I HATE what we've done to the world

We polluted our water and air, we've compromised our food, we've killed species after species. I'm angry that we've created a world where cancer, allergies, autism, Alzheimer's, asthma and other destructive health conditions thrive.

It's easter weekend. We've allowed the sugar pedlars to prosper with all the sugary garbage everywhere, and this is the weekend where sales of sugar related goods must truly reach an annual frenzy.

Children and adults everywhere will be participating in this annual sugar fest. It's what we do ... our society has embraced the selfish sweet carnival of cavities because it's what we know. It's really amazing if you think about it ... we eat too much refined sugar (hello cancer, diabetes, obesity, inflammation, etc.), we get cavities and have to get fillings (hello mercury and with it - tremors, impaired vision and hearing, paralysis, insomnia, emotional instability, developmental deficits during fetal development, and attention deficit and developmental delays during childhood.) ... it's insane.

We have sacrificed health and nutrition for "what tastes good" (at any expense). Sugar keeps us coming back for more and more, and it's EVERYWHERE. We have become victims of an industry that preys on our weaknesses in the name of profit.

Most of us eat things these days for pleasure and convenience. Humans should be intelligent enough to make smart choices for healthy, nutritious foods to provide our bodies with healthy fuel ... instead, most of us choose eat foods that are genetically modified... full of sugar, salt, artificial colours.

Has society allowed this because we are weak or stupid? Not completely ... it's because we are profit driven. Huge greedy corporations go to ANY lengths to make sure their profits keep rolling in. They make sure their products are produces, heavily promoted, and distributed regardless of health consequences and these products have become parts of or lives.

Change is hard for most people, so we keep doing what we've been doing. We grew up with these foods ... they are what we know ... they are familiar and comforting. It's just easier to keep doing what we've been doing.  The problem with that is "If you keep doing what you've been doing, you'll keep getting what you've been getting" (Cancer, allergies, heart disease, Alzheimer's, asthma, etc.).

Now don't get me wrong ... I'm no saint either. I have substantially cut down on sugar in my diet, but I'm not perfect either.

It's just ridiculous to me friends and loved ones all around us are dying horrible deaths because our society has normalized all these unhealthy things around us. It's a huge injustice to our world and ourselves ... and yet most of us keep right on doing it.

It's SO wrong.