Oinkedy Oink Oink -- A Feisty Blog...

So I don't really like to lump myself in with the obese American population, but let's face it people, I'm one of the 65% of Americans who are overweight. And I'm working my damn ass off to change that fact. I don't want to be lumped in. Lumps suck. And I'm not okay with being a fat American....

Articles like The 20 Worst Foods really get me going about how America is when it comes to food. We are a nation of fat people -- and yet we continue to let restaurants and grocery stores dictate to us what our diet should consist of. I mean c'mon! I was at the store the other day buying fruit and veggies and Lean Cuisines and I spent 4 times what the person in front of me spent with their massive basket full of soda, mac n' cheese, processed foods and potato chips. What the $^%&!?!?! How is it that we have this massive (pardon the pun) obesity epidemic and healthy, good for you food remains three times the price of the crap and junk food that truly can barely be considered food to begin with? Don't get me wrong -- I love my Kraft Mac n' Cheese every now and again (I think I'm down to about once a year), but it's not food. It's crap in a box with about as much nutrition as the box itself. In fact, if you ate the box, it might actually up the nutritional value by adding some actual fiber to the meal.

And yet, we sit here and take it. We let the advertisers and the manufacturers tell us what we are going to eat. Bah! I say enough is enough already! I want my lettuce to be cheaper than that box of mac n' cheese and those 9 cans of Spaghetti-o's, I want to be able to buy a massive bag of fresh fruit for less than I can buy a bag of chips for. I want to go to a restaurant and order a salad and get a salad. I ordered a salad last weekend at a restaurant which was supposed to be a buffalo chicken salad -- yeah, ha. It had a massive piece of chicken, fried of course, fried onions, a massive heap of cheese, two celery sticks and one piece of iceberg lettuce. That's not a salad. And I want a discount when I order healthy food at a restaurant. And I don't want to be looked at funny when I ask for diet tonic water or my salad dressing on the side!

Ooohhhh I'm on a roll...

So why don't we up the taxes on junk food? We tax the crap out of cigarettes and alcohol, why the heck not tax junk food. In the long run it's just as bad for us as that pack of smokes or that fifth of JD. Sure we should still have these foods -- why not, everyone needs a little splurge now and again. But seriously, do we really need to subsidize these industries which do nothing but destroy our health with taxpayer funds? Why not subsidize the dairy farmers, and veggie growers and companies that make healthier foods?

Holy soap box Batman!

Sorry, couldn't help it. I am just annoyed and tired of being overweight and trying every single day to change that fact only to go to Walmart and watch the largest individuals I've ever seen purchase the most fattening food in the world for less than my veggies and yogurt.

End of rant...

FGS