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Back in the 60s and 70s, it became apparent that we were not going to be able to feed the world population with the current state of food production.

You couldn’t grow enough crops fast enough.

You couldn’t produce enough meat, beef, chicken, pork, and fish fast enough.

And even if you could, using the then current methods, it would cost too much.

Enter – Lab Created Food and commercial agriculture.

You could actually manufacture food in a plant, making food fast, easy and cheap.

Commercial farming increased the availability of everything from meat to vegetables at a much faster rate.

There were a couple of problems.

First, no one would touch the fake stuff. Only very poor people ate it because it was cheap. It had a horrible stigma.

Enter – Big Time Marketing

Marketing geniuses were able to produce slick ads that would make your mouth water. And these foods were cheap, and easy to prepare. What more could a working mother want? Most people overlooked the fact that it didn’t taste that great and just sort of got used to eating it.

Then the next problem -

Everyone starting gaining weight. These foods were making people fat at an alarming rate.

Enter – the ‘Big’ industry

Clothing manufacturers scrambled and the ‘big’ industry was born.

Then the next problem -

These fake foods are not natural. They are not what you were designed to eat. They don’t contain the natural nutrients that your body needs to stay healthy. Diseases that were considered ‘old people’ diseases started affecting younger people. Diseases that were barely heard of started becoming common. And there was a big rash of new conditions that we never dealt with before.

Enter Big Pharma

They will develop a cure for everything. Except all the money you saved on cheap food will now be spent on prescription drugs.

Everything from ADD, depression, bi-polar, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and many more diseases have rapidly increased since the advent of these fake foods.

They blame it on things like fat, bacon, butter, eggs, meat, and carbs, but everyone ate all this stuff before. So what gives?

At this point its a very tangled web.

Many crops are grown from GMO seed. That means that the chemicals you used to be able to wash off are now bred into the plant.

These GMO foods are used in manufactured foods because they’re abundant and cheap.

These GMO foods are fed to the meat supply – which is unnatural for them as well. They grow fatter quicker too. Which is good for industry. You love it when you get those big huge chicken breasts for a song, don’t you?

But the meat supply is getting sicker too, so they add antibiotics to the feed.

So, it’s not enough that Doctors over-prescribe antibiotics, now you get them in your meat too.

Now we have anti-biotic resistant diseases.

Now the problem is – the original problem was never solved. We cannot feed the world population using natural methods.

And for the first time in many, many years, the life expectancy is going down. Your children will live a shorter lifespan than you.

The truth is, not that many people are very concerned. They will continue to eat the cheap garbage. And hopefully those of us that choose to eat natural good foods will still be able to do so.

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