How to kill a Corporation . . .

Did you know most of your taxes go toward subsidizing corporations? How can we kill them?

The answer is actually startlingly simple; Stop buying their fucking products. Nearly everything that is produced and distributed by corporations is of terrible quality and carries an opportunity cost of a small business that also makes that variety of product going out of business. I know you love your local coffee shop, but they are literally struggling to compete with Folgers and the like of Starbucks. Seriously, RedBox and Netflix have all but annihilated any last scrap of hope there was for small local video stores to survive, and I love those places. So I propose a solution to you: Lets kill corporations. I'll give you the recipe right now.

1. Pinpoint which specific corporation pisses you off the most, or does the most damage to people

2. Discontinue any and all spending that is in anyway funding this corporation

3. Tell many of your friends and family what you are doing and why

4. Sit back and watch the corporation of your choice grasp for it's last breaths

Don't believe me that it's this easy? I assure you that it really is, if you actually follow these steps. Now there is a bit of a trick here; Step 2 is going to prove much more difficult than you have ever imagined, because of how connected most corporations are to each other. (The safest bet is to stop buying anything that allows your money to wind up in the hands of a corporation) Also, Step 3 is assuming you keep nearly a million close friends who value your advice . . . I mean you’ve got a Facebook right?

I assure you that you can do it. So put on your thinking cap . . .  which will you start with? Sysco, Monsanto, of Dupont by chance? How about Nestle or Coca Cola? Really any one you choose is a good one, and remember just what a great service you will be doing for the rest of the world. Thank you, kind and gentle citizen of this planet. I salute you.

If you need some ideas, or another reason to want to kill corporations, here is a great one . . .

TEDxEastSalon - Bjarke Ingels - Hedonistic Sustainability

Hedonistic Sustainability - Bjark Ingels





Bjark Ingels is one of the most inspirational people on the face of the planet, guaranteed. He lives in one of the most inspiring countries in the world, and I have been constantly impressed with Danish citizens. If you are into these projects, and what is possible through design and architecture, combined with the idea of sustainability, check out his website . . .
http://www.big.dk/#projects

Obesity Out-Weighs Hunger

Not that it is a worse problem, just a bigger one, literally. There are many more people on the planet today who are overweight, than there are people who are underweight.

Don't believe me? Check it out . . .

World Hunger
7,186,659,724	current total world population
896,920,322	undernourished people in the world right now
1,581,544,772	overweight people in the world right now
527,181,591	obese people in the world right now
18,590	people who died of hunger today
8,903,447	people who died of hunger this year
Economics
$ 289,276,200	money spent due to obesity related diseases in the USA today
$  71,480,264	spending on food purchased and then tossed by US households today
$ 3,323,688	spending on global food aid today
$ 21,609,215	amount that would allow to feed the hungry today
$ 114,913,634	spending on weight-loss programs and products in the USA today
$ 996,058	food aid budget spent on domesticprocessing and shipping today
$ 581,908	revenue for four large US agribusiness corporations derived from food aid programs today
$ 28,261,834	spending on pet food in Europe and USA today
Food
79,789	tons of food wasted in America today
16,624	tons of global food aid provided today
80%	percentage of harvested corn, grains, and soy beans fed to animals in Europe and North America
78%	percentage of malnourished children who live in countries with food surpluses
90%	percentage of hungriest nations on earth that are net exporters of food to rich nations (36 out of 40)

The funny part is, all or most of both of these groups, obese and starving, are malnourished. Along with the advent of industrialized farming, comes the inevitable consequence of nutrient poor crops. Then along comes nutrient poor animals, and of course malnourished people.

I mean seriously. The obesity problem is big, I get it, but how could we possibly let it get bigger than hunger? Well, to explain it simply, when you are not getting enough nutrients, your body keeps telling you you are hungry, and you continue to eat, even though you have had enough. Also, many of the food additives that exist today like MSG, Aspartame, and others actually turn off your body's natural alert system that tells it you are full, so you eat more.

It is each of our own responsibility to do what we can in our own spheres of influence to combat this imbalance in food distribution, and stop industrialized food production and distribution practices. When people are starving out there, it is up to each and every one of us to stop it. The fact that more people are overweight than starving should disgust you, yes, but it should also prove to you that there is hope. We know we have enough food to feed everyone. We just need to distribute it equally amongst people.

The least we can do is allow small farmers to operate without the same kinds of regulations as multinational corporations, so that at least those of us who are smart enough to know what real food looks and tastes like can have a chance at receiving proper nutrition. Buy only organic and locally grown produce, do not shop at corporations, and for your own sake, KILL YOUR TELEVISION.
Media is a grand manipulative tool that the large corporations use to control the masses. That's us. Good little sheep that just keep getting fatter and fatter, while there are starving people out there. Place the blame where it is due, Corporations are killing what is left of humanity people.

Monsanto, Dupont, and corporations like them have gone too far. They have created a vicious cycle of profit-driven food production, that leaves us as consumers starved for nutrients. First they sterilized the seeds, then the ground in which it grows, and now the sterilization reaches humans.

Eventually, we will be manufactured in test tubes, as genetically altered Corporate slaves, that are engineered from birth to be perfectly obedient little consumers. Stop the matrix from becoming a reality.

Buy Local, Eat Local, Live healthy . . . Kill Corporations

Corporations are Trying To Kill you With Fast Food

Not only was it bad enough that giant food corporations like McDonald's, Sysco, and Monsanto were contributing to the deaths of millions by way of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease . . . they are now on a rampage of adding new and dangerous chemicals to their products that can cause serious harm and even eventual death!

Please! Before you go out and eat another cheese burger, read the ingredients list. It is posted on the website, or easily googled. Now here is your homework assignment: Take any ingredients you don't recognize and research them. What you will discover will shock and dismay you. Let me get you started . . .

McDonald's Big Mac Ingredients List

Big Mac® sandwich: Beef Patty Big Mac® Bun Big Mac® Sauce Grill Seasoning Lettuce

Onions (dehydrated) Pickle Slices Processed Cheese Slice

Big Mac® Bun: Enriched wheat flour, water, high fructose corn syrup and/or glucose-fructose and/or sugar, yeast, vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola), salt, sesame seeds, calcium sulphate, calcium propionate, monoglycerides, enzymes, azodicarbonamide, AND MAY CONTAIN ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IN VARYING PROPORTIONS: diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides, BHT, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, wheat starch, calcium peroxide, wheat gluten, sorbitol, dextrin, malted barley flour, ascorbic acid, citric acid, calcium stearate, calcium iodate, silicon dioxide. CONTAINS: WHEAT, BARLEY, SESAME SEEDS

Big Mac® Sauce: Soybean oil, relish [pickles, sugar, glucose-fructose, vinegar, glucose, salt, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, spice extractives), prepared mustard [water, vinegar, mustard seed, salt, sugar, colour (caramel, turmeric), spices], water, frozen egg yolk, vinegar, onion powder, salt, mustard flour, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, spices, garlic powder, hydrolyzed plant protein (corn, soy, wheat gluten), colour (paprika, caramel), calcium disodium EDTA. CONTAINS: MUSTARD, EGG, WHEAT, SOY

Pickle Slices: Cucumbers, water, distilled vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, potassium sorbate, potassium aluminum sulphate, natural flavours (plant source), polysorbate 80, extractives of turmeric (colour).

Processed Cheese Slice: Cheese (Milk, modified milk ingredients, bacterial culture, salt, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, lipase), modified milk ingredients, water, sodium citrate and/or sodium phosphate, salt, potassium sorbate, citric acid, soy lecithin, colour (annatto). CONTAINS: MILK, SOY

KEY: SLIGHTLY TOXIC, GENETICALLY MODIFIED, DANGEROUS, CARCINOGENIC (Cancer Causing)

This is just in a BigMac. I have also done this before with the Chicken Mcnuggets, which are just as alarming. I would advise strongly against ingesting any kind of fast food in general, but recently the chemicals allowed into fast food have gotten worse thanks to the Codex Alimentarius. If you have not heard of this, it is an international code of standards for food and other products. It tells large corporations what substances and at what concentrations are safe for consumers. However, the codex is informed directly by the United Nations and the WHO, both of which have strong ties to major multinational corporations. Just as the history repeats itself, what the corporations in the U.S. have done through the USDA and the FDA, the Codex Alimentarius allows the larger world wide corporations to do: Essentially govern and regulate themselves, by their own standards.

The largest and most profitable industry in the U.S. and on the world scale, unless you count WAR, is the production and sale of pharmaceutical grade drugs. Some of these drugs are safe for human consumption and some are really dangerous. What is certain is that many of these drugs are preservatives, emulsifier, surfactants, and other useful chemicals for industry, that allow them to keep products on the shelves longer, and thus to make more money. Unfortunately for us, the consumer, many of these useful chemicals are really dangerous for us to ingest. Here is where the FDA, USDA, and Codex come in. . .

At first, they tell us the truth, so we trust them and give them authority, then they begin de-regulating industry, and dropping certain health and safety standards, so they can use these dangerous chemicals in their products without us being the wiser. If the FDA says it is safe, then it must be, right? Absolutely not! Not at this point. Most of the senior officials at the FDA and the USDA have worked for the largest corporations, like our good friend Monsanto. In fact, they could be seen at this point to be a direct branch of the multinational corporations they represent.

The same is true of the Codex Alimentarius, but on a much larger scale. It does however, trickle down to the level of the FDA and USDA, because these regulatory agencies draw on the Codex to derive their own product standards.

The scary part is . . . they don't give a fuck about us. That's right, in fact many of the world's elite and those in charge of writing these standards, the heads of these giant corporations, are outspoken about the fact that they believe the world is over-populated. Not only that, but that the over-population of the planet, is their most pressing concern. They tell us that the optimum global population would be roughly 1/2 Billion humans. This concern is already being dealt with through the use of the Codex, amongst other methods.

By progressively deregulating the corporations that make most of our consumer goods, and then actually even recommending chemicals that can now be used as deregulation goes into effect, Codex ensures that these chemicals will be included in our food, shampoos, lotions, and countless other products.

Just keep an eye on it. . . the first time I noticed it was on the back label of a snickers bar I bought in 2009, when the first wave of Codex deregulation took effect. There were a couple of new chemicals tacked on to the list of ingredients in the candy bar. So, I researched them, and found out the damaging effects. Needless to say, I do not consume processed candy, foods, or use synthetic products when I can avoid it at all.

The best advice I can give is that we should all consume strictly locally produced, Organic, and fair trade products. This may literally save your life to take this advice to heart. It may be difficult for some of us to transition to this life style, but let me assure you, it has numerous benefits. Besides staying fit and healthy, most if not all major health concerns disappear quickly. There is a wealth of evidence for this fact.

So next time McDonalds, Wendys, or any other shitty tells you their products are a healthy, balanced food-like product, safe for you to consume . . . tell them to shuv it.