Do you remember the story of the Emperor s New Clothes?

Each year, in a far-off kingdom, the Emperor ordered an elegant

new wardrobe to parade before his subjects. One year a gang of

swindlers took advantage of his trusting nature and sold him

clothes that didn t exist--material that was invisible~ The Em-

peror was cajoled into agreeing that the nonexistent cloth was

beautiful, expensive, and elegant. He paid an exorbitant price for

his "new clothes," pretended to put them on, and paraded before

his subjects stark naked. Everyone was too ashamed--or too proud

--to admit that the too-trusting Emperor had been swindled by

a bunch of tricksters. As a result they all told him how wonderful

his "new clothes" were. Everyone, that is, except for one little boy

who observed the Emperor incredulously and finally said: "Your

Majesty, you re naked!"

This book was written by that little boy. You have been tricked

into liking a breakfast of artificial-imitation-synthetic orange

drink, imitation white bread, imitation butter (margarine), imi-

tation jam (made with corn syrup), chemicalized coffee with

imitation cream, agid possibly imitation eggs and imitation bacon

~ " " " i"

--two "new" products. You gulp artlficlal-lm~tatlon-synthet c vita-

min and mineral pills covered with saccharin and artificial colors.

You eat 5000 different synthetic chemicals in your day-to-day diet,

and you consume more than six pounds of exotic preservatives