Because of government subsidies, that’s why.
As I do research on ways to clean up my diet, I keep stumbling upon little gems like this. It drives me crazy!
The article is from 2007, so the Farm Bill it mentions has already come and gone, but it’s a clear illustration of how broken the American outlook on nutrition is. Lobbyists for the big agribusiness like Monsanto, ConAgra along with self-motivated government officials are killing us with their subsidies to meat and grain producing farmers.
The government also purchases surplus foods like cheese, milk, pork, and beef for distribution to food assistance programs—including school lunches. The government is not required to purchase nutritious foods.
Today, we get most our nutritional guidance from advertising and the government. Except for the very outer fringe of the food industry, their goal is to make money, not make you healthy. More often than not, the people making decisions about the content and quality of the items sold on the shelves at your grocery store are not nutritional experts, they’re business people.
Don’t be fooled by their purposely misleading terms like original, homemade, premium and authentic. These are marketing terms, not statements of food quality. Trust me… I work in advertising. It’s all half-truths and perception spinning.
I encourage everyone to take a good long look at what you’re eating. And when I say that, I mean look beyond the whole Lyme or anti-candida diet concept. Unless you specialized in nutrition in college, everything you learned in school about a healthy diet no longer applies. Even the pyramid on the right – the one that the government says exemplifies a health balance – is wrong.
Do your own research. Be your own nutritional expert.
