Unleaded & Unscented
Posted on September 1, 2008
Remember how simple it was to buy fuel for your car? There was one brand called gasoline or petrol, but today you go to the pump station and have to decide upon unleaded regular, unleaded silver and unleaded platinum or they come with numbers like unleaded supreme 98 and super 95. Why is the lead out? Why did they ever put it in? Apparently gasoline has no lead to begin with? That was when you could buy one kind: gasoline. Simple, easy and no nonsense. When and why did they put the lead in just to take it out again? And why does it now cost more to remove what was not there in the first place and later added to further remove? The answer lies somewhere with environmental issues but the question remains.
Orange juice has always been one of my favorite drinks. Delicious cold and fresh and store bought tastes like real freshly squeezed orange juice. But now, we have with pulp and without pulp. So now we must decide if we prefer the juicy natural pulp or less pulp or no pulp at all? To make matters even more confusing, calcium enriched was now added! A picture of a glass of milk on the orange juice carton is shown. If I wanted to drink a whole glass of milk, I would surely not make the error of grabbing the orange juice carton instead of the milk carton. And I don\'t like the idea of adding calcium to my orange juice because now I have to buy without calcium in my milk to avoid overdose! Come to think about it, both the orange juice and milk cartons are identical?! Did the carton manufacturer one day make the mistake of pouring the milk into the orange juice and hence the birth of calcium enriched orange juice?
So, when did they put in the pulp to take out the pulp and then add the calcium to become like a glass of milk, so you get your daily overdose of vitamins? Also why all this new and improved when it is exactly the same product many years ago which had been changed to appeal to the public and then made new again to make the consumer think that they are buying something better than before.
When I buy hand soap, I used to buy hand soap. Now I have to decide upon twenty different brands of liquid soap in a variety of colors and smells. I nearly escaped this purchase decision dilemma until antibacterial arrived! I had no idea we needed antibacterial in our hand soap to get them clean? What to do? Oh dear, now we have regular, scented, unscented, sensitive skin, chaffed and rough hands, truck drivers hands and baby hands and now antibacterial. They forgot with bacteria!
The cereal isle is just as bad if not worse. To decide between organic and healthful with a variety of grains is like a job. It takes nearly a lifetime to find the right cereal. There are the ones for children with monsters and marshmallow and then the ones to control cholesterol, added vitamins, reduced calories, with and without fruits and nuts. Every imaginable combination had been produced for the grocery isle, however they forgot to include roller skates! And yet had they kept cereal at it\'s original ingredients was the most healthful of all!
The same goes for nearly every product we see on the super market shelves today. Things are added without warning us and then they are removed for our better health and vitamins added for our own good to be replaced with fake butter and fake sugar because we are too fat to buy white bread which is now really brown bread in disguise to look like white bread so our kids will eat it! Had we never refined bread so much to make it bad for us, we would like the brown color bread! After all this we have to load up the car with plastic bags full of groceries and food packaging we will eventually have to either recycle because it saves our forests or strangles fish or both and drive back home stopping on the way to buy silver unleaded lavender scented with added bran petrol!
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