Give it up

Many nasty tricks are used by Food Giants to make you overeat. Adding lots of fat, sugar and salt are obvious ones. They know that if they add enough fat, sugar and salt Americans will eat almost anything --- George Bush's favorite pig-out food --- pork rinds [(George Bush senior not junior, the one we're currently stuck with)]. But potato chips aren't much better. They should really be called fat with a small amount of potato added.

The real dirty tricks that food companies use to make you overeat are more subtle and don't jump out at you when you read the label --- things like "natural flavoring" --- which sounds very benign, but it can be almost anything. It can be nucleic acid from chromosomes of cells, extracts of yeast cells or waste beef or worse. Rabbi Eidlitz from the Kosher Information Bureau in north hollywood, California, reported that some ingredients with names like "natural" colors have been known to contain monkey intestines and "artificial flavors" from ground-up cats. So if you like to eat cats [and monkeys], you'll know what to look for. One thing for sure, it's there to make your taste buds go crazy, so that if you eat just one bite, you're hooked and have to keep right on eating until the bag is empty. These compounds have only one purpose --- to make the Food Giants' sales climb.

Excerpt from Paul A. Stitt's book: Beating the Food Giants

So, are vegans really that weird? That's right; didn't think so!