The Source of Things Matters

Recently I'm reading about food. Organic, non-genetically modified...and recipes. Some how in our great big world not enough people are talking about the fact that our food sources are becoming so polluted by chemicals, unsafe water, and manufacturing processes...that well--it has slowly become a point of no lo contendre with most food companies. I realize I am just an educator--but I will try to begin the movement to ask big food companies to give us the less processed, more organic, and safer in the long run foods we need. Why not? I should use my knowledge for the good of more than just myself.  

Some of the best food I've tasted was that grown in my own or my friends gardens. Some of the most inspiring ideas for living a wonderful life have poured fourth around the table filled with food from home gardens or the local farmers market.  The question still remains why so many of us patronize and participate in the cheap, easy, quick food that has made our world so toxic.  It is not only making our world toxic...we have epidemic status of obesity, diseases and conditions that lead to disease on our hands in this country.  It doesn't begin to look conquerable if you add to this the fact that as more people age the health systems of our country will be so overburdened that people will be chosen for care just because they are well...younger and healthier. You can see that this is going to happen. The systems of health care are already over taxed...and the boomer generation is just now thinking of sitting back and retiring.  Just wait folks--I'm that little bird telling you--it is on it's way here. http://www.organicgardening.com/

Why would you want to put anything but the very best into your body? 

First-financial incentive. If you are strapped with not enough money or you have more people to feed than your expendable income--you buy what is cheapest and quickest. Second-knowledge. If you do not understand the source of your food and what is added to it or how it is grown or processed prior to becoming that on 'the table in less than thirty minutes meal'--you are less likely to care about the long term impact of the food on your body, the environment and the well being of those you feed. 

This is just me. Trying to figure out how to make the world I will leave behind better place. I am sure my dairy farmer ancestors--oddly on both sides of the family--appreciate that I want a nice pure ice cream made with some good naturally fed dairy cow milk and organic sugar--and I know--they are watching me as I muddle through this life...one picky pint of ice cream at a time.

That's my feather for today.