April 6, 2013
I was at a moderately priced Sushi restaurant a few weeks ago. While I was going through the menu, I saw that they had crab. When the waitress came by, I asked her if it was real crab.
She smiled coyly, and informed me, “It is imitation crab.”
“How come it doesn’t say ‘imitation’ on the menu?” I was puzzled.
“If it was real, we would say ‘Not imitation.’”
“Logical enough. So this is fake crab. Can I pay with fake money?”
She turned cold. “Counterfeit money is illegal, sir.”
I got it. Two lessons learned: One, fake food is legal, but fake money is not. Second, fake food is the default — if it’s real, they will tell us.
The next day, as if by Laws of Attraction, I read an article that said 84 percent of white tuna in sushi restaurants is actually escolar, the snake mackerel fish that causes – sorry for being graphic – oily anal leakage, and was banned by the FDA until 1992. It is still banned in Japan, Italy, and requires warning labels regarding the leaky discharge in Canada, Sweden and Denmark.
And it’s not just fish. Fakeness has become epidemic.
More than 75 percent of honey in the supermarket is not even honey. Just corn syrup, mixed with some chemicals that smell and taste like honey.
I started buying organic honey a while ago, and I could tell it tasted wonderful and different. But guess what? Soon I learned that the term “organic” can be applied to something that is only 75 percent organic. So what I should be looking for is “100% Organic.” Preferably, “USDA certified”. And just when I thought I had found the perfect honey, my friend brought me back to reality saying, “What you also need to look for is the phrase “raw and unfiltered”. And “pure” might be another good word as well.”
If you just get olive oil, you are in for a big surprise. What you need is Extra Virgin Cold Pressed Olive Oil. (I wonder if the Bible describes Mary as “Extra Virgin”?)
So there are all kinds of adjectives we need to memorize and remember, if we want to get good, real food.
Salmon? Did you make sure it is ‘Wild’, or at least ‘Responsibly Farm Raised with no Antibiotics, or Hormones’? If you get chicken or beef, make sure it is organic. ‘Natural’ doesn’t mean anything these days. And verify the ratings of how the animals were raised. Sometimes it is good to have lower numbers, and sometimes you need to look for higher numbers.
Eggs? Regular eggs are from tormented, sick chickens. And I used to think ‘cage free’ was awesome. Nope. It doesn’t really mean much, in spite of the heart-warming pictures of happy chickens they have on the cartons. So, organic eggs are much better. But, really, you have to get ‘100% USDA certified organic pastured eggs.’
If you are at a fancy restaurant, they will have beef from ‘grass-fed cows.’ Wow, what a concept. Cows have been eating grass since the days of dinosaurs, but now it’s a high-priced novelty! (To be fair, I didn’t do any research on the evolutionary origin of cows).
You like chocolate? Get organic. And also, look for the “Fair Trade” logo. Otherwise, it could be from Africa where big corporations like Nestle make nine year old girls work in cocoa fields for fourteen hours a day.
Of course, always look for anything that says there is no genetically modified stuff. ‘No GMO’, ‘Non-GMO’ etcetera are good things to see on labels.
This is crazy! Everything is upside down. Real things should not need adjectives. Altered and fake things should need adjectives.
We should not need an Excel sheet to remember every damn set of adjectives for every single thing we eat or buy.
It’s time to shift the burden to the industry that profits from fake food. Let them have an asterisk next to everything that is not real, and in a box below, let them explain how the real thing has been altered. Let them say ‘filtered, heated, processed, 90% GMO corn syrup honey.’ Chocolate should be marked ‘involves pesticide, child labor, and unfair trade.’ And, of course, imitation crab will no longer be called crab.
Everything real should just be known by its real name. Absence of adjectives should be a good thing.
On the other hand, if the marketing gurus at the food industry really need to have an adjective, here is one: JFF—Just F***ing Food TM. And call me first, please. I have it trademarked.
The Hunger Site
May 30, 2013 at 9:35 pm
Excellent job Chris! Sadly very true. Keep doing what you’re doing!
June 3, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Thank you, Kerry
May 14, 2013 at 12:47 am
Its possibly unfortunate that any language is fluid, it changes with each generation that takes up its usage, each generation seeks out new superlatives to describe things in an original way … and so with each generational change the ‘marketing dept’s’ need these new superlatives and adjectives to describe and attract a newer market… this is a great article, not just great or well written but also slightly groundbreaking as its the first time I’ve seen an article try and tackle not only the food production industry but also the language misuse… Shifting the burdon to the food industry is a nice sentiment… but so long as the laws are fairly lax on labeling and descriptive use of the language… its a fairly tame sentiment… maybe shifting the burdon on education so the reader better understands what hes reading from a younger age would be a more useful tool in our arsenal ?
June 3, 2013 at 2:02 pm
Thank you. You’re right about the desire to come up with new stuff. Corporations have to make up stuff to increase their sales, and hence the “new and improved” all the time. At some point, it becomes fake inventions–inventions not for the sake of improvement or progress.
May 6, 2013 at 8:40 pm
LOVE YOU!!! my sentiments exactly…. so now we plant a garden:) Just like great-gramndma did.
May 6, 2013 at 10:39 pm
Thank you so much, Valerie! And yes, gardening is an awesome solution to this problem.
May 5, 2013 at 8:13 am
Can I get a real book, “Deconstructing Monsanto”?
JFF- Love it!
May 5, 2013 at 10:51 am
Hi Carrie, thank you! I wanted to keep the book short enough for a quick read, and hence the e-book. Also, the use of hyperlinks of references is possible with an e-book. You can get the free Kindle software for your PC/Mac/iPhone etc and can read the book. Hope that helps
May 6, 2013 at 3:40 am
Very helpful, thank you!
April 30, 2013 at 2:19 pm
I couldn’t agree more
May 5, 2013 at 10:52 am
Thank you, John
April 29, 2013 at 5:43 am
Great job Chris! Keep up the fight!
April 29, 2013 at 10:04 am
Thank you, Robin. If enough of us take actions, we will change the system
April 27, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Fabulous! Well put!
April 29, 2013 at 10:03 am
Thank you
April 23, 2013 at 10:44 am
Report by the Center for Science in Public Intrest
An analysis of more than 33,000 cases of foodborne illness shows that
ground beef and chicken have caused more hospitalizations than
other meats.
April 23, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Thank you for sharing this, David. I found a link for what you mentioned: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57580986/ground-beef-chicken-more-likely-to-cause-severe-foodborne-illnesses-in-u.s/
April 22, 2013 at 5:59 am
So sad, so true! Can you mention how much $$$$ we all have to fork out for real food while you’re at it? Try feeding a family of 5 – you end up in the poor house just on groceries!
April 22, 2013 at 11:24 am
Yes. On a cost per calorie basic, real food is 3 or 4 times more expensive than fake food thanks to our government’s crazy love for genetically modified soy and corn
May 6, 2013 at 6:51 pm
Redo your math and factor in the health effects and environmental impact of cheap fake food and you’ll discover organic food is a bargain.
April 22, 2013 at 1:12 am
Wholegrains, legumes and veggies are much harder to fake. If it looks like a cucumber it probably is =)
April 22, 2013 at 11:26 am
Yes, although they are genetically modifying many grains, plants, and vegetables as well. (GM potato, tomato, and wheat never really took off, but they are at it)
April 21, 2013 at 5:44 pm
@ Mark Thttp://www.rodale.com/chicken-and-factory-farms
Citation
April 21, 2013 at 12:18 pm
Actually fake money is legal and ubiquitous. Banks manufacture money out of thin air every day. Said money isn’t based on anything they own except by a minuscule percentage (fractional reserve monetary system) of money either on deposit or on loan. Banks create money based on a highly leverage accounting of debts you owe banks. They offer loans even though they don’t actually own the money they are loaning out. The majority of money is fake. The majority of food is fake. We live in a fuckin fake world. Nice article BTW!
April 22, 2013 at 11:26 am
Thank you, and yes, fake money is a whole new article!
April 21, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Very
interesting… but unfortunately we live in a society where the only
thing that counts is making money… not keeping healthy…. so we have
to be all eyes, we can no longer trust what’s written on labels, we have
to look for what’s really in what we eat….. that’s a real shame…. What’s surprising is that WE have the power to change that, provided that we all boycott these fake – even poisonous – so-called food because this is no longer something we can call food… as we don’t even know the damages it’s causing…….. anyway, the only thing we can do to make big corporations change in the right way is to boycott them…. they don’t care about our health…. they only care about their money… so let’s play their game…. let’s make them lose money….and at the same time watch our health….
Nad (from France)
April 21, 2013 at 7:10 pm
You are right, Nad. We have the power to shape our future. If we change the hearts and minds of enough people, we can defeat or change the corporations
April 20, 2013 at 9:21 am
RESPECT STATE MARIJUANA LAWS. H.R.1523
{Godamnit, sure a lot of FogCity Food Fetishists out there} Just a reminder of where Prop37 came from:- http://www.labelgmos.org
DON’T LEGALISE – DECRIMINALISE.
This is kinda related, but I know many FCJ afficionados are ‘interested’ in the subject. There is a lot of proposed marijuana legislation out there. My primary interest is in it’s medicinal potential, but if you value your bud for recreational use I suggest you also pay attention. There is a need for some kind of oversight to ensure efficacy, safety, access, affordability for patients in need, however ‘legislation’ and over regulation will inevitably lead to a situation where the Feds, BigPharma, BigAg and avaricious middle-men will monopolise and control the market, this will not be in the best interests of patients or the public. The Feds have already issued patents for ‘cannabis medications’ created in the lab, the first over 10 years ago; which raises the question why is marijuana still categorised as a Schedule1 drug – no medicinal value; those of us working in the health care field are familiar with the first of these frankenmeds, Marinol, the major benefit of which is to generate profit for the manufacturer. Sativex is next and the floodgates will soon open and we’ll be drowned in phony pot. There is one piece of legislation that does make sense and in my opinion is the logical, sensible first step to take. It has been introduced by Rep Dana Rohrabacher, H.R.1523. At least it might give us the illusion of some ‘local’ control. I hope one of the following links will work, if not then check my FaceBook page or do your own research. Smoke ’em if you got ’em.
Patrick Monk.RN. Noe Valley. SF. Ca.
http://bit.ly/ZydTWG
http://www.ibtimes.com/what-hr-1523-respect-state-marijuana-laws-act-introduced-1190325
April 19, 2013 at 7:52 am
I’ve had “fake foods” on my radar for awhile but you really opened my eyes. I’m dismayed and frankly depressed that grocery shopping requires so much time and energy not to mention money. Fortunately I live in an area (Portland, OR) where there is a lot of choice.
April 19, 2013 at 9:57 pm
Thank you, Ursula. Portland is a beautiful city with friendly and socially/environmentally conscious people!
April 18, 2013 at 8:40 pm
Well said.
April 19, 2013 at 9:57 pm
Thanks Benicio
April 18, 2013 at 4:38 pm
Thank you for sharing! I feel the same way! It sucks too because it is very expensive. The organic fair trade cocoa powder I buy is a small container and it $13.00! It is a luxury for sure. I appreciate your article and do not feel alone in this battle. Sometimes, it feels that way in the small southern town I live in and very limited health stores.
April 19, 2013 at 10:00 pm
Thank you, Liz. I have seen some good deals on Amazon for real chocolate/cocoa. If enough of us say NO to unfair trade, child labor, and synthetic pesticides, corporations will change their ways. They need us more than we need them!
April 18, 2013 at 11:24 am
I like the JFF trade mark. I personally try to eat JFF, but I disagree with a few points. First of all, GMO has been thoroughly backed by the scientific community as having no different dangers than either organic or conventional crops. Sullying their name is akin to killing third world starving and nutrient deficient people– because you are. http://www.goldenrice.org is a good example. Also, it would be nice to see some sort of citations if you have the time.
But good post, reminds of of a Dylan song :”now everything’s a little upside down, as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped. What’s good is bad, what’s bad is good, you’ll find out when you reach the top– you’re on the bottom.” Song is ‘idiot wind’ and is an attack on lack of common sense.
April 18, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Mark, people in India are using organic methods to break world records of rice yield. Check this out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/feb/16/india-rice-farmers-revolution
April 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm
First, it was found that organic food and non organic crops yield the same amount. Article was in NYTimes around last month.
Second article, a little older, (two months?) found there was an increase of (30% (40%?) of Asthma and Allergies over a ten year period with GMO food. This was a substantiated an earlier study done in Norway. (Whose scientific community has surpassed the American for a decade or two now. Oh, America, how far have we fallen!?!?)
April 18, 2013 at 11:11 am
Well Said!!!!! I grew up eating grass fed (right off our pastures) beef, and we recieved our honey from the local tree farmer, who needed a place to keep those bees when the trees weren’t blossoming. Now, I’ve moved away from my parents, and live in the corn/soybean belt of the US (my husband is a corn/soybean farmer, but my theory is not all tobacco farmers smoke, so we can shop Whole Foods, and buy non-gmo seeds for our garden). Now I get my Grass Fed Beef from our neighbors, who also sell at Farmers Markets In Omaha, and their cows eat the pasture around their house. I get my honey from a local bee keeper, and I know it’s real, it is nonpourable if it’s too cool in the house. And peopel around here think I’m a food snob… No, I just want real food, food that’s as close to being living as possible… my body can’t handle stuff that wasn’t designed for it, on a regular basis. I’m not a food snob, I want real, pure food. I want food that’s Food, not food that’s Manufactured. Oh, as for Eggs, when my chickens aren’t on strike, I get them from those free loaders that live in our pasture, and barn 🙂 Real Eggs.
April 18, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Sounds wonderful, Jillian! It’s interesting how some people take care of their inanimate objects very carefully, whether it’s their car or their iPhone, but if you want to eat real food, you are a snob!
April 18, 2013 at 10:43 am
This article made me laugh. So true!
April 18, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Thank you, MJ
April 18, 2013 at 8:55 am
Love the article! It is a shame that this country is so far behind when it comes to labeling. I do not understand why it seem so difficult to give us REAL food!! I would love to have JFF without having to read every F%$@ing label!!
April 18, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Thank you, Arlene. A lot of it is due to our misguided agricultural subsidy policies. If we subsidize real vegetables and fruits, we wouldn’t have a whole industry of junk food based on genetically modified corn and soy
April 18, 2013 at 8:55 am
And did you know that “Alaska” is an adjective. Turn over that package of “Alaska Salmon” and see if it is from China. My supermarket claims this is not misleading because “Alaska is an adjective.”
April 18, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Farm raising sick fish in crowded conditions, giving them antibiotics and hormones…it’s quite horrible. But they always have nice packaging that make everything seem all right
April 18, 2013 at 8:10 am
Chris! Thank you! We need more people like you. Will you join the March Against Monsanto. We need educated individuals who are willing to speak on such subjects. I am organizing the one in New Paltz, NY, but you can join the one in your area on May 25 th, if you would like.
April 18, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Thank you, Beth. I am definitely planning on going to the March
April 17, 2013 at 7:35 am
Wow, this was such an eye-opener. And here I thought buying cage-free eggs was worthwhile. LOVED your comment about paying the restaurant bill with fake money.
April 18, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Thank you, Dina
April 17, 2013 at 5:48 am
Well said. This is one of the reasons why I grow as much as I can on my own. Drying, freezing, preserving, canning helps to stretch it out over the year. Going to the suppliers and meeting your farmer also helps you to know exactly where much your food comes from and what’s in it.
April 18, 2013 at 2:25 pm
Great ideas, John. People in large cities have become very disconnected to food and nature. We all need to raise the awareness
April 17, 2013 at 4:44 am
I’ll take my food sans genetic modification which means that I don’t want pesticide engineered into every cell. Food should nourish not kill organisms that eat. GMOs are designed and engineered with lethality as their primary feature.
April 18, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Agree
April 17, 2013 at 2:16 am
Thank You! This was well written and educational! I greatly appreciate the knowledge you passed to us. Cheers!
April 18, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Thank you, Sasha. Appreciate it!
April 16, 2013 at 3:49 pm
Here is the link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-juice-artificial_n_913395.html it’s worth while reading as you will never buy store bought juice again
April 16, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Fresh orange juice unless its squeezed in front of you is not fresh. Tons of oranges go to a juicing plant were they are pulverized, the juice is stored in gigantic vats, all oxygen is extracted from the vats as no oxygen in the juice can preserve it for a year or so. When juice companies like Doyle place an order for so many cartons, X amount of gallons is extracted from these vats into a separate vat where Doyle or similar juice companies add designed taste created by their chemists.
Full article was in Huffington Post about a year ago.
April 18, 2013 at 2:27 pm
All in the name of shelf-life and profit. Thanks for the article, David
April 16, 2013 at 12:52 pm
LEST WE FORGET.
Just a reminder.
All love to Pamm Larry.
http://www.labelgmos.org
April 16, 2013 at 9:20 am
OMG, a liberal that I agree with!But keep the government out of our food supply. Anything they become involved with, they mess up. Signed a goat farmer who makes cheese, raises chickens, cattle, and a garden and stays home, working, it on the weekends.
April 18, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Liberals and conservatives have quite similar physiology! We all need the same nourishing food.
April 16, 2013 at 9:09 am
Kudos! I’m a diabetic and have been trying to figure this out for the past year! And the sad part is that I still don’t have it all down. Seriously it shouldn’t take anyone 1+ years to figure out what’s in their food. A few months ago I purchased coconut oil, a few months later I found out I should have purchased cold pressed EV coconut oil…ay ay ay completely nutty!
April 18, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Thank you, Sandy. You can try “neem” leaf powder and see if it works for you. It has been shown to act like a natural insulin and help control sugar levels
April 16, 2013 at 8:38 am
Love this! You summed up half of my blog content more succinctly than I ever could. JFF!
April 18, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Thank you, Sara. What is your blog url?
April 16, 2013 at 8:38 am
Brilliant! Couldn’t agree more.
April 18, 2013 at 2:32 pm
Thank you, Beth
April 16, 2013 at 8:37 am
Thank you for not sugar coating your words – even with 100% organic USDA certified fair trade sucanat!! This article is brilliant, to the point, engaging, and had me LMAO at the end! You have a new fan!!!
April 18, 2013 at 2:32 pm
Thank you, Laura. Love to have your support!
April 16, 2013 at 8:25 am
Thanks Chris for putting into words what I think every…damn..day!!!
April 18, 2013 at 2:33 pm
Thank you, Michelle. Hopefully, the next generation can grow up in a world of JFF and thank us for our good fight!
April 16, 2013 at 8:19 am
Pure Gold dude… such bullshit… like “natural” PB needs to be labeled, where as chemically atlered shit PB is just PB
April 18, 2013 at 2:34 pm
Thanks, Mark. Agree with you.
April 11, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Welcome to the World–not the World of…, but just the World. We’re in it for the long run. Better be literate, because if you can’t read product labels, mouse print and legal briefs you soon will not be able to live. You will die from lack of information, which you will have to acquire constantly throughout the day–whether it be FAKE news, e.g. Twitter feeds, network news, whispers on the street, website links to fake stories or medical breakthrough press releases perpetuated by the media (“This discovery COULD mean the end of —— in the very near future. Scientists at GenoPomp report in the Journal of Death-defying Medicine that all life will be fake by the year 2020.”) Just be very worried when the fake crab is actually found moving on the beach and consuming real crab, which have barcodes on them to identify their origin–in which factory they were assembled. BTW, have you heard about “grass fed” cattle that are actually munching on astro turf?
April 10, 2013 at 1:43 pm
God this was vindicating and SO GOOD to read!! I live in a food desert, and sometimes I think I’m the only one who cares about this, thinks this way!! I’m sharing this. And YES, I JUST WANT F***ING FOOD TOO!!!!
April 10, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Thank you. Let’s work together to make JFF a reality!
April 10, 2013 at 12:19 pm
It ain’t easy being Green.
Good work as usual Chris. How will we be able to distinguish between Natural Soylent Green, Cage Free Soylent Green and Organic Soylent Green
April 10, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Thank you, Patrick. Always appreciate your feedback!
April 9, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Brilliant! Especially the passionate personal frustration expressed.
I just cannot trust any food anymore – after several shocks when
discovering what I’d been ‘carefully’ buying and feeding my family, over
a year ago I decided to read every label on the few packaged foods I
still purchase.
Feeling silly, read the salt box – contains sugar and ‘preservatives’
[isn’t salt the oldest preservative in the history of humankind?].
Buttermilk – corn starch, and a host of other thickening agents and
chemicals to keep them suspended [for ‘mouth feel’ the dairy rep told
me]. Ditto cottage cheese, yoghurt – the so-called ‘healthy
choices’.
And they keep evolving – same brand and package of many of these now
contain high fructose corn syrup. This, I occasionally rant, is a fraud.
Fake food. These additions [and deletions]
from the essential original product change it to something else without
concern for the altered nutritional composition [never mind
taste].
And ‘fresh’ produce and meat/chicken/fish et al are adulterated as
well. That garlic [from China]? Not garlic. some sort of onion modified
to [suggest the] taste of garlic. The ‘fresh’ chicken? ‘Flavour
enhancers’ as ‘broth’ ie lots of water, adding valueless weight, high
fructose corn syrup, sodiums, other thing, also adding weight in
addition to cheap industrial crap. Same with so called ‘fresh’ meats
and the rest. Smoked? nope. a bath of chemicals including dangerous
nitrates and others are infused with thickeners to the meat to simulate
smoked and aged – this allows for very fast aging I must say! Butchered,
smoked and wrapped up in a ‘country quaint’ wrapper, simulating the
family farm, loaded by the ton into the bigrigs and whoosh – out of the
factory and into your grocery aisle.., all in a blink of an eye.
And, my greatest heartbreak – the ‘whole wheat’ fiasco: breads [and
wheat flour and other flour products] are not what is traditionally
thought of as ‘whole’ meaning the whole grain ground up with all the
good natural vitamins and minerals intact. Nope. Some time ago the FDA
allowed whole to mean plain old white flour with some marginal amount of
wheat bran added in – along with colours etc to simulate the real
food. Asked the bakery and was informed ‘whole
grain’ is the proper reference. But, when I checked that out lately – it
now [or maybe always] starts as white cheap flour again with some
grains and bran and colour added back. Oh yeah, with cheap synthetic
‘vitamins and minerals’ – representative of only a portion of what
should be there. Often odd things like cheap
non-viable calcium [‘for health’, wink nod], a ton of salt [the single
largest source of salt in our diet nowadays], and the obligatory high
fructose and the rest of the weighty additions – applied ‘. No protein,
which should be a there as a good source especially for vegetarians –
when combined with beans or rice, corn – this used to make a ‘complete’
protein food and was very satisfying.
Oh, but wait – the rice is stripped as well and don’t eat the ‘whole’
rice [brown] because of the exceedingly high arsenic mercury content the
pediatricians recently warned us about – in a full page NYT ad because
the FDA refused to respond over many years. And corn – like beets and
other ‘wonderful’ produce we are encouraged to eat? Modified into quite
another ‘animal’ – pretty much all starch – designed primarily for sugar
production, and virtually no ‘germ’ left – the sweet spot where the
proteins and vital nutrients once resided.
Not long ago these
were quality foods, plentiful, inexpensive, tasty, and highly nutrient
dense. The food of the gods, the ‘staples’ that could support a healthy population even
with little else available.
And, don’t even begin to look at what has happened to the potato.
April 9, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Thank you Sadie. You have enough wonderful points for another article!
April 8, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Its sickening.
April 8, 2013 at 11:11 pm
Hey, Chris. I admin at March Against Monsanto. I’ve shared your article on the page, as well as GMO Free USA & The Anti Media. We would love it if you would consider speaking at one of our rally/marches on May 25th. Let me know. You can contact me through the page or my email. -Tami
April 8, 2013 at 6:50 pm
Amen!
April 8, 2013 at 6:42 pm
AMEN!
April 8, 2013 at 5:12 pm
Great article – and I so echo the sentiments! Today’s fauxfood seems like cheap substitutes at best, chemical warfare at worst. Whatever happened to accountability for false advertising? And GMO companies successfully argued against labeling by asserting that their product is virtually the same as the real thing while simultaneously obtaining patent rights by claiming their product is so unique it warrants protection! Food and health have become completely disconnected, branded corporate commodities in our society. Eating what you grow is the only way you’ll know!
April 8, 2013 at 8:28 pm
Thank you, Susan. You are right about false advertising. Can you imagine if we sell homemade cereals with Kellogg’s label on them? That would be fraud, punishable by fine and prison sentence!
April 8, 2013 at 5:10 pm
You’re the best Chris, this article is spot on, thank you!
April 8, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Thank you, Nicole. Much appreciated
April 8, 2013 at 5:02 pm
Nailed it.
April 8, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Thank you, Jacquie
April 8, 2013 at 4:50 pm
So true! Fake until proven real.
April 8, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Thank you, Liz
April 8, 2013 at 4:36 pm
Great article!! Thank you, Chris!!
April 8, 2013 at 8:24 pm
Thank you, Paula
April 8, 2013 at 4:32 pm
A-MAZ-ING! Perfect article. Also, this is why my friends hate me 🙂
April 8, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Thank you, Sandy. And keep at it. I have changed a few hearts and minds among friends and family. It takes time, but it’s worth the efforts!
April 9, 2013 at 7:01 am
I admin on a FB page called ‘The Conspiracy Archives’. We have 65K+ followers. I’m posting your article (w/ full credit, of course!) 🙂
April 9, 2013 at 8:31 am
Thank you!
April 18, 2013 at 11:12 am
Ha ha! This is why my In-laws think I’m totally nuts, and a food snob…
April 6, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Amazing article! So true and so sad. “Fake is the default”- wow. Everything regarding mainstream food is so backwards. Thank you for your continued witty insight and being an overall health and wellness prophet. Preach on Chris!
April 8, 2013 at 8:29 pm
Thank you, Becca!