Can't Trust the Food

I was reading an article at Alternet.com about "natural" food labeling. It turns out that the word "natural" doesn't necessarily mean natural like no pesticides, hormones, artificial flavorings, no GMOs, etc. According to Urvashi Rangan, the executive director of the Consumer Reports Food Safety and Sustainability Center, who is leading the organization’s fight for clearer food labeling, about the new study and campaign, "natural" labeled food can still contain pesticides and other dangerous substances which are not required to be on the label of ingredients of the food you buy.

In fact Mr. Rangan says that “Natural” is one of the most misleading labels that's out on the marketplace. Year after year when we have asked consumers about what they think it means, they think it means more than it does." He further says that his organization would like to see the "natural" on foods banned altogether. 

But, what I find most disturbing is that this is yet another case where a greedy corporation, any corporation, can coop an idea/concept and pervert it for profit. People have always understood the word "natural" to mean something is as it was created, right? Greedy capitalist bastards want us to believe that food was created with pesticides, hormones, and any other garbage already present. They want us to be loyal consumers of their products while they knowingly poison us. Imagine the congratulatory speeches they give at shareholder meetings about how the corporation is growing its profits yearly with its new line of "natural" products. But of course they don't tell the shareholders how many people are being poisoned by the garbage they sell because people are not important just consumers.