This article from Salon.com does a great job at reiterating just how scary our food systems and agriculture practices are in this country. Unless you grow your own food, or get to know farmers whose farmland you have seen, there is very little at the supermarket that humans should actually eat. It is so sad that there are so many places in the world where people are starving and they are living in such unsanitary conditions; and here in the U.S. there is a glut of food and clean water, live stock and agriculture; there is too much to be consumed. In order to keep making more, faster, cheaper, and more efficient, we cramp animals together and pump them full of anti-biotics and hormones, we spray our vegetables with horrible awful things to change the way they ripen, and kill all signs of life growing on them. Now we are becoming resistant to anti-biotics, our vegetables are making us sick, the hormones are doing horrible things to our bodies, we treat the animals so inhumanely, it’s shameful. It seems that somewhere between giant agriculture companies and giant pharmaceutical companies we have lost total autonomy over our bodies. That is really scary. What is most sad is that different groups and experts can continue to bring this information to us, they can continue to shed light on this very serious problem, and the population still refuses to demand safe food and better monitoring of our pharmaceutical companies. It’s mind boggling how apathetic the human race is.