The Original 7 Deadly Sins + 3, Part III - Gluttony

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Ahhhh....Back to the Good, the Bad, and the Deadly.  Today's issue?  Good ol' Gluttony.

Notice how alot of these sins tend to shake hands with each other, with a vengeance?  This one, along with sloth and greed, makes for one big one.  A triple threat.  We could call it Slutreed.  Might as well, saves on words and breath.  Believe me, my fingers could use more of a break.

By the way, for those of you who aren't really familiar with the extent of this particular sin, it not only involves what you ingest, it also involves what you withhold from those in need as well.

Being on the lower end of the sheeple scale, I see gluttony at work daily.  What's more, I see waste galore.  Now granted and given, there are reasons for some of this, but you can trace it all back to greed, which is our biggest crime here in our country.  What am I referring to?

Waste.  A 50% subset of gluttony.  Every day I watch so much food get tossed, it makes me ill.  With all the ways we've invented in our country to store and keep food, there's just no excuse for this.  We could not only feed our country with our waste, we could feed all the starving countries of the world as well.

Of course, the fault hardly or completely lies with the companies you work for.  You may have noticed, of late, the propensity for workplaces to not allow you, an employee, to take their food home, food that they're going to throw out anyway, at the end of the day.  In  my days of food service, I was always able to take home free food, no problem.  You always got free meals, if you worked at these places.  Just like every nicety we Americans used to enjoy once upon a time, some money hungry fools ruined things for the rest of us, during the course of time passing.  The late 70's and 80's were decades filled with legal stupidity, when it came to lawsuits, as well as the judges who ruled in favor of them.  I actually knew one couple who spent their entire lives just suing people for various things.  They never worked, they just waited to be awarded the next upcoming judgement they were expecting.  With every stupid lawsuit they awarded money to, it was like a fatal disease...more cropped up to copy the original, or different spins were put on the first, or new ones that were just as ridiculous came out to follow-up.  Pretty soon, litigation was a household word, and suing became a national way of life.

So I would imagine that there was a rash of food poisoning lawsuits that probably caused these food service companies to say "Screw it then!!  No more taking food home that we're gonna toss at the end of the day!  And since you're gonna be buttheads about it, and we have to toss out so much damn good food, well...you can just pay for your damn meals then.  We gotta cover the cost of the food we throw out, as well as pay for those lawsuits you keep winning."  See how the greed just weaves its way through every iota of this scenario?  Wow.

I really love days like Thanksgiving, where we serve up about 12 different plates chock-full of holiday goodness...and after we fill ourselves to over-flowing, we chuck about half of it right into the garbage can.  Now there's both sides of gluttony hard at work.  Happy Thankgiving and Merry Christmas you fat fool-hardy citizens.  Hope you can sleep at night after that crap.  Thank God my family is as disconnected as it is, or I'd have to participate in that hypocratic behavior as well.

Not that anybody with any sense would wanna eat this food anyway.  It's pretty damn obvious that not a one of us has any sense.  Not unlike the medications we take everyday, we're fully aware of  how dangerous a lot of this stuff is, yet we continue to eat it.  Really though, even if we had sense, would we really have a choice, but to eat it?  Aspartame is everywhere.  No other living creature will touch the stuff, yet we ingest it daily.  MSG's are impossible to avoid, yet the number of burgers McD's sells grows by the hundreds of thousands, daily, all over the world.  Genetically altered fruits and vegetables are the norm; we accept it, and chow down like it's goin' outta style.  We've been told (after five or six decades, finally), that flouride is actually bad for our teeth, and that our water is chock-full of it, yet we still drink it.  Doctored meat, various dangerous sugar substitutes (some of which we still aren't quite sure of the dangers of), preservatives, food dyes....the list is ridiculously endless and really scary...and yet we continue to eat, and eat...like we haven't a clue.  Why?  Well kids...we're just greedy, slothful gluttonous fools.  That's why.

Hell in a handbasket.  Someday we'll surely know what it means.  Till tomorrow.

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