The Public Health Paradox

Why is it that our friendly overlords run health adverts aimed, ostensibly, at improving public awareness of health issues?

I mean, if they really gave a crap about your wellbeing, they would tell you about all the carcinogens you are exposed to from air, food, water, on and on. They would tell you about the dangers of refined sugar, at least. Or they would be nice enough to remove the Bisphenol A from food containers before it "saps and impurifies our precious bodily fluids".

No, they couldn't give a shit if you are vertical or horizontal at sixty, fifty, forty. On the contrary, they have endeavoured to ensure your untimely demise.

So why the fascist pogrom against smokers? Perhaps tar filled lungs aren't worth much when little piggy gets to market.

Why the war on salt? I don't know. I'd say distraction.

Why turn the whole nation into a giant Fat Camp? My best guess is that chubby hearts don't fetch much of a price.

And why prod people to eat more of this stuff? Unless your 5 a day makes you a better end product.

That's about the only way I can make sense out of this paradox. We are after all on a farm.

So, are you familiar with organ harvesting?