The Great American Grocery Hoax

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There is a big secret out there in the grocery store aisles that no one wants you to know.  There is a hoax of monumental proportions that is being perpetrated on the American public.

Before I tell you what it is, let me remind you of some things that you already know.

It’s no secret at all that the American economy is in dire straits. Unemployment has skyrocketed and today’s dollars buy a lot less than the dollars of just a few years ago. Even the most thrifty shopper will pay substantially more for a cart full of groceries.  To make matters worse, our country’s main food-producing areas have been devastated by droughts, and you can expect that prices will only go up from here.

So people work for slave wages, if they can find work at all, then go to the grocery store and buy what they can afford.  And that is where the secret comes in.

The secret is:

The stuff sold there is not actually food.

Nutritional Anarchy has posted a couple of videos recently about the massive number of ingredients in inexpensive processed food items.  You can learn about what is contained in a Hungry Man Homestyle Dinner HERE and about the gastronomical delights that 48 cents will buy you HERE.

If you’ve ever been broke, you can easily see how a “meal” for a couple of dollars or less would be an appealing addition to a grocery cart.

But here is the scary epiphany:

The stuff sold there is not actually food.

I guess this depends on one’s definition of the word “food”.

Dictionary.com says “food” is:

any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life,provide energy, promote growth, etc.

Merriam-Webster says “food” is:

 material consisting essentially of protein, carbohydrate, and fat used in the body of an organism to sustain growth, repair, and vital processes and to furnish energy; also :  such food together with supplementary substances (as minerals, vitamins, and condiments)

The Oxford Dictionary says “food” is:

any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth

Traditionally…and by traditionally I mean ever since there were humans on the planet eating stuff…food came from one of these sources: plants or animals.  It has been hunted, gathered, foraged, cultivated, and farmed.

But now these substances are being created in a lab environment. From purely synthetic ingredients, compounds are formed.  Sometimes a bit of the original food is present, perhaps a small bit of meat or vegetable or grain, and that item is stretched with chemicals to turn it into a food-like substance. The substance is shaped to look like food. It is artificially colored and molded into forms like some kind of semi-edible play-dough.  Then scents and flavors, also artificial, are added.  This makes the substances resemble food even more because now it tastes and smells like food.

Because it isn’t immediately lethal to ingest, those noble guardians at the FDA slap a label on it that the substance is GRAS – Generally Recognized As Safe.

Then the substance is placed into little plastic trays, foil, bags, or cellophane. That is placed inside a box with an illustration on the outside. The illustration looks like the food that the substance inside all of the packaging is supposed to taste like.  Perhaps it is a juicy roast beef dinner with mashed potatoes, savory gravy, and carrots.  Your brain processes this visual stimuli and expects that the substance contained within is indeed “food.”

But it isn’t.

It’s a scam.  People go to the store to buy food, but they are sold something else, something that only pretends to be food.

The stuff sold there is not actually food.

Only a tiny fraction of the contents of that box is actually food. Your ancestors would not recognize this as food at all.  If you dare to eat this, you are consuming a food substitute that is being passed off to you because there is no food left for the likes of us.  Most of what is being sold in the grocery store is NOT ACTUALLY FOOD. It is food-like substances. It is a pile of chemicals masquerading as food to satiate hunger and deceive those who consume it into believing that they are eating food and ingesting nutrients.

Did you ever see the movie Soylent Green? In the movie, the futuristic over-populated world no longer can provide food for the population.  Instead processed food-like substances are rationed out to keep people alive.  Initially, there was Soylent Yellow and Soylent Red, but then, a new product, Soylent Green, became available in limited quantities. The actual source of Soylent Green is a closely guarded secret: no one is allowed to know what is actually in it.  Consumers are deceived with some scientific sounding descriptions until the awful truth comes out.

Does this sound familiar?

While Soylent Green was actually made from ground up humans (sorry, spoiler), the origins of what is being sold in our groceries stores today are no less mysterious or closely guarded.  Soylent Green was so delectable to the unknowing public that they would commit heinous crimes to get more.  The food-like substances in the grocery stores are loaded with processed white sugar (which actually has addictive properties similar to heroin), high fructose corn syrup, and MSG, which stimulates the production of hunger hormones, giving a whole new meaning to that fun slogan, “Bet you can’t eat just one.”  If you eat this stuff,you will be hooked because they want you to be hooked.  You will be perfectly content feeding your addiction instead of nourishing your body.  You won’t even MISS actual food.  The next generation may not even know what actual food IS at the rate these processed concoctions are filling pantries and refrigerators in homes across the country. Those with lower incomes are particularly targeted by this, because unless you are making good money, it’s nearly impossible to purchase nourishing, whole foods.

I’ll give you a hint: if it is sold in a box and it has more ingredients than you have fingers, it probably isn’t food by any accepted definition.

It might keep you alive, but it will not keep you nourished and healthy.

Big Food doesn’t really care if you die from eating this stuff, as long as you don’t keel over immediately – then they’d be liable.  They don’t care if you develop cancer or if you are malnourished.  That actually just helps out their buddies at Big Pharma.  Then they can go play golf together on the proceeds.

There is a conspiracy afoot and you can find evidence of the massive deception as close as your nearest grocery store, fast food establishment, or corner store.  They are selling poisonous artificial food, and people are happily paying them for it.

Commit Nutritional Anarchy.

Rebel.  Just say no to food-like substances.  Declare war on Big Food.

  • Refuse to eat these products that are flavored with brain-cell killing neurotoxins that tickle the pleasure centers in your brain and make you want more.
  • Grow what you can – no matter how little, it is going to be better and healthier than what you’ll get at the store
  • Buy ingredients instead of “meals” in a box.
  • Cook from scratch.
  • Visit your farmer’s markets or local farms.  (Find one near you HERE)
  • Learn what to eat when you’re broke – make the best choices when you are on a tight budget.
  • Build a whole-food pantry.
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Daisy Luther

Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, globe-trotting blogger. She is the founder and publisher of three websites.  1) The Organic Prepper, which is about current events, preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty on her website, 2)  The Frugalite, a website with thrifty tips and solutions to help people get a handle on their personal finances without feeling deprived, and 3) PreppersDailyNews.com, an aggregate site where you can find links to all the most important news for those who wish to be prepared. She is widely republished across alternative media and  Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses. You can find her on FacebookPinterest, Gab, MeWe, Parler, Instagram, and Twitter.

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  • My husband worked for nearly a year in Lithuania a few years ago. This country has a culture that is very much like the 50’s were here. Practically everyone has a garden, or a small plot, or a small green house. He said they even grew potatoes in the flower beds. The family he rented part of their house from would frequently leave tomatoes, bell peppers and the like in his kitchen for him. They were very different from ours in the states. He also said that they did not use much sugar. In fact, they call it “white death”. Shopping for him was a challenge, both from the language standpoint and also from the products that were available. His land lady often cooked for him and shared.
    In America today, I fear not enough people actually know how to cook from scratch. So sad.

    • I find your reply very interesting. I was surprised about the small greenhouses. I was not surprised, however, about the 1950s mentality of cooking from scratch. There was a corporate take over on the habits and attitudes of the 1950s homemaker, and my mother, as well as my friends’ mothers were no exception. It was the second generation Italian families (with the (grand) parents still living with them)in the neighborhood who were the exception.

      I am known to be a good cook. Ha! It isn’t my cooking abilities; I would not impress Julia Child. I cook old fashioned home style meals with the best ingredients we can afford or find. I don’t think the average person knows how good food can taste without the artificial ingredients/flavors.

      As an aside, my one daughter works in Food Science (large company). I called her one day wondering what a particular ingredient was on a bag of uncooked frozen shrimp. I don’t remember the name, but **it was also used in drywall.** I did not buy the shrimp.

      The homemakers of my youth were hoodwinked, but today, there is no excuse.

    • I find your reply very interesting. I was surprised about the small greenhouses. I was not surprised, however, about the 1950s mentality of cooking from scratch. There was a corporate take over on the habits and attitudes of the 1950s homemaker, and my mother, as well as my friends’ mothers were no exception. It was the second generation Italian families in the neighborhood who were the exception.

      I cook old fashioned home style meals with the best ingredients we can afford or find. I don’t think the average person knows how good food can taste without the artificial ingredients/flavors.

      As an aside, my one daughter works in Food Science (large company). One day I called her from the grocery store, wondering what a particular ingredient was on a bag of uncooked frozen shrimp. I don’t remember the name, but **it was also used in drywall.** I did not buy the shrimp.

      The homemakers of my youth were hoodwinked, but today, there is no excuse.

  • I enjoyed reading this article.
    REAL food is my biggest passions. We’re not perfect, but we do well. The things that are allowed to be passed off as food here in the US are frightening to me.

    A few years ago my husband and I were at a diner for breakfast. He took one bite of his scrambled eggs and said that something is wrong with them. We called over the waitress who explained that unless you requested ‘real eggs’ they used egg beaters. Because we only eat ‘real eggs’ the taste was immediately obvious. Sometime after this we were keeping one of our nephews. Their family does not eat the way we do. They eat a lot of processed food and from fast food chains. Our young nephew took one bite of his scrambled eggs and was getting ready to spit it out. My husband was a little upset because he said there is nothing wrong with the egss. I had to explain to him that just like you were not used to ‘fake eggs’, he is not used to ‘real eggs.

    So glad to see you’re passing on the message to cook from scratch and use the best ingredients that you can.

  • If you don’t need to just be able to microwave food and have it ready to eat in five minutes, there are a lot of things you can eat that are real food. I eat a lot of pasta, brown rice, and frozen vegetables (because they’re cheaper than fresh vegetables).

    I think it’s like Daisy said in her article on eating gluten free; you have to be willing to eat different things, rather than trying to find healthier versions of what you already eat.

    And speaking of GRAS, I came across this interesting article the other day:

    http://consumerist.com/2014/04/07/potentially-harmful-chemicals-find-their-way-into-our-food-thanks-to-56-year-old-fda-rule/

  • We all know that the big dogs are not eating the same foods they foist on the american public. I’ve been asking for about two years now for someone to find out what the elites are eating, who grows it and where. Maybe you could find out this information and make it public, Daisy?

  • Five years ago our family began prepping. We started buying food for storage so I started looking at the ingredients list. It was a turning point in my life. We’ve stopped using the microwave for anything edible. We no longer purchase anything with ingredients we don’t recognize. The hardest part of our transition was getting off corn syrup. It was agonizing. We had to go at it like an addiction. It was a process of slowly weaning until we were off it for good. We stopped eating fast food. Since the local ordinances forbid us (living in the country even!) to have chickens, we found a place where we buy fresh eggs right from the hen house. We can even gather our own if there isn’t any already crated up. Our garden is full of heirloom varieties and we’ve started the process of saving our own seeds. Last year we did some but this year, we’re going to get them all. The GMO’s in the food supply are poisoning people and they don’t even know it.

    I lived in Europe for eight years and know they eat differently than Americans. Most Americans don’t realize that the big food companies have different recipes for Europe because they’ve banned GMO’s and many of the products that Americans get in their packaged foods. And America is struggling with a burdened healthcare industry…

    This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I have a two year old granddaughter who is growing up in America. Luckily, her parents are aware of the poisons riddling the food supply.

  • It has been some time ago that I heard a “motivational speaker” at a business conference. The conference had nothing to do with food, but this guy spoke to the women that came along to the conference. His big point was that food manufacturers, including the BIG companies put “stuff” in food that makes you fat & makes you hungry. Ingredients that we can’t even pronounce & have no idea what they are!! He made the point that the same companies that manufacture this food, are the same ones making a fortune off the “Diet products”!!!
    Therefore was very interested in this & also as a senior citizen eating a fraction of what I used to & having a very difficult time keeping my weight in line–doesn’t make sense!
    Thank You & keep the information coming!!!

  • Glad to read your article, when bringing up my two girls I cooked as my Mom did, and her Mother did, from scratch. When my younger girl was in Junior High, she came home one day after school, looking through the kitchen for a snack. She complained “there’s nothing to eat”. I told her she needed to make something. Then I asked her what her friends ate for snacks? Her answer was packaged,and frozen foods. I told her not in our house, she would need to learn how to cook!!! It opened her eyes. She came home one day after school six months later and let me know that she came to the realization that her friends were sick more often, and that she seemed to be well, that eating healthy was important to your immunities.Today she has a degree in Culinary Arts and is working on Nutrition next. Thank you Mom! And to my precious Grandmother. Lynn

  • I knew most of this stuff, but most people as you state are happy to drink the koolaid. We do have local farms and farmers markets. I need to go more often. 🙂

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