now i’m probably the last person who should be proselytizing about food but my own example is kind of my point. i’m utterly and hopelessly addicted to shitty food. well, not hopelessly. never hopelessly. since high school i’ve opened up my diet a little bit, but really, just to include more shitty food. and i never knew until recently what shitty food is. but i’ve been learning.

MEAT IS BAD FOR YOU. our bodies do not digest meat properly. i’m not bothering to look it up right now, but the way our intestinal tract has evolved suggests that humans didn’t start eating meat as a staple in their diet until recently (like say, 10,000 years ago when we invented farms). all other carnivores, like dogs, wolves, etc, have certain systems in their body for processing meat that we don’t have. meat has almost no nutrients, and even fewer that our body can process. the common wisdom is that meat provides you with protein, and that’s true, but we can get protein from certain vegetables and nuts that our body can more easily process.

corn. corn is in everything and it’s empty calories and it is BAD FOR YOU. chips, pop, cereals, noodles, pastries, cooking oil, cookies, ketchup, caramel, and soup all have corn in them. corn is cheap, government subsidized and easy to grow. it has no nutritional value and it’s main purpose is to fill you up and give you calories. also, corn is what we feed almost all of the animals we eat, making them unhealthy and sick and passing that shit along to us.

bread. it’s fattening and has almost no nutrients. it’s loaded with carbohydrates and gluten. whole wheat bread is a little better, just like light cigarettes are a little better (I’m not comparing bread to cigarettes, i’m just saying the difference between white and whole wheat is negligible). gluten (anything with wheat in it) especially has been linked to a shit load of mental and physical disorders, especially as we get older.

dairy. i’m not even gonna get scientific on this one. we’re drinking the milk of another animal and also processing it into cheese butter and fucking ice cream. figure out how that’s good for you. really the only thing good in milk is vitamin d, which we add in ourselves anyway, and we can get from the sun, or supplements.

so what is good for you? really the only thing that i’m 100% sure of is raw food. meaning fruits, vegetables, and seeds and nuts. raw seeds and nuts. if you roast them, you lose nutrients. if you cook vegetables, you lose nutrients. this is all you need to eat to be healthy.

but don’t listen to a word i say, because i ate at kfc today and then came home and made ichiban noodles and later had some shreddies and an apple. so according to my own health guide the only healthy thing i ate was an apple. and as much as i want to change, i am insanely addicted to shitty food. i’m just saying what i think i know about this stuff. you can look it up for yourself.

quick story to end it off. i was talking to this girl i met a few times today. she’s a raw food vegan (just to be clear, she isn’t where i got any of this information), she’s lived alone in the mountains for a couple years of her life, she has tattoos all over her neck and body and she’s a lesbian. really nice girl. really beautiful too, never seen her wear make-up. anyways, someone else brought up vegetarianism, and she says “have you ever been dumpster diving?” now since i was apparently the only person at the table who hadn’t heard of this (except in the case of homeless people) i sat back and took the conversation in. apparently it’s common practice to go to the dumpsters behind grocery stores and take the vegetables and fruit and tofu and things they throw away. a lot of it is still good, i have no doubt of that and it’s very expensive to eat raw food, so i understand the necessity for people with a lower income.

its fucked up though. i didn’t say anything because i’m sure she’s heard it all before, but it’s unsanitary (…). and i know that if she had the option of completely fresh fruits and vegetable every day at a reasonable price she would take it. and that infuriates me. governments could just as easily subsidize the growing of fruits and vegetable as they do for corn and meat, but they don’t. it makes the entire world sick and addicted to shitty food. i don’t know, hearing this dumpster diving thing from this girl just floored me. and the crazy part is that she is without a doubt eating much, much, much healthier food then i am. from a dumpster. because i eat at mcdonalds. ok, i’m done. i don’t know what i said but i’m done.