Cheap: The New Genocide...

 
Mitchell and Monica...

Matt...

I Don't Stand Around Fire Expecting Not To Sweat.

This post has been reigning heavily on me like the weighted back squat that seems to take much longer than it rightfully should to lock out at the top. I figured, be it the holiday season, and soon after the biggest shopping day of the year, it's a good time to come out of the basement.

If I so desired I could phone up a local pizzeria shout an order out and with any luck and a coupon catch a couple pies for under $10 in thirty minutes or less. Or I could stroll my happy ass through any number of drive thrus and get a garbage bag full of food, nothing costing more than $0.99.

Americans are presented with 4000 calories per day. And man do our addictions run deep. So deep we will do anything to get at them. Satisfy as many of them as possible. And always by means of the lowest bidder. We temporally find a fix for this addiction no matter who we massacre in the process, all because we are paying a prevailing market price, not what something is really worth...how long do you think that frigid ass system will last?

The pizza industry alone boasts monetary exchanges around 36 billion annually. One out of twenty-four cows in the world are milked just for the mozzarella. And tomatoes have been so genetically modified in fields scientifically created to produce unbelievable amounts of sauce that you can almost see them from space. And yet with this much food...America has obesity as an epidemic, and other countries starve, or commit suicide.

With mafia style tactics, the food industry is wiping out the existence of "local farmers" all over the world. Treating them as competition. Some farms are just run out of town because they cannot keep up with the demand or they can't make ends meet with the meager returns they receive for their product. And these are the lucky ones. If you remember back here we posted about farmers feeling so pressured to support their families they took their own lives for the insurance money...and it gets worse.

Kids farm chocolate in Ghana Cocoa fields, and Haitians can no longer afford cooking oil because our tastes are to strong and we take more than our share. Then prices rise. And the reason all this happens? The reason for these worldwide atrocities isn't the fault of Domino's or Taco Bell...its stimulated by our addiction combined with our belief we are somehow deserved of something for nothing. Its a single mans fault compounded by majority mentality.

Not only does our food addiction cause the internal death of us, and our external mutation, but it now causes the disease, famine, and over farming of countries all over the world. If your own personal health, and the health of everyone you know wasn't enough motivation to eat the way were designed. Then maybe the raping the world to feed your addiction is motivation enough. If not your a selfish asshole, and nothing else. 

The reason food retailers charge mere pittance for their product isn't because that's what it's worth. It's because our addiction stimulated mounds of competition between each company, which Dominoed to the suppliers of the food companies, who then adjusted everything all the way down to the family with udders in hand. Now there are over a billion laborers earning less than $1 per day because we want value meals.

Is it not horribly sobering that the solution to world hunger could simply be stop American food addiction. Not boycott food companies supporting this behavior, no you would have to boycott yourself. Rather allowing them to charge enough for their product so the somalian collecting the crops for our supper can catch more than a dollar a day.....But I could be wrong.

If I truly had the solution I would be doing more instead of sitting behind a computer writing cute little quips, and off shoots that get the occasional ohhh's, and ahhh's. If I truly had the solution I would be feeding some skeleton of a kid you always see on those $17 a day sponsor ad's. If I truly had the solution maybe I would be running from the pizza chain mafia because I stumbled on the truth. The truth that our hunger is the root of all that is wrong. Hunger for food and control. He who controls the food, starves the world he dislikes, and feed the others into submission....but what the hell do I know?

Strength:

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For Time, and Score:

*On a twenty minute clock;

"Annie"

-Double Unders

-Sit-ups

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10-Pull-ups

8-Box Jumps

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Comments

[mikala]

looks like fun!!

[Ken & Cledith]

Tonight we were able to observe the team of trainers come together & talk about processes & goals. I simply want to acknowledge this GREAT team of people who put helping others at the top of their list of goals as they look at 2011! We are so blessed to have this group in front of us each day we show up - displaying exceptional care for people is an expectation that comes out loud & clear - that doesn't necessarily mean we hear a bunch of pleasantries but that we are pushed to be stronger, go faster, work harder to be better versions of us.
We want our PCF team to know how grateful we are for each of them!

[chas]

Ken and Cledith, you make it easy and fun! When I think of fashioning my life after those I know give without recieving it is the two of you.
Thank you

[Mo]

I too agree with Ken & Cledith. We are truly blessed with the trainers at PCF and I thank you for dedicating your time to help better us all!

9:59/6 rds feel like I need a redo

I left my necklace at 5am...if someone sees it and can hold it for me or give it to #10 I'd appreciate it.

[jb]

Ken and Cledith..I believe it should be us who are truly grateful with the trust we are warded by everyone everyday, and the ability to share all the exciting times we do together

Monica-got ur necklace

[runmelrun]

6:37 PR
8 rounds

[NP]

8:5x M
7 rounds

[MJ]

5:49 (anchored)
8 rounds

[Amelia]

14 something, but RX! First attempt at doing double unders in a wod. :) Great Class at noon. Melanie... way to go beating the young buck!! LOL Tyler... well, you're just funny! Always like to have you in class. Kerry, awesome DU and way to kill the whole wod! Mikala... you always rock it! Steve, Patrick and Jeff... great job!

[Kerry]

Annie 7:47 12 rounds!

[vicki]

9:5? 6rds(m)

Bart, where are you?

[Marc]

7:16
7 m

[Mindy]

9:33(I think??), 4 rds (m)
DU..1min..1min..1min..30sec..30sec

[Dana]

9:41 Annie
5 rounds (m)

[min]

6:11 Annie...8 rounds

430 class thx for letting me jump in, I appreciate it!

[Dave]

11:01 Annie...first time RX!!!
6 rounds.

[JN]

Annie 11:06(m)
2rds(m)

[Chuck T]

10:46 (no too happy about that)
6 rds

[kara MIKOLAJEWSKI]

6:38 PR-Annie
6 rds
I too appreciate all of our trainers at PCF and all the sacrifices they make for me and all of us at PCF. Now, and always I feel especially blessed to be a part of PCF!!! Thanks for all that you do for us trainers!!