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Haven't bought a supermarket ""tomato"" in decades: cardboard nerf balls.
(Lots of folks have No Idea what a real tomato tastes like!)

Of late, add: milk from usual drugged-up cows kept in phone booth cages.
Meat " " (add Filthy, thus unsanitary, cruel mass pens requiring the drugs because they stand 24/7 in their own shit/e-coli etc.) CA Hwy 5 takes you right by one of these pre-abattoirs, "The Harris Ranch"; smell it for miles. Then Look at these beasts as you cruise by... Your burger, Sir.

Fruit picked green, as never 'ripens'.. in paper bags or on windowsills. (Rots first)
Lots of the pesticides used on other leafy, green veggies cannot be washed off with (typ citrus-based) cleansers - while other brews can be effectively removed. Some berries have 3-5 tenacious things sprayed on / intermixed with skin growth. Etc.
Ya gots to be an alchemist, in '04.

'Organic' gets messy in the inevitable mixture of logistics + std cupidity over Word-labels. Add lawyering to your food search.

For those of us as cannot afford the yuppie prices - keeping the immune system just relatively.. pharm-chem toxin-free requires.. increasingly Otherwise food purchases.

I am not alone, though deriving believable stats re informed disenchantment is a bit of a problem. (I'm unconcerned with what the mass mind 'thinks' this year, in any case)

Murican food - Dow chemical + semi-live bulk-material = the triumph of Corporate efficiency VS the edible. And as usual: screw the actual producer, Wal-Mart style.
It's the futchah. No wonder the %GNP we spend on shitty-average medico stuff, and for %fewer and fewer is unprecedented. Food + medicine: peas in a pod. The average MD [still!] gets about an hour of 'nutrition' insruction, last I heard. Think about That.
[/shitty food rant::cupidity]

Still, re feeding 300M bodies "something": the popularity of the junk meal proves that bizness knows just how much shit we Will eat without complaint. The Olestra\ufffd fiasco demonstrates just how far we *would* go - to eat as much grease as we are accustomed to
[even if it's indigestible plastic-grease, in this case] ==
..it failed Only because so many experienced diarrhea! Bummer, that. No sale. Millions of entrepreneurial-$ er, down the loo - Loved. It. Some corner offices lost on that Project..

I'll measure the wising-up? by yearly stats next, on the drop in poundage of the average Murican, as that factoid appears to be a decent metric for %junk-food (subject to individual genetics, natch).

As some guy on the radio used to say, when I was a tyke -
(Imagine, a program on nutrition! on a US "radio station")

You Are what you eat..
Bon appetit