Why is it so hard to make a salad?

Prom is just around the corner and for that day I want to look good on my dress. Right now I'm in a soccer team and its helping me burn some calories. But if i want to lose weight then I'm going to have to put myself in a diet. So I went to the market in the corner of my house were I regularly buy my food. I was looking for vegtables so I could make my salads and stop eating food with allot of fats. I was looking threw the vegtable allies and I could find any fresh lettuce, they looked all old and rotten. It was also $1.25 each ball of lettuce, that's too expensive and I'm planing to eat that every day until May 26, 2010.So I left my cart and I walked out, I went to the store I went to the store that is two blocks away from my house. When i got there, all the vegetables and fruits were very expensive. I turned around and i saw an employer,"Why is everything so expensive?" I asked. He answered,"Well because of the oil shortage its hard to get fruits and vegetables over here because they send us things from Bakersfield and different places and that's far. So now we try to get supply from the farmers market that is in 3rd st and it takes us about in hour to get it here because we don't have a truck on how to bring it.""Yes, this really affecting us", I said, so i ended up buying lettuce that is already in packages. If this continues then we are going to end up eating frankenfood. Just mentioning the name makes me get the chills. No more real food, all made by scientist and made to fulfill our hunger. Will frankenfood have any affects on our body later on in the future?I dont know how they make these foods, what they contain, if its hormones or whatever, this is not healthy for our body. That's why a community garden should be created in our community so we can get our vegetables fresh. Also we know what were eating in these gardens becuase we made them.

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