Let Them Eat Junk | Capitalism has never managed food efficiently until now!

Let Them Eat Junk | Robert Albritton | Capitalism has never managed food efficiently until now!

The largest scientific experiment ever?

The other day, the survey result that the blood mercury concentration of Koreans in the news is more than three times more than the United States, 5 times higher than Germany was reported. Although heavy metals such as mercury are mainly absorbed through marine products, silk heavy metals are not the only harmful substances that humans live and are unwilling to eat. Indeed, chemical substances that we absorb mainly in eating and drinking, ramen, sweets, processed foods such as hamburgers and colas are also accumulated in the human body and may become time bombs when they do not know when they will develop an explosion . If you are lucky you will enjoy the rope, but if you do not get along, you can react with other chemicals decades later and suffer from fatal and painful diseases like cancer.

Various chemical substances are used for the taste and shape of processed foods that are readily available in general fast food restaurants and scattered stores in the surroundings, but when such chemical substances are used There are few substances that have been definitely tested as to what effect they will take if taken for a long time. According to the policy director of the Environment Protection Fund, Rick Smith, "We are the guinea pig who participated in the largest, uncontrolled scientific experiment in history".

Absurdity surrounding 'food'

For what purpose did we jump in a fierce competition that is not different from modern slaves? One of the reasons is to live long in health by eating good food. Some of you answer to this answer whether people are so simple, is there anyone who can buy here without eating rice? A meal is the best happiness for a person and it can be an indicator of the status and authority of the person who eats.

So why do we continue to eat bad food for the body with such hard-earned money? Why do we have to leave the most fundamentally essential food to humans rather than consumer's health to a cruel market economy that gives priority to corporate profits? Why do companies adequately fulfill toxicity tests of chemical substances added to foods consumed by consumers? Also, why does the state leave such a situation as it is, even the scientists who do research to contribute to the prosperity of mankind will stand by the company, not the consumer, to defend the tobacco? On the other hand, on the other hand, wherever you go, you can easily obtain various foods, people eat a lot and throw away so much food, they are obese and overweight in food richness To struggle. Meanwhile, WHO estimates that the population of 3 billion people worldwide suffer from starvation and other nutritional imbalances, and every five seconds in the 21st century one of five children under five years will die of starvation How should we believe the fact?

After World War II, food is already enough to cultivate the population of the whole world to capitalize and concentrate chemical fertilizers and agricultural production, but actually the distribution of food is not that fair value. When farmers and workers who produce food are hungry, nutritional imbalances, pesticides that are harmful to various human bodies (use was prohibited in most developed countries, but in poor countries it is used for the benefit of multinational corporations So, who is to blame the reality bothered by illness?

Capitalism has never managed food efficiently until now!

Robert Albritton's 『Let them eat junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity』 describes the irrationality and inconsistency of the agriculture and food supply of the capitalist regime which simultaneously produced hunger and obesity in overflowing food. Now, the limits and problems of capitalism that began to appear gradually will be limited to silk food, but since the most important thing to people is more food than anything else, many of the subjects raised in this book The problem of can not be handed over in spite of itself. Also, do you sell a discount at a supermarket and the eyes will break much affordable food? In other countries, every 5 seconds the child will starve and die, so it really can not be believed. When I pick out such facts, it seems that I was truly blessed that people born in Korea, it was born during the richest period of history. Because this richness is not eternal.

The Albritton claim is definitive about such a problem. He argues that capitalism has never managed food efficiently so far. Along with that, the basic condition of the food system necessary for the prosperity of mankind is produced so as to minimize damage to the ecology of the earth and enhance the health of the environment for future generations It is worthy to be offered to each individual the superior quality and sufficient amount of food produced in this way and that our own identity and the possibilities of life we ​​can eat and drink I will explain the fundamental conditions of the food system as it has its roots. Along with that, capitalism criticizes real problems and their causes without mercy, considering only the interests of the company, rather than the health and benefits of consumers.

In this book, junk foods created by indifference of capitalism are sustainable current food systems collateralized by the future, absurdity of capitalism where the poor become more poor, terrorism where food is a weapon, capitalism Modern people who are addicted to starvation and obesity, sugar and meat, and food additives, agricultural workers are poor, only to the miserable reality, the current food system to destroy the environment, power is more powerful than liberal democracy It can be a factory that revolves and dominates the world we live in, such as a strong company, and it is exposed to sharp criticism about the truth of capitalism. And also short-term and long-term plans to overcome the crisis of the current food system are also explored Albritton as it is. However, looking at his countermeasure, if I dare to say my idea, the doubts and worries over that way, whether realistically it is really possible, is too idealistic is outweighed. Little capitalism is deeply bitten into us, not only there is no end to the desire and desire of a person, but also the desire that does not draw deeply to the potential desire is made and garnished fashion and sell goods Capitalism It will be easy for the meeting to come down from the authority of God.

The interest of the food company is not the consumer's health but the consumer's wallet!

In fact, as anyone knows, the instinct for a company to pursue profits is still the same. And the indecisive attitude of the consumers who follow the enterprise in a way without thinking is also a problem. However, the important problem here is that consumers who do not get enough information are not simply wasting money, but consumption activities that are indispensable for their health.

We work hard to eat better food, earn money, but in the end, we can not escape from the temptation of advertising, convenience, sweet and oily taste addicted to long-term health can hurt the food or fast food Fill three pieces. Food companies, especially those who know that eating habits are not hereditary but are determined by environmental factors when they are young, such as nurturing, market more aggressively to young children. How much do parents know about the food they eat and how they cope appropriately for the health of their family? Although obesity is increasing in Korea, we think that obesity is simply overgrown by eating too much. But in fact, few people know that nutritious hunger can be seen by people who are fattened by junk food. The fact that junk food is high in calories and nutritional value is bad (so the body needs more food to supplement its deficient nutrients, and this vicious cycle eventually leads to obesity) Is it reflecting.

A food company and a tobacco company are totally forcing individuals to pay a huge social cost which may occur due to ingestion of low quality food or smoking, It fulfills their desires. Recently, there are also donations to charities as well as charities to beautify the corporate image, but ultimately, such things are highly intelligent for the enterprise's ultimate corporate interests It's just a strategy. A long time ago, the advertising company in the United States has been studying about the influence of advertisement on the human brain, as it used to use television in the communism brainwashing education in the communist society, Consumers who live in the flood of living will live without thinking anything, it will become a good bait for the company. Many consumers hit their wallets, not zombies to eat human flesh, while becoming capitalistic zombies that consume and accept loans when they are short.

Is capitalism alternative possible?

Historically, capitalism has been overwrapped by universal solutions for communism, experiencing the Cold War era. I believe that capitalism at the time believes that it can solve all the problems of that era and still many people believe it or not, in systems other than capitalism, I have not even thought about it. However, after reading 『Let them eat junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity』, I am convinced that many ripples will occur in such an easy and conservative idea.

In what way, it is clear that communism in which resources are allocated by necessity is theoretically an ideal society. In such a world, everyone can have what they need in the same way, or both, so it is a very fair society. But people will never own enough resources as they need them. This is the point that people differ from other animals. Even if you have money that you can not write up until you die by calling the ship, you continue to eat and drink, continue to board the other people and try to collect property. So even in the future far away, as long as the present human beings have been cleaned cleanly and new human beings are not appearing, the more complete and perfect communist society is impossible as the human beings who have already dyed the joy of reason. Also, it has not been hidden in history already that it is impossible to morally improve people. Communism in the history of mankind will remain only in memories of the distant old pristine communist society where people did not yet know the concept of reason.

People have the shortage and stupidity that people have, noticing quickly the disasters caused by the potential unremitting greedy to everyone God's life, justice, equality and asceticism, a variety of perfection Although it imitated the appearance of the state, even its new was used to satisfy politics and power, desire. This is also incomplete but the capitalist regime is the same.

However, what matters is not just to criticize the problems of capitalism, but to recognize imperfections and inequality of capitalism for the future of our descendants and human beings and to improve It is. Criticism and dissatisfaction of redistribution of wealth has already been raised since the early years of capitalism, and many capitalist countries have been making efforts to improve while increasingly introducing socialist policies against this. It is true that capitalism has also changed, evolved and changed significantly from the initial capitalism at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Nevertheless, the imbalance and inequality of the departed part of capitalism has not disappeared, but rather the gap between rich and poor has been expanded to the issue of the gap between rich and poor among states. The problem of exploitation has also expanded to a global problem between state-to-state, large-scale enterprises and the poor, beyond the regional and personal problems between capitalists and workers. The site of exploitation Marx still witnessed in the 19th century remains as it is, living in developed countries and big companies, people deserving to live a little, still alive around the world, and slaves of children of poor countries The conversion also disappeared.

Cheap food and cheap consumer consciousness pays cost

Everything comes at a cost. As we bought cheap at the supermarket, was there any idea that someone would pay that price? Everyone knows finely that wages and work environments in China, Africa and South American farms, and other developing countries are very poor, but again we are in other countries. Have you forgotten the tragic death of labor agitator Jeon Tae Il yet? Everyone also implicitly agree with the motto of all capitalist and capitalist states, "Apres moi le Deluge!" Originally written by Marx in the 1860's. As in the past Communist revolution, when all these problems can not be resolved unequivocally, it is good to introduce this earth back into the flame of the revolution together with new ideas to replace capitalism. It may be that a revolution will probably come from all the countries that have been exploited, not urban civil revolution as in the past.

If so, you tried imagining once as well. A new world that is new to another system that comes after capitalism and democracy. Just as it was difficult to imagine a society in which the people living under the Joseon Dynasty and the medieval feudal system were released from democracy and identity that capitalism and the king over the vote of the people are liberated, It will not be easy to imagine a new system, after being buried in capitalism and coming to the next world. However, someday the second Marx that brings such a pioneering new revolutionary idea is born in the world. If you have that, what kind of system would you like to say? What is the ideal society you say? What kind of society is the peaceful and happy society you dream about?

For those who like the economy like me, the parts that explain the abstract capitalism of the beginning of this book were hard to understand for those like cows. And it is not a book that pages move lightly overall. While showing each contradictory reality we live, we showed an inconvenient truth that we all forgot, no, I wanted to forget. So you can give discomfort to readers. But if you are a reader who wants to know the truth, you do not expect how uncomfortable or uncomfortable about that part. Although it is not too light but readable content, if you think deeply and understand it and go beyond it, we live in a thorough capitalist society at the center of consumption understand the world more accurately and judge it correctly We have enough knowledge to help. After reading this book, I will seriously accept Albritton's firm assertiveness that "will it be a matter to deposit basic necessities such as food at a fickle market price?"

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