What is That All-Natural Shit We’re Eating?

It’s Mechanically-Separated chicken

What’s in that cellophane really with its list of polysyllabic ingredients, 35 chemicals long?

Just look at that snack of extruded meat byproducts, blister-packed for your grab and go pleasure

Your nutritional needs as efficiently distributed as any mass produced Chinese Wal*Mart plastic

Ever more clever ways of coloring up hydrogenated oils, corn syrup and lots of good old salt

Says this pre-fab energy bar is ‘All-Natural’ – Well, so is the stuff I flush down the toilet

They pick their cage-grown ‘Atlantic’ salmon’s appetizing color off some chemical salesman’s chart

Their healthy organic produce was groped by illegales with diarrhea and unwashed hands

That juicy hamburg has been profitably extended using internals they used to simply throw away

That factory is full of salmonella, rats and roaches but they call their product peanut butter

Their chicken was raised as humanely as their corpro-exec brothers stamp out outsourced auto parts

How is it that all of that nutritionless shit crowding the many snack aisles could be so fattening?

Look at these happily grazing kids, safely shielded from holocaust-style feed lots and slaughterhouses

Why do you need sawdust fiber and Chinese vitamins if your meals are so healthy and nutritious?

Did you notice the same grimy trucks delivering institutional fodder to all your favorite restaurants?

What really makes you overstuff yourself with those too-bright, agent-orange colored Cheetos?

Ever wonder why the bread is so pusy soft that it rips when you just try to spread some fake butter?

How is it that you prefer sugar-enhanced, artificially-flavored snacks to simple fresh fruits?

What ingredients are preserving those ugly layers of fat swelling your body from head to extremity?

Probably all those pesticides just get washed off and we never eat or retain them either, right?

The mass suffering of our meat animals is invisible beneath their clear and sterile wrappers

Surely it’s rational economics that BigMacs are cheaper than green salads made at home

Un-inspected, off-shored, cost-cutting ingredients surely bring only low price benefits to consumers

What is really important to the dairy industry is more milk output per production unit at lower cost

So they feed them grain they cant digest and shoot them full of antibiotics when they sicken

What was that shit in those colorful plastic wrappers that we find carelessly strewn everywhere?

So you don’t read the nutritional information because you can’t understand it, right?

After all, they didn’t raise their prices, they just silently decreased the contents a little bit

Invisible, but rich, food conglomerate CEOs surely care more about you than say, the bankers

Its not evil to hook and fatten kids on bubbly, nutritionless, black, sugary, caffeinated water

Anyway, what could all those spots be, in that red shit they are calling turkey pepperoni?

Rest assured that cutting costs and raising profits rhymes with safe and healthy food

Don’t think about obscenely large-breasted turkeys who can barely stand, much less ever mate

Ignore pig shit, cow patties and chicken wastes and their doctored contents in your tap water

Don’t ask why they genetically engineer and patent crops to resist their own pesticides

Just listen to their warm messages about feeding the world and ignore their global price fixing

What is that funky bluish shit inside that grease-coated donut you just gobbled yet another one of?

Don’t fret over subsidizing corn syrup to fatten us all up and then having to pay for all our diabetes

So, just what is that poisoned, fatty, mass-produced shit we nervously shovel down day in & day out?

Ignoring Harmful Economic Externalities

Externality -A consequence of an economic activity that is experienced by unrelated third parties

Silt-filled rivers are no concern of those whose livelihoods depend on the timber harvest

Heavy metals leaching after the mine closed is not part of their successful business plan

Product and packaging disposal or reclamation has no place in an accurate profit model

Emission restrictions are useless job-killing taxes, not production expenses or investments

Reneging on pension and bond obligations permits us to be competitive going forward

We need not consider public services in our housing and commercial development plans

Requiring the cleanup of acid-laced lakes is an unfair competitive burden on coal power plants

We must remain free to emit all our new compounds with no responsibility for unknown effects

Air and water are inexhaustible free goods available to all producers and consumers

Industrial diseases are basically unintended, but necessary, by-products of our good progress

Business production planning naturally seeks to avoid the extra expense of waste disposal

Any mandated expenses distort the free market, but our government subsidies are a necessity

Prevention may be important, but our profit model only requires treatment and drugs

Social programs are horribly inefficient yet insurers cannot compete with government healthcare

We rightfully mine fossil water royalty-free to maintain our short-term agricultural profits

Agribusiness firms do not bear responsibility for the runoff that taints our mother’s milk

Ignoring externalities lowers consumer prices and gives producers competitive advantage

Your typically misguided regulation costs too much money and sacrifices too many jobs

Waste disposal firms derive no revenue from proper separation and safe storage practices

Mountain top removal justifiably focuses solely on the efficient extraction of the valuable coal

Rational consumers purchase based on benefits to themselves, not on some hazy future

A sustainable ocean harvest means fewer profits and smaller dividends this quarter

Soil degradation boosts short-term bottom line and earns CorproAg managers fat bonuses

Our responsibility for the fertilizers and weed killers we produce ends at their point of sale

We are, indeed, stewards of this earth but our profit-bound businesses certainly are not

There is no recourse for the regrettable respiratory effects of diesel-powered transport

The loss of songbirds is sad yet inevitable collateral damage of a healthy consumerism

Disposal of cheap, unskilled, young labor has no reportable downsides for globalization

Deplorably, salmon fishing ends because desert farmers need all of the polluted river water

That the rainbow-hued jungle birds take up mercury from the gold mines is merely a real shame

Real estate developers bear no financial burdens for smog, traffic and loss of watersheds

Should your statutes become too burdensome, our production will move where rules are lax

Dead zones at our river mouths are too complicated to stop and too expensive to restore

We need not book any ill-effects of our canned developments on non-renewable tourist areas

Deposits on recyclables are foolish socialist meddling in lawfully completed transactions

Neither government nor business bears the responsibility for the environment that sustains both