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Don't eat this, don't eat that!

by Underground Panther in the Sky, Unknown News

Dec. 6, 2005

Our world is totally contaminated.

Our foods -- all of them -- have toxins in them on them. Even the organic foods are contaminated, because the soil is contaminated, and the water. Organic veggies have antibiotics in them, and how do you think it got there? Fertilizer from cows with growth hormones and antibiotics produces plants with antibiotics in them. Even if the farmer gets organic raised cow poop for his garden, farms upstream have
 
runoff, rivers have sewer dumps, and the rain falls on farms and cities, and the runoff from chemical-contaminated rains fill the rivers and water the fields.

The food containers, air, water, all these are infused with chemicals and pollutants and they are inside us too. Each of us carries a heavy "chemical load" before we are even born. None of us are "pure" and chemical free.

You can try to eliminate some of the toxins from your life, but it's futile. For poor folks it's almost impossible. Stress kills, bad food, sugar, sucrose, mercury in vaccines ... We are seeing three-headed toads and other animal mutations, fish are changing sex. I know the wild animals eat organic foods and don't shop at supermarkets or drink Coke, yet they are mutating. What happens to them is going to be happening to us.

Why do we hear so much about
 

two-headed snake


double-tongued cat


three-headed frog


two-headed kitten


the occasional Siamese twin separations in the media? Could they be softening us up to a future with mutant kids? Mutant kids offer a profitable futures for corporations -- all those health problems, and desperate parents willing to do pay anything to save their poor suffering baby. $$Ka Ching!!$$

We have detectable levels of Valium and amphetamines in our drinking water now. Think about that. It's ghastly, unacceptable, and inescapable.

Teflon plastic containers for organic veggies, stay away from meat (mad cow, bird flu, etc.), buy an air purifier, don't eat fish, don't eat sugar, don't eat high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, or Splenda. There's lead in crayons, PCB's in everything, out gassing carpets, allergens, don't eat non-organic fruits, don't eat ..., don't use ..., don't, don't, don't, don't ...

Eventually, people will have to realize that everything's contaminated. Everything. There's no avoiding having to exist in a polluted, overtaxed, sick, dying world and feeling the effects of countless people's wastes and unrestrained "progress," consuming, and stress. You can't stop it, any more than you can stop a tidal wave by holding your hands up and bracing yourself.

We are all going to die. If not from old age, it will be from something else. The animals will die, because they live with us in this polluted world.

For me the answer is to not fret every waking moment over what I eat or don't eat. As for "food safety," in this age that is a relative term, so be reasonable but not phobic.

I will die. My quality of life will go downhill, because decay, entropy, and dissolution is the pattern of what life over time becomes in this world.

I can preoccupy myself endlessly questioning which additives, allergens, foods, or chemicals hurt me the most, and avoid them. You can find out what hurts you the most, and avoid that. When it changes avoid the new irritants. It's endless paranoia for you and endless profits for certain markets. Remember the story of the company that made carcinogenic chemicals in pesticides that also made cancer medicines?

Eventually there will be no refuge on Earth that is contaminant-free, no escape from this pollution. For we all have to eat, breathe, drink, and exist until our time is up.

The world is dying and it is far past the time for us to do anything to save it. Please wake up.

My sister is vegetarian. She seeks out only organic cotton clothes, and she is a clean-living advocate out the wazoo -- she doesn't even use ketchup. She tells me chemical and contamination nightmares that would make the organic, healthy-living crowd want to go live in a bubble suit and never eat or breathe again. She is a safety officer who inspects food, restaurants, and other products for the state's requirements for public safety. She is scared shit-less about all this stuff, and stressed out accordingly. She is killing her health with the stress of trying to stay healthy, in a world in obvious decline. She is fighting a good fight, and still she is dying and trying.

Chemicals are everywhere. Almost all of them are toxic one way or another to the living. We all exist in a chemical and contaminant stew called Earth.

Every year something like 50,000 new chemicals are OK'd for chemical companies to manufacture and spew into this world. Most people never know what these chemicals are or what they can do to living beings in the long term or short term. No-one understands how these new chemicals will effect the already chemically infused environment fully -- not even the people who make the shit and sell it know this sometimes. Labs are not like real-life conditions, really. They are too contamination free to tell the story honestly.

Genetically-modified foods will proliferate the shelves, whether we want them to or not. Companies can slip in genetically-modified food in the grocery store, in pet foods, or release pollutants into the environment and lie about it and no one would be the wiser until the crops won't grow one year.. And by than it's too late to do anything. You have to buy seed from Monsanto or go without food. Gotcha!

Eventually, when someone complains that they ate an apple that made them sick, there will be no way to prove it indisputably, because the corporate pigs can point out that there's already be a ton of aggravating allergens and contaminants in every home, on every corner of the Earth. The fertilizer may not have been washed off, or maybe that apple tree has been exposed to chemical runoff from that pig farm five miles upstream.

The suit will be moot with the new tort reform. Too costly to tease out what exactly caused the person's reaction, from the environment that is already making us sick, and isolate the offending apple from the lead, mercury, PCBs and whatnot to prove it was the genetically modified apple that did it by itself.

We all carry a chemical load now. Most people have over 100 detectable levels of different heavy metals and industrial chemicals inside us right now. In our blood. In our lungs. In our flesh.

Even if we stopped the chemical companies overnight, shut them all down, and stopped driving, stopped eating their mass-produced products, and voluntarily went back to stone-age living or just killed ourselves off, it would not stop the slow death of this world. The damage has been done. The damage comes from beyond us, and it uses us.

And a worldwide flood and ice age will not erase the damage. Some of these contaminants have shelf lives for THOUSANDS of years. The chemical companies don't know when or how or even if they "break down."

Never before on this world has the air, land, and sea been so filled with unnatural contaminants. This is how a world ends -- death by chemical excess and terminal madness, that looks so damn normal.

Hug your kids (if you have them) or hug your pets, and realize there is no going back to the way things were. This is the beginning of the end.

What comes next? I don't know, but I guess we will find out when we find out. We are not in control, and we never were in control. We just like to pretend we are.

It's time to stop pretending. There are things more important to attend to than your own or this world's survival, and those things are inside us.


© by the author.

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There's lead in crayons, PCB's in everything, out gassing carpets, allergens, don't eat non-organic fruits, don't eat ..., don't use ..., don't, don't, don't, don't ...

Eventually, people will have to realize that everything's contaminated.

Everything.

There's no avoiding having to exist in a polluted, overtaxed, sick, dying world and feeling the effects of countless people's wastes and unrestrained "progress," consuming, and stress.

You can't stop it, any more than you can stop a tidal wave by holding your hands up and bracing yourself.
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