The Grand Scam

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Published on Sunday, 17 July 2011 01:39

Written by David L Norris

I was watching TV and this cartoon came to mind. So I drew it while it was fresh in my mind. Corporate tycoons manufacturer food to maximize addictive qualities, removing nutrients, starving people half to death, yet fattening them, causing disease and sickness, to sell them medications with horrendous side effects requiring further medication while showing them poorly produced advertising to remind them to eat and take their meds.

The concept is that nutrient poor, fatty, sugary foods filled with weird chemicals are causing much of society to overeat.  The lack of nutrients in the diet and addition of highly addictive foods and drinks cause a neverending craving for more and more food.  People often stop eating a meal because its physically impossible to continue eating.  One more pizza slice and its no longer possible to breathe. Not because they have any concept of satisfaction aside from the pure amusement of eating itself.

This collection of garbage food and chemicals is added to our bodies as excess fat and other things we don't need to function in modern society.  It weighs us down the more we consume.  Meanwhile, we are having to counteract the effects of bad food and of course the logical next step is nutritional supplements and strong medications rather than real food.  So the medications are slowly tightening the noose around our neck while the food we eat is pulling the rope taut.  All the while the mega-multinational corporations are bombarding us with constant advertising to remind us to continue to overeat and take our medication happily provided at extreme expense by them.