Runner banned from Olympics over burrito

Well, folks, it's a stupid world we live in. You can't deny that!

It's bad enough that the International Olympic Committee likes authoritarians, causing them to often hold the Olympics in countries with authoritarian governments - like the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Beijing. Even when the Olympics are in a country that isn't particularly authoritarian, the committee still manages to bungle it. They not only delayed the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo until this summer but have also strictly limited capacity and banned cheering - even as COVID-19 has become just a memory.

What's the point of even having the Olympics if it can't have in-person fans?

Now Shelby Houlihan - a record-setting runner who was a favorite for America's Olympic team - is being disqualified from the Olympic trials, and won't be in the Olympics. She has spent her entire life practicing for the Olympics, and now her dream has been dashed. She was disqualified and received a 4-year suspension from running because she tested positive for a banned steroid.

Why did she test positive? It was because of a pork burrito she got from a food stand. She tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone because this substance was used in the pig meat in the burrito.

Since it was first allowed in the mid-'90s, we've been pumping our food supply with steroids, artificial hormones, and other substances. So much of our diet is made up of frankenfoods now that it's hard to avoid consuming these substances. Yet Olympic officials keep trying to make examples of athletes by punishing them for what's in our food supply.

I think these frankenfoods have had a negative biological impact on people, especially those young enough to have been raised on them. This - combined with the elitist media's stage-managing of social mores - seems to have had a disastrous effect on people's behavior and health. If potential Olympic athletes are punished for ingesting frankenfoods, maybe the factory farming industry should be punished just as severely for introducing steroids into our food supply.