Poisoned ~ All for the Sake of a Dollar

When I was 9 - 10 & 11 years old, I remember that little girls still looked like little girls. I don't remember seeing any that started to develop, until maybe the last part of 8th grade or the 1st semester of 9th grade. I also don't remember many if not any obese kids in my grade school. Now I am also not talking of a time too awfully long ago, only 37 years.

Nowadays you have girls that start developing in the 5th and 6th grades and sometimes by the end of 7th and beginning of 8th grade are almost fully developed. You have many if not half of children, sometimes starting as young as 1st grade bordering on obese.

Why ??? Why such a change in less than 50 years time ??? What have we done to change our evolutionary structure, to effect such a drastic change ????

Well, our corporations, all for the sake of the almighty dollar have been doing this to us. The food industry, people who make and produce the things that we put into our bodies have helped shape and change our evolution.......

One is the milk industry, for years and years, their ad exec's have come up with the brain washing technique and slogan "Milk it does the Body Good" and have had many a superstar, Musician, Actor/Actress, Sports Figure in a commercial with a milk mustache telling us that slogan.

What they won't tell you, is that to make a cow produce milk long after it is suppose to by nature, they will pump it full of growth hormones. Those growth hormones absorb into the cows system, and naturally, are present in the milk it produces.

Also milk is a protein, and proteins inhibit the absorption of calcium in the body. So when you think that you are getting a good supply of calcium from a glass of milk you are wrong, you can actually get more calcium from a leafy green vegetable.

Now living here in Georgia, it is the chicken capitol of the world. We have more chicken farmers here per capita then any place else. You will pass farms that will have 6-8 chicken houses that will hold 500,000 chickens each. Just in my county alone I know of at least 50 of these chicken farms of this size. That's a lot of chicken!!!!!

Also surrounding in and about the area, are Hatchery's and processing plant's, and many support services. Chicken is big business in my area.

At these chicken farms, day old chicks will be dropped off and placed in one of these 500,000 chicken holding houses. The farmer will feed and water and care for these chic's and 6 weeks later they will be picked up as full grown 6.5 pound or better chickens to go off to the slaughter house (processing plant) to go to the refrigerated case of your local grocery store. Or your next McChicken sandwich.

How in the world do they have a full grown chicken ready for the table in 6 weeks ?? Again they use growth hormones.... And these hormones get absorbed into the chicken and we digest it when we eat the chicken !!!!!

Now do you start to understand why we have little girls that are starting to develop at 9 - 10 & 11 much younger than they did when my generation was coming up.....

Now I haven't even mentioned all of the antibiotic's and all of the other crap that they add to the cows and chickens, supposedly for our own good....

Now lets move on to obesity; the other night I watched a movie titled "Super Size Me". It is a documentary, in which a man goes on a 30 day diet (breakfast, lunch & dinner) of nothing but McDonalds food. Now before this diet, the man is in perfect health, 185 pounds, 4% body fat. He employs 3 doctors to monitor his 30 days, before, during and after. A general practioner, a cardiologist, a psychologist.

After just one week, his blood pressure rises drastically, he gains 9 pounds and his cholesterol goes up 150%. By day 21 he is almost hospitalized and his doctors warn him to discontinue this documentary. He wants to finish and against the advice of his doctors continues this crazy diet and does finish the 30 days.

By the end of the 30 days, he has almost destroyed his liver by the fat content he took in from his McDonalds diet, his doctor is amazed and said that he had only seen that type of liver damage by an acholic. His cholesterol level had went up almost 250%, his blood pressure went from a normal range of a health man to 165/92...... If you have not seen this movie, I suggest you rent or buy it, "Super Size Me"

McDonalds refused any interviews with the man who made this movie, but did remove the super size fries from its menu after the movie was released.

When I was growing up, just 37 years ago, we had to play outside. We had to pick up a stick pretend it was a gun and run around a play cowboys and Indians. We had to throw a football or play baseball or ride bikes. Going out to fast-food or getting a pizza was maybe a once a month treat. Sitting inside was not an option.

Today, fast-food is at least a once a week thing, if not more. Getting a kid to go outside to play is like you asked them to go to work. Sitting in front of a TV watching a DVD or playing a wii or a play station 3 is the thing now. Give a kid a stick and tell them to use their imagination with it and they will look at you like you are crazy and ask you where the remote control for it is.....

It is no wonder why half of the young people hitting the 1st grade are obese and no wonder why juvenile diabetes is on the rise.......

When I was growing up, smoking was cool !!!!! My parents smoked, their friends smoked.... On TV you would see the actors and actress's light up in movies and sit-coms, you would see cigarette ads everywhere.... But things changed, we found out how harmful tobacco products are and what damage they can lead to.

Yet as much as we know about the harmful effects of tobacco, it is still legal.... You may not see it on TV or movies, you may not see ads or billboards for cigarettes.... But time and time again I will see teens out in public lighting up or dipping......

Now when I lived up north that was not a problem, (dip and chew) but down here in Georgia that is a BIG problem - I thought smoking was a nasty habit - But dipping and chewing tobacco is a nastier habit...... You forever have to look when you get out of your car in a public parking lot down here, like a solider going through a mine field, for the spit, or wads of tobacco, some nasty person has spewed from their mouth, or you will wind up with it on the bottom of your shoe..... Plus if you think lung cancer is a bad way to go, think of mouth or throat cancer, form dipping or chewing tobacco.

All of these health hazards we know about tobacco, yet the tobacco is allowed to continue to sell its poison on the streets. All of the health hazards and yet I hang my head when I see teens that ignore it and still light up or dip..... I did not know of these hazards when I was seduced by tobacco, and I struggle with my addiction, and nicotine s an addiction, I have quit several times, yet it still draws me back.... But if it was outlawed and removed, I would not have access to it....

Major corporations, all for the sake of the almighty dollar !!!!! They may have changed our evolutionary tract forever.... Adding growth hormones to what we drink and eat, to make our children develop at younger ages....Creating fast-food fatty diets appealing to children to make them obese.... Creating games and toys that inhibit imagination and outside play, that also contribute to the obesity problem. Still marketing and selling health risk products like tobacco.... Corporations all for the sake of a dollar - putting you and your family at risk !!!

Something to think about !!!!

Just one man's opinion. As always, put the wind in your hair and keep the sun to your back. Be good and stay safe. Peace, Love and Prosperity to all.

Frank WOLF watchdog taking a BITE out of corruption!

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