How is it
possible to grow a pound of beef for less than a pound of broccoli?
Answer, it
is not
Fifty
years ankle deep in manure all day long, caked with shit
Thousand
animals an hour sluiced drip, drip,
E coli with
the diesel in the beef spread to the runoff
Inspections
down, pathogens Vonnegut’s consolidated thirteen slaughterhouses
Regulatory
agencies controlled by Cargill, Tyson, Monsanto
Cut
funding to FDA, EPA, demonize the bureaucrat back-pocket former lobbyist
Self-policing,
ignorant to the definition of business ethics
Blood in
the diarrhea, culture stool-eating grin
Microbial
testing, shut-down the plant laugh gorge, No Authority
People descent
Profit ascent
No one
patient to do math; to see the corrosion on the outer rim of the hourglass
Monitoring
like asking Atlas to hold an extra grain of sand
Oh the
costs, who wants a lower gross margin, efficiency absolute
Science
bow to my machines, safety is a perception of chemicals
Soak the
muscle in ammonia to assassinate the bacterium for a kindergartner
Mechanical
farm hands, pink-paste in a grinder
Technology
trumps the notion of a dollar give-a-fuck menu
No
planning, no-fucks to give, pockets empty, not one to offer
No standing
skewed system to the malicious delicious calories
Subsidized,
level the playing field, the definition of corporate welfare
Is the
perpetuation of childhood obesity through engineered
Salt, fat,
and sugar-refined carbohydrates spikes in insulin
Metabolize
sugar washing us in shaking diabetic blindness
The
illusion of the dollar menu
Health
cost, environmental, human fragility to mono-food
How do we
meet the need without compromising the product?
Wal-Mart
is the definition of the race to the bottom
An
experiment gone omni-store solution in a city-block of merchandised smiles
I will
give you a plump chicken breast from a bird that could not stand
At a price
on a sticker that preaches to the convinced two divergent sermons
Sue me
Monsanto over owning the God seed
It is
cheaper to pay the fine than to try to fight it
Scare the sheep,
a million to go to trial, pile the cash on the scales
Eating
healthy only costs more money because of the policy level illusions
The only victory
is possible through nutrition density legislation
To
internalize the discussion of macro-level health into the discussion of food
Taxpayers
pay for the soybean subsidy and the diabetic’s food amputation
If one
misguides the illusion of individual freedom’s then at least take away the farm
bill end of the equation, overturn genetic ownership of seed, let the patent
expire, like some war for a generic drug to cure erectile dysfunction, a
problem created by default
What I put
in my mouth should not be manipulated by a legal team, yet it is
The free
market is bought and sold before the price sticker is ever applied
Before I
ever am able to walk in the store my stomach has been auctioned off
In a board
room then a court room, then a tax bill, then a land fill
Picture
your child’s face in the drive through lane and I ask for rebellion
Never go
again
Pledge
with me, simple decision, cancel the journey of this expedition
Reduce the
rest, compromise at times for balance, but
Fight the
insanity with your wallet
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