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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: Homestead mailing list digest <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Something New For Fascists To Go On About
  • Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:48:09 -0800

My poor mom died of cancer at age 55. Multiple myeloma is when you have cancer of the bone marrow all over your body. I was only 15. She actually said to me one day, as she lay there, "Billy, you've got to find out what it is we're eating that caused this. It's got to be something."

This diet may sound familiar to you folks. The morning started invariably with box cereal, the highest known source of carcinogenic acrilamide. Lunch was usually peanut butter, maybe the second highest source. Dinner was an opportunity to eat some really lovely browned foods, like maybe hamburger steak with a dark veneer of nitrosamines. Mom kept a deep fryer going under the sink (not on all the time, of course). We didn't know; that's why her cooking was so good. Two favorite acccompaniments for dinner were Rice-A-Roni, where the rice and noodle pieces are thoroughly browned in margarine, and a tiny portion of some frozen cole crop, bathed liberally in carcinogenic browned margarine.

I'd bet that besides skin cancer and lung cancer, which usually have other obvious causes, the epidemic of browning is at the heart of most cancer etiology.
Now, one way to make people like mom pay for the extra health care dollars they'll be sucking up some day, since we can't put a pork rind monitor on their chin, would be to have Devil's Advocates whose job is to snap photos of people eating smoked octopus or such, and then send the photos to the insurance provider, who can then cancel on their insurance. Maybe that's a little too severe, so how about just having reports sent to a central government agency each time you purchase a doughnut. It could be just like rationing during WWII. Deep frying rarely occurs at home these days, so that's almost feasible. I can only dream of the day when everyone's behavior will be controlled exactly as I demand. :-)

Of course, my fascist demands that everyone become enlightened to the same extent that I am, and scrupulously avoid all the foods I've condemned, probably has more to do with my desire to control others, than it does with any feigned concern for the price of health insurance or the evils of socialism.

Bill






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