Greenwitch

This is a clip from veronikas blog, as i felt it needed highlighting again.

This week I read an article in Wellbeing magazine which listed the top 25 grocery items bought in Australian supermarkets (from the 1990s).

Bear in mind that this result won’t be that different in other so called civilised countries…it to me, incomprehensibly, has coke (or pepsi or diet coke) mentioned seven times (different sized bottles or cans). Other ‘necessary’ food stuffs included chocolate by different companies on several occasions.

The only things remotely described as‘food’ on the list were tinned beetroot and baked beans. Out of 25 items?

1. Coca cola 375ml

2. Coca cola 1 litre

3. Coca cola 2 litre

4. Diet coke 375ml

5. Cherry ripe (chocolate)

6. Nestle’s condensed milk

7. Tally ho cigarette papers

8. Mars bar

9. Kit kat

10. Crunchie bar

11. Eta 5 star margarine, salt reduced (must be healthy?)

12. Baked beans

13. Tinned beetroot

14. Diet coke 1 litre

15. Bushell’s tea

16. Cadbury dairy milk

17. Pepsi cola 375 ml

18. Coca cola 1.5 litre

19. Corn flakes

20. Maggie two minute chicken noodles

21. Generic brand lemon drink

22. Panadol tablets (to hide the pain of all the above assaulting the body no doubt)

23. Meadow lea margarine

24. Lemonade

25. Mrs Macregor’s margarine

It doesn’t take a genius to see that out there in the REAL world, we ain’t gonna be here in seven generations. Never fear about the impact of global warming knocking us off through drought or heat, Coca cola will erode all remaining viable brain cells before then.I heard an interview with Jamie Oliver last week talking about some woman giving him a hard time for his ‘good’ food campaign…he noticed her infant, under 12 months, in a pram with Coke in its bottle. Says it all, really