{"id":4190,"date":"2019-08-15T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/an-open-letter\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:27:33","slug":"an-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=4190","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure many of you can imagine, ever since the <a href=&quot;http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php\/blog\/lets-get-serious-for-a-minute\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diabetes diagnosis<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been paying extra special attention to the nutritional information of the foods I buy. This is particularly true of convenience foods like protein shakes and snack bars, since many of them are diabetic-friendly and many of them&#8230; aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve noticed something. A lot of the brands have specially marked varieties for diabetics. &quot;Diabetic&quot; this and &quot;glucose control&quot; that. And you know what?<\/p>\n<p>Very often&#8211;not always, but often&#8211;the &quot;diabetic-friendly&quot; variety has the exact same nutritional values and components as other low-carb varieties sold by the same brand, and yet they cost 20 to 25% more.<\/p>\n<p>Let me say that again. They&#8217;re charging 20 to 25% more for something that said &quot;diabetic&quot; on the label, but is otherwise identical to other low-carb options.<\/p>\n<p>So, to the brands\/manufacturers in question, on behalf of not only diabetics, but anybody with a soul: <em>Fuck you, you parasites<\/em>. I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s a Hell, but if not, someone ought to invent one specially for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m sure many of you can imagine, ever since the diabetes diagnosis, I&#8217;ve been paying extra special attention to the nutritional information of the foods I buy. This is particularly true of convenience foods like protein shakes and snack bars, since many of them are diabetic-friendly and many of them&#8230; aren&#8217;t. And I&#8217;ve noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}