blog 4

Dr. David Kessler raises an interesting yet reasonable point in his article “The End of Over Eating”. What is more mind bottling is there are great similarities between Kessler’s article and the CAFO system, which I’ve talked much about in my blogs. This passage will describe the link between Kessler and CAFO’s system.

Basically Kessler’s writes about the connection between how a human brain works, especially the neurological response to pleaser, and the main ingredients in certain junk foods that trigger pleasure to a human. This causes an unhealthy way of eating called “Over eating”. Personally I always had this issue with certain junk food that I craved, it never made sense to me until now.  A point the Kessler made in his article that really stood out was when he states “Foods high in fat, salt and sugar alter the brain's chemistry in ways that compel people to overeat. ‘Much of the scientific research around overeating has been physiology -- what's going on in our body,’ he said. ‘The real question is what's going on in our brain’” (Kessler). Kessler changes your perspective from looking at what you eat to why you crave the things you eat.

Which brings me to the CAFO system. “The Cafo Reader: Tragedy of the food industry” by David Imhoff is a book I’ve mentioned a lot in most of my blogs. David Imhoff describes where most meat comes from, how its made and the effects of this mal-practice. Essentially it’s a corrupt business filled with filth, torture and insanity, which is transferred into our meat. Same meat we consume, mostly fast food restaurants and cheap supermarket poultry.  The link between Imhoff book and Kessler’s article is where Imhoff assures us “Americans obtain enormous amounts of meat and poultry on a daily basis so it’s logical to create a system that can feed a billion of us in the shortest amount of time. Since the 1920’s when scientist discovered adding vitamins A and D to the food the give these animals will help them keep the animals inside for a full year, able to channel their energy so they can grow faster. Ever since then mortality and diseases have been growing faster as well. These outbreaks weren’t only caused from confinement, livestock’s are given regular doses of antibiotics too grow faster, pasture was replaced by grains, and farmers turned to technology (synthetic fertilizers, toxic pesticides and herbicides)” (Imhoff 70). In fewer word, that unhealthy meat designed by the CAFO system which most fast food’s consume from and the reason why our brains are addicted to them, links us to the un-natural way they are made.

The ingredient’s we put in our body affects the way our mind works. The similarities between both Kessler and Imhoff are astonishing and very interesting to look into.