[Porsche-O-Phile]

Way too much added sugar and processing in general of food in this country. Added sugar (corn syrup = added sugar, high fructose corn syrup = added sugar, "natural flavors" often means added sugar, etc.). I'm starting to buy more and more of my stuff from a local farm stand. Really getting sick of paying $100+ a week on a grocery bill that buys packaging and advertising / marketing materials (this represents an awful lot of what goes into the cart and just ends up in a landfill), junk that has too much added sugar and high embodied energy costs (why the heck are we buying stuff trucked from hundreds of miles away or worse still, produce that's brought in from thousands of miles away?)

The state of food production and distribution in this country is frightening when one starts really looking at it. Thank the gods I'm a vegetarian, which helps filter out a lot of the crap, hormones, poisons, etc. but I can still do better - as we all can. The garbage people call "food" today is becoming less and less so and more and more laboratory byproduct. I see predictions regularly that in 20 years, one out of every three Americans will be diabetic. I believe it. Look around. It's shameful and frankly I think government is complicit in it by sucking up to big agribusiness - the same way they turn a blind eye to the sins of big oil; big pharma, big banks, and big data / telecom (and in the not-too-distant-past, big tobacco). The govt wants that tax revenue and they don't care what happens so long as they get it. The government won't protect you from this stuff - only YOU can. Caveat emptor! Stop buying and eating this schit!