Diesel and American Food

The Extraordinary Insights of Rudolf Diesel.

In 1904, during a trip to America, Rudolf Diesel was appalled at the food. Yes, even then we were in the beginnings of a captured industry. Diesel was a copious diarist and note-taker, recording his thoughts about everything. I will relay here a few paragraphs (emphasis mine) from the book The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel by Douglas Brunt.

“In convivial disbelief that has extended to Europeans of the twenty first century, he watched Americans eat. “Food: as many courses as you like, huge quantities, therefore the tendency to consume a lot of food in arbitrary combinations. Ice cream is served with every meal, and in-between as a snack. Often, ice cream twice with one meal, in the middle and at the end.”

With a more concerned tone he noted the unhealthy canned foods that were commonplace fare for most Americans and blamed this on the culture of mass production and the monopolists. He felt that powerful financiers could vertically integrate industries to control markets, then hold the American consumers prisoner to a limited choice of products. Feeling subjected to the will of the monopolistic forces he wrote “Terrible hotels in Yellowstone, for days on end only canned foods, ruthless exploitation by the food manufacturers who have founded the hotel corporations. Morgan’s (J.P. Morgan) prunes are in every Yellowstone hotel just because Morgan (as a shareholder of the hotels) bought a whole shipload of prunes. Those canned foods he could not sell the year before are now being delivered to the hotels.” Morgan’s business practice was objectionable on it’s own, but the taste and health concerns were equally concerning. “Half of America lives off canned goods!” wrote Diesel, adding, “It truly is a poisoning of the people by the monopolists…even the French fries are sold in ready made cartons*.”

*HA! Cartons! Oh to be so lucky as those people 120 years ago. Now we are not only subjected to a highly refined ultra-processed food, but it is also encased in plastic. Always. A carton would be positively crunchy nowdays. ‘Encase my food in dirt please. And make it dirt from the 1700’s. I don’t want dirt from now. I want pure dirty dirt’.

I enjoyed the genius of Diesel, especially his observations on a relatively new America compared to Europe, in the chapter called A Study of the Sleeping Giant. His observation of how the monopolies subjected the working class into poor health while heading to the bank upon their backs is most enlightening disgustingly evil. The book brought to my mind the interview by Tucker of Calley and Casey Means. I highly recommend it. It connects the corporate/pHarma/monopolistic swampy dots.

Rockefeller, Morgan and all the others…pushing OIL into lamps, gas tanks and our food supply. Seriously? Yep. Look it all up. Seed oils in everything we eat. Why? Because they could/can. Because we let them. Because we are captured. Because we are prisoners. They plant canola, corn, safflower and sunflower just to turn it into oil. Which will be in turn added to ultra-processed food. They could just be planting FOOD. The USDA gives out subsidies to farmers to plant corn. Or gives them money to plant NOTHING. You literally would not believe where I have personally seen corn fields spring up. Corn is not a good crop for the dry rangeland desert where we live. Yet, there it is, in all it’s bought and paid for high-fructose-corn-syrup glory.

Enlightenment and Change come hand in hand.

I do believe it is time we tell these COLLUDERS to SHOVE IT. We need to take back our health. The easiest way to start is by not eating anything we can’t pronounce. If we can’t pronounce it, I am pretty sure that our bodies cannot process it correctly and it hangs around inside of us, poisoning our bodies, causing disease. But, that is just my opinion. I have no official source for this reasoning. But, it does make perfect sense.

“THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.” ~God

What makes us think that adultery only applies to naughty stuff that goes on between the sheets? Our food supply has been adulterated.

Where does the word adultery come from?

The first records of the word adultery come from the 1300s. It ultimately derives from the Latin verb adulterāre, meaning “to defile.” The same word is the basis of the English verb adulterate, meaning “to debase” or “to make impure.”

adulterated:

adjective as in debased or dirty

• attenuated

• blended

• contaminated

• corrupt

• defiled

• degraded

• depreciated

• deteriorated

• devalued

• diluted

• dissolved

• impaired

• mixed

• polluted

• tainted

• thinned

• vitiated

• weakened

This affects everyone. It is not as if we can give up food like an alcoholic gives up booze. We need to eat. Food is fuel for our life and who we are. It supplies the energy so we can be the best version of ourselves. Could this be any simpler? I have come to the conclusion that those who have adulterated our food supply are big giant, dirty corporate sinners. Yep. I am being just that judgey.

In a way, those of us who care about our health have become like the hunters and gatherers of old, searching out and gathering or hunting down real food. Our food source today might not have teeth and claws, but it is far more nefarious and deadly. And everywhere. At least back then you could kill the threat coming at you and eat it. Not anymore. Our prey is not simply coming after us because it is instinct. Our prey is decidedly trying to kill us because it is intrinsically evil. And, I refuse to be the prey. I am The Huntress.

Not this huntress.

It is a noble and honorable quest, because as children made in the image of God, we deserve to eat what our bodies crave to flourish. Seriously…cheetos? WTF are those anyway? Pure junk. Highly addictive and delicious junk, don’t get me wrong. I have had my share of Cheeto hand that requires soap and water to erase the tell-tale orange dust. Think of what it must do to our insides. Has anyone else heard of that experiment where they put a steak in a glass of Coca-Cola and it disappeared? I have also heard that it can clean a radiator. (Disclaimer: If they had not taken cocaine out of Coca-Cola and replaced it with bad chemicals and more sugar, I might re-think NOT drinking it) JK. But, really…am I?

Our food supply was hijacked a LONG time ago. And that means that it will be no easy task to take back our health. But, it is the first and most important step to disentangling ourselves from a monopoly of gigantic proportions with tentacles into almost ALL areas of our everyday lives. If the food choices being offered to Americans are making us sick and lowering our IQ’s with each bite, we can’t tackle bigger problems until we deal with the one in our kitchen. After we do, then with clear heads, free of chemicals, hopefully we will go forward and make a better path for our kids and grandkids. Because if we don’t fight this, who will? And, a place we can all start the rebellion/resistance/pushback is with our wallets in a grocery store. Or a Farmers Market. Local Local Local.

And…don’t forget to bless your food. Amen.