Summer 2002, Chapter 6

Chapter 3 - Sad Observations for your Health

So, last night, I went out for a couple of pitchers with an old friend
from high school. Beforehand, I was a little bit thirsty, so, I ran over
to a Mac's Milk store, and began to try to find something that wasn't
loaded up with sugar or caffeine, and actually had something resembling
nutritional value, for an affordable price.

As I browsed the shelves and the coolers, I began to realise that there's
a conspiracy against beverages that are good for you. While big bottles
of pop were going for as little as a buck, the second fruit juice became
added to a product, its price skyrocketed. The cheapest, not completely
unhealthy thing I found was a small bottle of Snapple Iced Tea, for $1.49.
A bottle of actual juice (and not that fruit "drink" crap, which has trace
elements of fruit juice somewhere in the plant where it was manufactured)
that was the same size was over $2.

It's almost like corporations don't want us to be healthy.

Instead, they want us all to become sugar-crazed, toothless morons,
zipping all over the place in our caffeine induced spastic states. And
they've got us trapped, because they know we can't afford to buy the
stuff that's good for us.

It's a sad state of affairs...

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