You knew Twinkies were bad for your health. They contain sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, AND dextrose. They are made with white flour. The filling is composed largely of trans fats.
But did you know that Twinkies are bad for the health of your country, the world economy, and your planet?
Check out this article.
Yes, you’ve read this right. Twinkies are made with ingredients that are derived from fossil fuels, many of them of foreign origin. I usually try to stay away from politics on this blog (other than frequent digs at the USDA, which rightly gets criticized from both ends of the political spectrum), but really! Fossil fuels are a scarce, non-renewable natural resource. No one is sure when we will run out of them, but surely everyone agrees it will happen someday, and when that day comes, very bad things will happen to the world economy. Furthermore, our dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuels implicates us in partnerships with repressive regimes like China and Saudia Arabia that violate the principles of freedom that Americans hold dear. Some people argue that one or both of the Iraq wars have been fought to protect our foreign oil interests, and we send our nation’s youth there to die.
And we’re pumping petroleum products into Twinkies? And what for? So we can all get fat and sick and rely on expensive pharmaceuticals that may relieve some symptoms but don’t prevent us from dying before our time?
If you look up “bad bargain” in the dictionary, you’ll find a picture of a Twinkie.
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