Crimes of thirst

We waste water. We waste water growing grain and then using that grain to produce "food" which barely substitutes for anything edible or nutritious. I walked into the kitchenette this morning and saw the usual Friday box of doughnuts. All that sunshine and energy and it becomes a doughnut? A doughnut that some fool will eat (especially that guy 3 cubicles down who likes to make protein shakes and talk about loosing weight) and it will make them heavier. It will take more gas to propel that heavier body around the planet. Why do we do this? Why do we spend our money and our time and energy making things to eat that don't really feed us? Why? I really want to know. Why do we put food into our body which hurts us? Why is there not a law saying that it is illegal to waste water and resources on making food that is not healthy? Why is there not a warning label, just like we have on cigarettes, saying that a food is bad for both the environment you live in and the one under your skin?

We waste water making soda pop. Thousands of liters of water go into making just a few liters of soda pop. Soda pop companies bought up their shelf space in major supermarket chains right after those chains took over all means of distribution and crowded all of the little guys out. So now we had big buildings claiming to sell "food" and those big buildings sold major parts of their interior off to the highest bidder. The bidder packaged various liquids and solids up and labeled them as "food". We buy that shit, stick it in our bodies and wonder why we are so tired all of the time. We wonder why cancer is on the rise. We wonder why we are becoming an obese nation.

We waste water making water. It takes 5 liters of water to make one liter of bottled water. And then there's the carbon emissions wasted on making the bottle and shipping those containers (think how heavy that is... and how much it must take to ship that stuff) full of tap water from other part of the globe to a grocery store. Never mind the pollution caused by printing label which claims that water from some non industrial nation rampant with water born diseases is somehow cleaner and purer than what comes out of my tap. Please. This is Chicago. We figured out clean water over 100 years ago. Just send the dirty bits down river to St. Louis!

It would be easier on our planet and its water if we just ... went to the tap and drank water.