DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: What you don’t know can harm you, beginning with your next meal

I’ll be honest, I stopped eating fast food years ago save for the occasional Taco Bell that I try to avoid at all costs.

It is not just about the obesity in America, it is about the questions I have about what is going into the food here.

Several weeks ago, National Cheeseburger Day raised eyebrows when McDonald’s, Wendy’s and even Burger King jumped on the .5 cent, .50 cent and maybe even free come and eat our burgers until you bust bandwagon.

One person I heard said she attempted to give her dog a piece of meat from one of the burger fast track food chains and the dog not only wouldn’t touch it but was insulted. 

But let’s get into the meat (pun intended) of this little foodie paradise article, because it turns out what you don’t know could be way more than you imagined.

Let’s start with some factoids regarding food banned in other countries, but still making money in the good ‘ol US of A.

Gatorade is banned in Japan because of artificial dye.

Farm-raised salmon is not legal in Australia and New Zealand due to dye used to color it pink and it also contains methyl mercury, dioxins, and antibiotics.

Artificial coffee creamer is illegal in some European countries due to saturated fat.

Frosted Flakes (go Tony the Tiger) has been made illegal in Europe and Japan because of an unhealthy preservative being used. 

Skittles are banned in Norway and Sweden because of high levels of artificial dye.

Mountain Dew contains brominated vegetable oil containing bromine causing headaches, memory loss and impaired balance. 

Instant mashed potatoes are banned in countries because they contain preservatives known as butylated hydroxy anisole, which is found in rubber and wax food packaging and a human carcinogen.

Bread products including Pillsbury bread sticks contain azodicarbonamide used to make yoga mats and shoe soles. 

US pork contains a drug known as ractopamine – a chemical banned in over 160 countries.

American chicken is banned by the European Union because it is washed in chlorine.

American ground beef is banned by the European Union because it uses pink slime that includes ammonia gas for antimicrobial properties and can destroy your gut. 

Other items Americans know, and love include Pop-Tarts, Swiss Rolls, Fruity Pebbles, Captain Crunch and Nutri Grain bars, big no!

Look at the numbers on the produce at the grocery too. 

First let’s begin with the fact people complain a lot about the fruit at Walmart as not being real. 

One woman on social media said, “This mango feels fake. This is GMO and I am going to give it a big no.”

Look for the number designations 9, 8 and 4.

A 4 means it has pesticide from a regular farm and there are no regulations on what they do to grow that produce.

An 8 on the sticker means the produce is genetically modified and has been altered in some way at the genetic level or using pesticide and chemicals to cause an alteration down the line. 

By the way, the term “GMO” is going out the window so you will no longer see that on your food, the new term is Bioengineered, pay attention. 

And finally, number 9 means organic, but nope, not what you think it is. 

It is no longer safe apparently and the gentleman explaining this said in 1996 a chemical called MCP or Methylcyclopropene, a known petrol chemical, began being used to preserve the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. 

In 2002 the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration deemed it just fine to put this into our food supply. 

Not so fine actually because MCP is a blocker in the food supply that blocks microorganisms in our food supply and causes a problem in the body. 

Eating this also blocks the natural microorganisms in the colon and that means blocking probiotics important for the immune system and organisms in the colon that help digestion – this sets the human body up for disease. 

And the problems continue because this affects the pineal gland, which messes with melatonin, which messes with immunity. 

Oh, and the pineal gland is also a big help with your sensory perception and if that is off, well, one thing leads to another in the world of the fuel you put into your body. 

Another consumer said watch for packaging that reads “grass fed ground beef.” 

All beef is grass fed up to a point, look for the label that reads “grass finished” otherwise the cow was possibly taken to a feed lot and fattened up with all manner of yuck.

And now, for the most disgusting part of all, the amount of farmland Bill Gates owns in America. 

That would be 270,000 acres in 19 states and he is crazy busy trying to figure out how to control everything by owning it and destroying the natural chain of food production. 

This computer dude (notice I did not mention farmer or scientist) is the largest private landowner in the United States.

According to one reporter, a large farm is about 445 acres, so why does Gates need 70,000 acres in Louisiana, 48,000 acres in Arkansas, 25,750 in Arizona and the list goes on. 

Note to self, I wonder if there are any of those so-called tunnels under any of this Gates-owned farmland too?

A  South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson requested the House Agricultural Committee bring Gates in to testify about all this purchased land. 

Johnson said he doubts the Dems in Congress are “anywhere near concerned about the Chinese and Gates purchases.”

For a man who doesn’t believe in farming and ranching Gates sure has taken a keen interest in the land this country has used to produce food since its inception.

In fact, his big push for engineered meat like beef and other livestock kind of has you scratching your head about the quasi-mad scientist’s need for more land stat!!!! 

Johnson added, “Gates doesn’t want to just serve the marketplace; he wants to impose values” saying no American should be eating red meat and in developed countries nobody should be eating meat unless it is grown in a laboratory (see it does reek of mad scientist).

I looked it up, Gates never finished his undergraduate degree. He dropped out after three semesters to start Microsoft. 

When he was there he was in a pre-law major, and took mathematics and graduate level computer science courses. 

Enough said, oh one more thing. I guess I could be a brain surgeon, I wanted to get my medical degree, any takers come by my office. 

Billy Boy seems to be living proof we can fake it until we think we made it – money isn’t everything, but it does buy a heck of a lot of farmland.

And lest you forget, Klausy Schwauby, my favorite, and his “merry band of globalists” over at the World Economic Forum plan to eliminate meat production (didn’t that have something to do with cow gas)?

Meanwhile, small farms are being run out of business by endless regulations that keep coming down from the government. 

We can stop it by sending these lifelong politicians back home and bring in Americans who love America. 

And it is time we did that now because this destruction of agriculture and the like is also happening in China and Europe (Spain, Belgium, Holland), and Argentina. 

Oh, and let’s not forget the ranting of the likes of John Kerry talking about these 20 countries with the highest emissions, didn’t he retire? 

Oh wait, he’s a WEF puppet. 

I like this one statement I heard, “The academic mind always has real answers, but never in the real world.”

Can you say global bureaucratic quasi totalitarian system of governing – destroy the farmers – we can stop it. Demand your politicians do the job or go home.

The end goal – aka agenda 2030 is control the food, control the people, or just adle their brains so they don’t care. 

In closing, I want to spin this little tale for the week – Americans are private citizens and that means the government should stay out of our private business and no minimal about us. 

The government we vote into office are OUR public servants and we should know everything about them. 

I still say we are undergoing a worldwide PUNKING!

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net