Why America Loves Processed Food And Hates Raw Vegetables - We Need To Re-Program Our Taste Buds

Most of us have vivid memories of our mother's admonishing us to eat our vegetables, and according to my recollection, I hated them. Actually in retrospect I don't believe I hated vegetables, but I did hate the concoction that posed as vegetables which ended up on my plate. Certainly they weren't lovely, fresh, organic vegetables with all of their textures and colors in tact. What ended up on my plate were taken out of a plastic bag of frozen vegetables, boiled until they were rather slimy and then slathered with margarine and salt in order to make them a bit more palatable. I say this because these were some of the ingrained memories I had to deal with when I decided to become a vegetarian. My ultimate decision was

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