INUITS UNDER THE PSYCHOFORCE OF INDUSTRIAL FOODS IN CANADA´S HIGH ARCTIC

Inuit child gobbling up jelly and nuts. Source: John Tyman´s.

By Gundhramns Hammer
January 4, 2014
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One of the biggest experiments on humans is being carried out right now in the Arctic. Nobody is being pushed into the lab but everybody is being surreptitiously guided, coaxed and manipulated into it by the powerful psychoforce of the media (TV, radio, magazines, etc.)

Processed foods and any modern convenience invented by man are now found everywhere on planet Earth including the circumpolar regions. It is literally an invasion.

More and more people are giving up their traditional foods and switching to industrial foods. Which also means that more and more people have to find a job to get the bucks to buy them.

Considering that naked apes (Homo insapiens) are basically lazy creatures, it is not surprising. 

It is easier to go hunting to the grocery shop or the mall than risking life being fucked up by a big cat or bear, falling prey of the human organ smugglers in the jungle, being bitten by a venomous snake or scorpion whilst foraging out in the bush, or sweating and toiling the land for tubers or leguminous pods.

More and more people are also becoming addicted to processed foods. Thus, junk food is always present on the table round the clock. 

This is the case with the  Inuit people in Canada´s high Arctic. Inuits are under the psychoforce of industrial foods. 

Inuit children have become addicted to sweets, crackers, chips and any food item that pleases the tongue (Fig. 1). Kids are the champion leaders when it comes to what mothers should buy at the stores (Fig. 2). 

Figure 2. Inuit girl with junk food. Source: John Tyman´s.

Figure 2. Inuit mothers shopping at The Bay. Source: John Tyman´s.

But processed foods do not come cheat to the Arctic regions. They cost an arm and a leg (Video 1). So people have to work their ass off to pay for them.

                                     Video 1. Crazy grocery prices in Nunavut, Canada.

Living in the Arctic is expensive and the human heart is weak. Sometimes men are tempted or become mafiosi and get involved in smuggling narwhal tusks and polar bear meat for the southern black markets.

Gone are the days when Inuits used to have a chunk of meat for breakfast. Now they have a cup of coffee or tea, a slice of bread with jelly and peanut butter, muffins with butter, or cereal with milk, just like anyone in other lands. Table 1 shows what Alaskan Natives consume nowadays.

Table 1. Comparison of the 20 most frequently consumed foods ranked accordingly to their frequency of consumption by 351 Alaska Native adults (1987-1988) and 11,658 NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II) adult participants (1976-1980). Source: Nobmann et al. (1992).

As a result, more people are getting fat, getting cancer, diabetes and other diseases and risking kicking the bucket before they reach 40 years of age. 

Which is good news for the pharma and med companies and the funeral homes too, by the way.

Where the fuck is the wisdom the Inuit have accumulated through the centuries? Out of the window?

Sweets and goodies are so tempting, aren´t they? Damn it! 

The tongue is the boss many a times!! It is tough to fight against evolution´s hardwiring for sweets and pleasing flavoured food items in human brains , isn´t it? 

And they know it. We mean, the giant industrial food corporations.

Thus is the spell under which man has fallen prey. Homo lupus homini!

References 

Duhaime G., Chabot M. & Gaudreault M. (2002). Food consumption patterns and socioeconomic factors among the Inuit of Nunavik. Ecol. Food Nutr., 41: 91-118.

Nobmann E. D., Byers T., Lanier A. P., Hankin J. H. & Jackson Y. (1992). The diet of Alaska Native adults: 1987-1988. Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 55: 1024-1032.