Posted by blufire
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There is no big scary depopulation conspiracy going on with this cereal.
Kirolak you mentioned this was a really cheap cereal that was affordable for the ‘poor’. It is affordable for the poor because they DO use artificial sweetener. Artificial sugars are MUCH cheaper to produce other than using pure cane sugar, honey or other natural sugar. At least they do add sorghum which supplies natural source of iron and other minerals.
If they used real natural sugar and other premium ingredients then the ‘poor’ could no longer afford it. Then there would be an outcry that they are being starved because they can’t afford food and ‘depopulated’ in this manner as well.
I see such a vicious maddening circle with these types of topics.
So what should these companies do? At least there are options to what the public buys.
I am always amazed at what poor people buy at the grocery store and especially those on food stamps and welfare. Did you know food stamps can be used to purchase $4.00 energy drinks? (Monsters, Red Bull and such) . . . . . . amazing and what is more amazing is they buy these over priced drinks.
There are so many affordable options for so many good healthy foods at the grocery stores. . . . . food that is not GMO or at least relatively low in that category. People just refuse to buy these (for the most part) because it actually requires some effort to prepare and cook with these foods.
Instead of expensive sugary cereals, how about oatmeal, the kind that actually needs to be cooked for about 20 minutes (not instant) add a few raisins for extra vitamins and minerals, sweeten with honey or raw brown sugar. If you bought all these ingredients (for the oatmeal) it would provide far more servings for breakfast than one box of high priced, sugary, over-processed cereal. The oatmeal would be much healthier and stick with you longer throughout the day as well.
As far as the planet being overpopulated . . . . yep, sure is. This is one of the reasons why companies have to use mass produced, cheap artificial sweeteners and ingredients just to fill peoples’ tummies.
Our ability to farm enough food to feed the world’s population is diminishing rapidly because of the planet wide climate change and the exponential growth of humanity . . . . and it is getting worse . . . .you think a can of green beans (the cheap ones) costing $1.25 is bad now? What for a couple more months.
I will wait now for the forty eleven hundred posts regurgitating the ‘planted’ info on what I just said is wrong and uncompassionate.