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Fighting Corporate Control Of My Body! (Motivational)

Monday, August 13, 2007

One of my biggest motivators is fighting the "corporate ownership of my body" to borrow a friend's phrase. There are zillions of CEO's out there looking to turn over a dime at my expense. The mass-marketing of insanely unhealthy foods truly incenses me! Let's profit off of all these doofus consumers and THEN let's profit off of their MEDICAL TREATMENT! We've got a pill to take care of you! (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes management, etc) Ooops, side effects from that pill...? Here's another pill to take care of that! Ooops...surgery time? Step right this way...!

All the while profiting off of the uninformed public!

I have a burning desire not to give these corporations any more money that necessary and that starts and ends with what I put in my mouth. I rankle when at the supermarket I see shelves stretching off into the distance with a multitude of beverages in every color under the sun when ALL WE REALLY NEED IS WATER!

And the corporate world has already begun to capture major profits off of WATER! Get ready for air, people...clean air? Here you go, that'll be five dollars for five puffs!

End rant...! :-)

or...maybe NOT: Additional Thoughts

How did we get started down this unhealthy path of eating such garbage?

Pay attention to your media...print, audio, video...! Garbage is EVERYWHERE! And touted as the coolest stuff around!

In Australia they had an epidemic of speed-related crashes and deaths. They decided to do something about it, so they assigned an advertising company the job of creating a campaign to persuade folks not to speed.

Very inventive folks, these advertising people!

They came up with an advertising campaign which took a page out of a Quentin Tarantino movie in which young sexy babes pull up in their car next to Kurt Russell's behemoth on four wheels. They crook their pinky finger at him and say: "Woooo...big engine, little winky!" and zoom off into the sunset.

So: billboards sprung up everywhere along the same line: Drive fast and prove how un-sexy you are! Drive fast and show the world how insecure you are!

Same thing on the radio.

Same thing on TV.

Guess what?

It worked! Everybody slowed down!

So much for our "freedom of choice"...?

Don't you KNOW that the SAME type of success could be accomplished in persuading all of us about the benefits of healthy eating, healthy activity?

My RAGE centers around WHY ISN'T THIS HAPPENING!?!?

Why? Where would the PROFIT be?

I ranted a bit in my blog below too...FWIW...lol

Sorry to grab the podium folks, but this is something that really makes me crazy AND something I use to motivate myself: I look at my healthy lifestyle as a means of FIGHTING CORPORATE CONTROL OF MY BODY!
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  • BON_TEMPS
    "The love of money is the root of all evil"

    I think it all boils down to money. Same thing with advertising milk substitutes for babies. Companies make more money if we all have to buy the stuff and all the accessories that go along with it. Getting what we need from nature doesn't put money into the pockets of others as much as us having to buy, buy, buy.

    Thank you for your blog, I also find it frustrating that the government contradicts itself.
    3051 days ago
  • TRAVELNISTA
    Excellent Blog! I get so angry each time I see a new ad that claims to do something wonderful for our bodies. They are all nothing but a bunch of false claims and false hopes, yet we constantly fall for it.

    The advertisers are no better with our foods. One of my most recent pet peeves are these waters that have protein in them. Come on people, why do you want to ingest nothing but a bunch of chemicals? If you need protein or extra protein go to the real source not a bunch of chemical compositions. Most of the foods for promoting weightloss whether it be cereal, cookies, meal replacement bars, diet salad dressing, etc is just really nice advertising to fool us into ingesting chemicals. We need to return to the basics, whole foods, the real stuff not the pre-packaged crap. It may be more convenient but it is certainly not healthy no matter how they spin it.
    3102 days ago
  • ROSIET3
    In Canada we have public health care, too. Why doesn't our government figure out the costs and do something. A lot of subsidies to big agriculture are different here, so much so that we are importing more and more because US Beef or Pork or Chicken is cheaper!!. Then we rush to try and make our "agri-industry" as profitable as yours, using the same techniques. Bah!

    3235 days ago
  • FALCONETTE
    I wouldn't say it's crazy but a mere fact. The profit has become today's new religion though now when I think about it, it's been around for ages. It's just better concealed these days as Don pointed out - it's hiding behind "cool" and even behind "it's good for your health" (e.g. bottled water etc.). Very sad. And were giving in even though we think that we are smarter than that.
    3249 days ago
  • SPARKLINGHOPE
    You have some good thoughts that I agree with! I have trouble understanding the world or America today... We have become a country of many different illnesses that then are treated with meds that cause yet another problem/illness to be treated by yet another med??? Crazy
    3261 days ago

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