I've Had It With You Junk Food Producers

Every time I go into a store, I have to walk past rows and rows of candy, cookies, cupcakes, pies, ice cream, crackers,all kinds of packaged junk food that is not good for me.

There are frozen dinners containing more chemicals than actual food. Packed macaroni and cheese that has powdered cheese and chemicals. Cakes of every imaginable style and flavor, some with garish decoration. Breads of all types, so many you have to be a real sleuth at reading labels to buy the one or two kinds that have healthy ingredients.

I once counted seventy-two different candy bars in one small convenience store.

Consuming this junk has contributed to the obesity epidemic and all sorts of chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer. You know, things that will kill you.

You know, I don't really believe you people are out to kill us. I do believe you do not care.

You just produce it, piously saying you are only giving people what we want.

HORSEFEATHERS!

You produce it because you know we will buy it - because we are weak. You display it in tempting ways. There are even college courses on marketing the crap.

You do not produce what we want. You make what you know we will buy, and you do not care that you are contributing to our demise.

Sadly, a ban on the junk smacks of censorship and government control, things I do not care for.

Maybe you could wall off a section of the store and put the junk behind there, and people would have to ask to go in to buy it, like porn - but no, that wouldn't work, either.

How did it get so bad? What can we do now? Thanks a lot, you creepy manufacturers and marketers. Wish you'd grow a conscience.

Just Say No to Junk Food?

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