were that I had this level of control

I ain’t there yet.

and it shows in my day to day peace,,,   Still turmoil and strife that breaks my ‘cool’.

Last night, I went off about the obesity thing here in the blog.   I have a point in my past that applies bias to that prejudice: my mother was always heavy, and it carries over to this day.  Even middle sis carries some of that bias, and we have talked about it on more than one occasion.  (especially around the time of my mothers demise.)

SO,,, todays post, completely out of context with my Sondays posts, (since I did my domestics yesterday, I can play today) will NOT be about Meditating monks and kittehs, but a vent of sorts, so that I can depressurize one of my many points of contention.

I get troubled when I see the contents of packaged foods.    Corn products and soy products in EVERYTHING,,,    When I was returning from Kuwait, we had a stop in Bengledesh; a humanitarian effort to relieve them after a serious monsoon blew through and created mad flooding.   Thousands dead (maybe 10’s of thousands.)   When we arrived at the Dock, the people there were offended by what we had brought, and at the time, I, ignorant little Jarhead I was, thought,” you ungrateful fuckers!”,,,  

It took a few years and some learning on my part to understand that, THERE, what we brought them was considered cattle feed, and guess what: THEY DON’T EAT THEIR CATTLE,,,,   That last part did mess with my mind for many years and can still be a glitch in my thinking.   I mean, we, as a species are omnivores, and yet, the hindi are very much vegetarian, and have been for thousands of years.   (not the Vegan of Western world.  they do eat fish and eggs and such,,,)    But seriously, you have a 2000# heffer roaming the streets while people are dying of starvation, and you get pissed off about someone bringing you cattle feed?   For an uneducated Jarhead, that was beyond the pale.     (For the record, it was corn and corn meal that we brought them.)

Even here in America, as far back as the Civil War, corn was not a staple.  It was used as cattle feed, as a base for making alcohol, (and was far easier to ship long distance in the latter form) but only used as a supplement to human diet, not the main courses.   NOW, as one can see if you read packaging contents, its in everything, even the drinks that we are so inclined to.    (and there is a strong relation to sugars and cancer: look at the cancer rates since the 60’s, when corn syrup was ‘being encouraged’ , to now.)

Moderation is key,,,

and yet, these products are ubiquitous in our food supply.    GMO products at that, since the only way they can produce that much is by modifying existing seed to grow in conditions not optimal.   We feed our cattle on that crap, and then we eat the meat from said cattle,

and we get fatter and fatter.   And I’m not talking the uniform fat of gluttony, but the cattle-like fat: skinny legs and arms with bodies blown out of proportion.  You’ve seen them, they look like walking beachballs on stilts.   Just like a meat producing cow has a wide girth, but thin boney legs.

And the kids.  I can not recall seeing many ‘fatties’ in school when I was a kid.  Oh, they were there: one of my best friends was diag’ed with Diabetes at the tender age of 12.   He was an outlier, not average.   Now, and I have some experiance with while working around the schools for my J.O.B., that rotund look is the average, and the lean mean athletic types are the outliers. 

It’s not all food related, of course.   There is a lot more sedentary living going on, with the Information age booming.  Games on computers, where when I was a kid, it was all outside, running feral, drinking from garden hoses, living on dirt and sunshine, make your own fun, and maybe bleed a bit in the doing,,,

Now the playgrounds have rubber based ground, or 12″ of mulch, NO HARD PIPING like shown above,,, everything is rounded edges, smooth surfaced and SOFT,,,   THAT is thanks to Lawfare of course, not the Food industry,,,  but the point is along the same lines.  We are growing a softer generation(s) and they ARE our future.   Yet, they will needed coddled and supported near as much as we will in our infirm aging bodies.   WHO is going to provide that, when we are all falling apart from bad health and a medical establishment that is run as a business model.

KNOWING,,, That’s my problem, innitIT?  (“isn’t it” for my UK readers,,,)  I see it, and being but on small voice in the electronic void, can do little more than scream holler and rant.  

So I attempt to meditate with kittens playing on me.

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