- Apr 12, 2004
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So I just went to have my usual meal of bread and hummus today, and noticed that my mother had purchased a new brand of the savory spread we all know and love. The flavor was quite delicious and the texture most satisfactory, and I looked forward to yet another wonderful evening on Anandtech, thinking like the fool I am that I had filled my gullet with fully adequate nourishment. However, when I read the ingredient list to see if I could ascertain why it was more delectable than the others, it made me retch. Organic chickpeas, organic olive oil, organic mustard seed, and many more things pestiherbicide-free followed through in a list worthy of any highly regulated industry, both in detail and quantity provided. Nothing wrong, or so it had seemed.
Then there it was at the end: "and a lot of love". What. In. The. FUCK. How is this nonsense permitted to pollute the ingredients lists of our country? Has the corporatist food lobby bought out our illustrious Food and Drug Administration to such an extent? I'm not just making this up; it actually said "and a lot of love". No, not on a separate part of the container. Not in a different font, nor size, nor color. Not even as a parenthetical ha-ha. Were I in the possession of a camera I would post pics most damning, but alas, I am not. So irreverently tacked on to the end like any cheap commercial ploy, raising a metaphorical finger to each dedicated man and woman that serves our country by keeping it safe from the influences of big business. If this was not the depraved humor of some fat cat business owner, I must then wonder with terror as to what the FDA has defined "a lot of love" as. After the chocolate fiasco I fear for the worst, mayhaps labor quite undocumented discharging their seminal vessels into our very groceries. Please, somebody tell me that this was merely an oversight by our protecting powers. If otherwise, I've not a scintilla of hope left in our future.
Then there it was at the end: "and a lot of love". What. In. The. FUCK. How is this nonsense permitted to pollute the ingredients lists of our country? Has the corporatist food lobby bought out our illustrious Food and Drug Administration to such an extent? I'm not just making this up; it actually said "and a lot of love". No, not on a separate part of the container. Not in a different font, nor size, nor color. Not even as a parenthetical ha-ha. Were I in the possession of a camera I would post pics most damning, but alas, I am not. So irreverently tacked on to the end like any cheap commercial ploy, raising a metaphorical finger to each dedicated man and woman that serves our country by keeping it safe from the influences of big business. If this was not the depraved humor of some fat cat business owner, I must then wonder with terror as to what the FDA has defined "a lot of love" as. After the chocolate fiasco I fear for the worst, mayhaps labor quite undocumented discharging their seminal vessels into our very groceries. Please, somebody tell me that this was merely an oversight by our protecting powers. If otherwise, I've not a scintilla of hope left in our future.
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