Food, Bad?

Ride down your city's main street on a Saturday evening. I am almost certain that you will see the parking lots of restaurants over-filled with the cars of their mouth-watering customers. With wait times of 30mins to an hour, customers stand together anxiously waiting to devour the fat filled dishes advertised to appeal to even the pickiest taste buds.

Being brought up in the microwave era, the fable of the Little Red Hen is long forgotten. It is rare that anyone wants to work hard in the kitchen. For some, the simple task of boiling water is as complex as an algebraic equation. Instead of gardening the vegetables, consumers rush to the nearest Walmart to purchase "fresh" produce and the conveniently prepared packaged meals. The question to be asked is, how fresh are food items that our FDA approves of? Take a look at what is allowed in your food..


Canned Citrus Juices (such as orange juice) - 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

Cornmeal - Average of 25 or more insect fragments per 25 grams

Cranberry Sauce - Average mold count of 15%

Fig Paste - 13 or more insect heads per 100 grams of fig paste

Macaroni And Noodle Products - Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams

Mushrooms - Average of over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms

Crushed Oregano - Average of 300 or more insect fragments per 10 grams

Peanut Butter - Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams

Spinach - Average of 50 or more aphids, thrips and/or mites per 100 grams

Tomato Paste, Pizza And Other Sauces - Average of 30 or more fly eggs per 100 grams OR 15 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams

Wheat - Average of 9 mg or more rodent excreta pellets and/or pellet fragments per kilogram

Speechless yet?

Aside of the "fresh" food, we cannot overlook McDonalds. The special "M" that appeals to even your toddler is part of the reason our nation suffers so greatly from OBESITY. According to a survey derived from n America alone, 35.7 percent of adults are obese and 17 percent of children suffer from obesity as well. In 2008 McDonalds spent $1 billion dollars on advertising in the U.S. alone.  In 2009 McDonalds earned a revenue of $1.26 billion dollars per quarter. In the midst of it all, people suffered heart attacks and diabetes due to high blood pressure. Food--what we need to survive is actually part of why we are dying...