink, decaf if you prefer-and water with a little lemon or lime is a perfect drink!  Look for all natural bottled juices with NO sugar or corn syrup added.  Natural sugars are easily processed in the body and if comsumed in wise proportions causes no health risk!

Side Effects Of Corporate Controls:
Pharmaceutical companies are holding our health care system hostage. I have heard that the owners of our horrible meat industry buy stock in the pills that we will be sold to treat our clogged arteries!! I don’t know ANY BODY who is not using some kind of prescription drug, except ME! I challenge you to find someone!! I do take a baby Aspirin trying to counter act the effects of years of eating “the American diet.” I have made a lot of change, hope it’s not too little too late

The drug companies have doctors dishing out billions of dollars in pills…Senior citizens are the largest sector under attack. Pharmaceutical companies partnered with Doctors are a guaranteed ticket to the revolving door…you go to the Dr, he finds something wrong (usually caused by poor eating habits and lack of exercise) he prescribes, you fill your medication and every 3-6 months you have to go back to the Dr, so he can make sure the side effects of most medications is not KILLING you faster than your diet and life style…and he writes another script…now you are hooked in…you are enslaved to this vicious circle of modern American medicine.


Mc-burgers
are made of beef that is full of AMMONIA, and thats to kill the fecal matter and bacteria before the meat is ground up---the chicken too, its not safe...IN fact MEAT is not safe to eat period, its clogging up the arteries of Americans...why? Because since meat processors can destroy the bacteria (with the ammonia) the trimmed fat they used to THROW away can now be ground in with the meat…so YEAH --now the meat has even more artery clogging fat!! SO you got FAT, & AMMONIA, and to boot its served on a white flour bun---it is a ticket to ride the heart disease train.


Thanks to the fast food industry the way meat in the USA is produced has changed dramatically.  In order to have tons of beef, chicken, and whatever ready to sell at the counter beef has to be raised faster, fatter, with no regard to the quality of life for the animal, and then slaughtered quick, in dirty facilities where poundage is money!  In order to give you the FAST food, every process in bringing Meat to the table has been made fast.  So you say, well I buy my meat and cook it at home.  SAME processors are making that meat!  Fast food chain's changed an entire industry into a huge nuturional disaster.  If the end product is BAD for you, then the beginning product was bad in the first place.  Millions of cattle, chickens, turkeys, pigs, and more are slaughtered each day to feed Americans and its providing the worst diet in our histroy


Solution:  For me it was simple-stop eating meat period!
Unless you know a local farmer who is raising quality beef and is slaughtering correctly and running a clean facility...then there is no way for you to get uncontaminated meat.  Some high end grocery stores are beginning to offer organic, range beef, chicken etc.   If you raise your own its the best way to go.  Humans are not meant to be eating meats...we can get all the protien we need from fruits and vegetables.




Got Milk?
Maybe you should throw it out! IM a VEGAN, Dairy products are not good for us either, but the Diary Producers of America say it is--why would they lie to us? Actually drinking milk can make bones weaker!! AHHH yes, but they say it does a body good. Milk is full of fat & cholesterol, fat clogs arteries and is hard to digest!! Arteries feed the tissue and bone of our bodies with nutrients and oxygen. Clogged arteries can’t deliver these life-giving essentials… therefore our bones are not getting the nutrition needed.  Dont we need calcium from the milk and cheese, and yogurt?  Actually NO...those products clog our life giving arterial blood flow.


We can get all the calcium we need from fresh fruits and vegetables, and th emost important factor to building stong bones is EXERCISE!! So if you have osteoporosis, talk to your Dr about an exercise program to help you build bone.


Solutions:
 I gave up Dairy Products cold turkey--its not easy there is bits of dairy in MANY foods-so another Corporate Coup has been unearthed. Nearly every processed boxed product has whey, eggs, milk, butter, or some sort of dairy product in it!
Although I dont particularily like soy products I use almond milk, and butter supstitues with no trans fats or hydrogenated oils-cheese in not part of a healthy diet and neither are other foods that come from dairy products.  Just stop buying and consuming them.  One great side effect is redcued weight and you can actually begin to reverse the effects these fats have taken on your circulatory system.


Why Would the FDA take advantage of us, consumers?
Many of the FDA regulators began their careers in the Meat and Diary Industry..where do think their work experience came from? They have ties from past jobs held in the Meat and Dairy Industry, Associations and Producers…so who’s side do you think they are on?  Yours or theirs, how about their former employers who helped them to land the job and makes sure they are well rewarded for keeping regulations in a place where it is inexpensive and cost effective for the Corporations who process foods and drugs for our consumption and use, they keep the bottom line healthy for the Meat & Dairy Processors, while the health of Americans goes down the drain at a very high cost!


Solutions: As Ive said above, just dont buy these products...your body will thank you!



Now they have found a way for Medicare to pay for these overpriced drugs—wow imagine that, people stopped buying their pills when the recession kicked in so lobbyists were successful at getting Medicare and Medicaid to pay for the drugs they manufacture. How clever is that? A way was made to get those pills paid for by the federal government---they don’t care if these pills are only treating/covering up SYMPTOMS of disease and not curing disease…hey its Modern Medicine!!! Dr’s prescribe, push the pills made by the large pharmacueticals ...ever see all the freebies sitting around in a Dr’s office, the pens, the pads, the calendars, the booklets, where do you think those come from? A visit by the friendly pharmaceutical representative that’s who!!

Free samples, come on it’s a product and they are selling their product. For years our doctors have looked the other way while we poisoned our bodies with bad food, and now the doctors are trying to keep a sick population alive with pills, wouldn't it make more sense if Doctors put Americans on a HEALTHY DIET...then they wouldn't be stuck taking pills to stay alive. (but that would put pharmaceutical companies out of business)  Some drugs can cost upwards of $700 a month!! Even weatlhy patients cant take a blow of that kind for long...but if your doctor is telling you this will keep you alive you will pay it!!

Most of these drugs can be manufactured cheaply, the patent on a drug keeps it safe from being duplicated for 20 years and when it’s up generics can be made and generally for a fraction of the cost of the name brand! In fact now deals are being made with the manufactures of Generic drugs and the Pharmaceutical corporations to stop the generics from being made–they PAY THEM MILLIONS to WAIT A COUPLE OF YEARS TO START CHURNING OUT THE CHEAPER GENERIC VERSION!!  So they can suck more money from the sick, ill, and dying, and Medicare, and private insurance.

Another trick of Pharmaceutical companies is to take an old recipe for a drug, change ONE component, maybe add a wee bit of a placebo and then sell it as a new Diabetes medication, or a new BP medication, or a New Pill For Heart Disease…its not new its just re-manufactured!! Yet that now means a new patent is issued and there is 20 yrs of overcharging all over again!


Trying to get the FDA to pull a diabetic drug that has now been linked to heart attacks was like pulling teeth...THEY did not pull it even tho studies show it increases heart disease and studies also show it has very little benefit to lowering blood sugar levels as it claims!! The FDA hearing was held in a hotel, wonder who was paying for those rooms? hmmm


Solutions: I hope if nothing else this post will encourage readers to question why they are eating food that is not fit for dogs? Is it more convenient to die slowly and get sicker and sicker or wouldn't it be better to TAKE control of what YOU put in your mouth and prepare your food at home in your kitchen from fresh ingredient? Take the time to learn about nutrition and dont get your facts from the FDA or the USDA or the national nutrion charts!  Do your own research-
I Suggest watching the following..
Sicko by Micheal Moore
Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock
The DANGERS ABOUT DAIRY PRODUCTS BY DAVID RIETZ

To emphasize my commitment to putting better foods in the bodies of the ones I love, I took it a step farther...what about my dogs?  Read the label on the foods you are feeding if you see CORN, then stop buying it...since when do canines eat corn? Some dog treats have High Fructrose Corn Syrup on them!! Read the label!!! Why do you think dogs have started to have the same diseases as humans?  Maybe its becuase we are on the same BAD diet!! High sugar, high fat, and poor qualtiy! I pay more but I swear it's going to save me money at the VETS with my dogs!
READ THE LABELS-
Im currently using 4-Health its grain free and my dogs are in great shape and they love it.  ITS Not perfect but its the best Ive found that I can afford...its $18 for a 15 lb bag.

More to come...