Subtracktitives

Its true I’m only 16
But the library’s the place
I get on line for free there
Where there always is a space
I study about foodstuffs
and additives galore
Dad says I’m  off my rocker
What do I do it for?
I tell him I’m his ears and eyes
For what goes in his grub
From cola drinks to Guinness
That he drinks in the pub
Fish fingers and hamburgers
Sausages and chips
Even his cheese footballs
Putting inches on mum’s hips
Because mum’s always dieting
its Aspartame, she
Sprinkles on our jellies
On our oats and in her tea
I told her its Monsanto’s muck
A chemical of sorts
That gets into her brain box and
Confuses all her thoughts
And many say brain tumours
and brought about by it
Better to eat sugar then load up on
this shit
Now the new one Neotame
it is very sweet
So you only use a tiny bit
its not from Beet, its not from Cane
Its once again
Made in a laboratory
it is a neurotoxin
And of it you can’t break free
The cheesy footballs that she eats
watching the TV
There’s lot of trans fats hidden there
and refined salt there be
Palm fat some poor forest
Was torn down tragically
Orangutans were displaced
and died in purgatory
That Rum and Coke was terrible
And as acidic as they dare
It put stress on her  heart
Which to me just wasn’t fair
Fish do not have fingers
And Birds Eye what they do
Is coat the fish in  a coating
But the price per pound its true
Is very high, and for Dad and me
being on the dole
Buying such expensive muck
when it appears so droll
Dad, he had been working hard
And now each day our plates
Were sparsely filled with junk food
Which poor old Dad just hates
Heavily processed nonsense
With additives galore
That dumb us down for Corry
and East Enders, and whats more
Mono sodium glutamate is in the take away
E numbers by the spade full
Must life  be this way
Processed meat with nitrites
Organic salmon dosed
In lots of nasty pesticides
I’d give up the ghost

Especially when theirs pig pancreas

included in your toast

Whats behind all the labels
Are chemicals galore
And none of them are as good
as the food we had before