Terrible Food

Due to writing a cause and effect essay recently about the corruption of the FDA, it has opened my eyes a good about how messed up our government is. I dont claim to know everything about everything, but I dont think we have any control over our government right now. The FDA, for example. The people that make up the FDA are not voted in, they are chosen by poloticians. This is horrible because this is not giving the people of America any kind of say about what they are putting in their bodies. What is good to eat and what isnt. I even read one article that had to do with companies threatening cherry growers for saying that cherries have the same properties as over the counter pain medication. It is illegal to state facts because some one might lose some money. It would be illegal for a prune juice company to say that prune juice may act as a laxative, even though it is true. And then the stuff they are putting in our food and feeding the animals we are eating is terrible too. So what can we do? Try to buy organic things, but how organic are they really and not to mention organic foods tend to be pricey. I am on a budget at the grocery store as it is. I just feel like I am stuck buying chicken and beef flavored poison. Maybe I should just be a vegan. Nah.