Everything You Eat Is Poisoned

Our food system is collapsing under the weight of industrial greed.

(Image created by the author via DALL-E.)

If you thought the recent FDA decision to suspend routine testing of milk and other food products was horrifying, buckle up — it’s about to get worse. Sure, the headlines screaming about unchecked contaminants in your morning cereal or your kid’s lunch milk might jolt you awake, but this scandal is merely a symptom of a much deeper, far more sinister disease poisoning the planet’s food supply from beneath our feet.

Picture this: beneath those lush fields that produce your kale smoothies and organic quinoa salads lies soil quietly saturated with toxic metals — lead, arsenic, cadmium — and a horrifying alphabet soup of industrial chemicals. Humanity’s reckless and relentless chemical dumping spree over the past century has embedded a poisonous legacy deep into the Earth’s crust. Now, the crops we assume to be healthy, the fruits and vegetables we proudly feed our families, are unwitting accomplices. They’re absorbing these toxins directly through their roots, effectively transforming the very nourishment we depend upon into slow-acting poisons.

You’d be right to feel a visceral outrage — after all, the whole damn point of eating vegetables was to avoid eating poisons. Instead, we’ve stumbled into an era of involuntary chemical…