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Ironically, the U.S. diet was once the best in the world
And that makes me and organic farmers bitches?
Copyright 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley
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Causes of Consumerism:
Environmental and Substance Use
Environmental insults
Air and water pollution
Soil contamination
Lead poisoning from paint chips and lead plumbing
Environmental racism
Polluting plants invariably in people-of-color neighborhoods
Pesticides in schools, workplaces, and institutions
Radiation exposure, including during pregnancy
Occupational exposure, including during pregnancy
Substance abuse
Starts with caffeine
Caffeine leads to alcohol, tobacco, and all other drugs
And that makes me and environmentalists bitches?
Gambling
Addictive
Regressive tax that unjustly burdens the poor
Historical myopia and ignorance
Dismembered history
Suppression of the long history of dissent
Cultural poverty
Literary, performing, and visual arts poverty
Systematic destruction of authentic European culture, as well as that of African,
Latin, Indigenous, and Asian cultures
And that makes me and alternative historians bitches?