{"id":1139,"date":"2012-02-06T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T11:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2012-02-06T12:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:36:52","slug":"youth-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/02\/youth-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtracktitives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Its true I&#8217;m only 16<br \/>\nBut the library&#8217;s the place<br \/>\nI get on line for free there<br \/>\nWhere there always is a space<br \/>\nI study about foodstuffs<br \/>\nand additives galore<br \/>\nDad says I&#8217;m\u00a0 off my rocker<br \/>\nWhat do I do it for?<br \/>\nI tell him I&#8217;m his ears and eyes<br \/>\nFor what goes in his grub<br \/>\nFrom cola drinks to Guinness<br \/>\nThat he drinks in the pub<br \/>\nFish fingers and hamburgers<br \/>\nSausages and chips<br \/>\nEven his cheese footballs<br \/>\nPutting inches on mum&#8217;s hips<br \/>\nBecause mum&#8217;s always dieting<br \/>\nits Aspartame, she<br \/>\nSprinkles on our jellies<br \/>\nOn our oats and in her tea<br \/>\nI told her its Monsanto&#8217;s muck<br \/>\nA chemical of sorts<br \/>\nThat gets into her brain box and<br \/>\nConfuses all her thoughts<br \/>\nAnd many say brain tumours<br \/>\nand brought about by it<br \/>\nBetter to eat sugar then load up on<br \/>\nthis shit<br \/>\nNow the new one Neotame<br \/>\nit is very sweet<br \/>\nSo you only use a tiny bit<br \/>\nits not from Beet, its not from Cane<br \/>\nIts once again<br \/>\nMade in a laboratory<br \/>\nit is a neurotoxin<br \/>\nAnd of it you can&#8217;t break free<br \/>\nThe cheesy footballs that she eats<br \/>\nwatching the TV<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s lot of trans fats hidden there<br \/>\nand refined salt there be<br \/>\nPalm fat some poor forest<br \/>\nWas torn down tragically<br \/>\nOrangutans were displaced<br \/>\nand died in purgatory<br \/>\nThat Rum and Coke was terrible<br \/>\nAnd as acidic as they dare<br \/>\nIt put stress on her\u00a0 heart<br \/>\nWhich to me just wasn&#8217;t fair<br \/>\nFish do not have fingers<br \/>\nAnd Birds Eye what they do<br \/>\nIs coat the fish in\u00a0 a coating<br \/>\nBut the price per pound its true<br \/>\nIs very high, and for Dad and me<br \/>\nbeing on the dole<br \/>\nBuying such expensive muck<br \/>\nwhen it appears so droll<br \/>\nDad, he had been working hard<br \/>\nAnd now each day our plates<br \/>\nWere sparsely filled with junk food<br \/>\nWhich poor old Dad just hates<br \/>\nHeavily processed nonsense<br \/>\nWith additives galore<br \/>\nThat dumb us down for Corry<br \/>\nand East Enders, and whats more<br \/>\nMono sodium glutamate is in the take away<br \/>\nE numbers by the spade full<br \/>\nMust life\u00a0 be this way<br \/>\nProcessed meat with nitrites<br \/>\nOrganic salmon dosed<br \/>\nIn lots of nasty pesticides<br \/>\nI&#8217;d give up the ghost<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Especially when theirs pig pancreas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">included in your toast<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Whats behind all the labels<br \/>\nAre chemicals galore<br \/>\nAnd none of them are as good<br \/>\nas the food we had before<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; 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