Food

For a very long time I have been an advocate for healthy food. All my life I ate pretty good (when the chance was there of course) and always encouraged others to eat good too. Somehow my view back over my life skips my picky childhood. My mother says I wouldn't eat anything fancy. I remember shake and bake chicken, basmati jasmine rice, salad all the time, steak and my grandmothers amazing cooking perogies, cabbage rolls, cakes, noodles!



I also had put 2 and 2 together and discovered that when I ate poorly I got fat, and I did not enjoy it. So that was the begining of this long ass journey I've been on my whole life I guess.

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Now that I am older and I have my own children I am deeply disturbed about the whole food industry. As an adult I am well aware of the fact that we are always been told to eat less salt, eat less fat, and eat less sugar. It turns out that these things are the essentials our body needs to survive. Without those things = disaster! But we are eating too much = health disasters.

(and I must confess, the C word scares me. everybody gets it... I believe that by keeping our bodies 100% healthy by avoidance of preservatives, chemicals, plastics, and pollutants we will all be given an advantage.)

So how hard is it to cut out the things that you don't want to eat on principal. It's not that hard. Once you make up your mind just tell yourself, "Nope. I don't agree with this because..." and be true to that feeling.

I watched a documentary a little while ago called Food Inc. (http://www.foodincmovie.com/) It talks about how their is a thing called the iron food curtain. It is the grocery store. You walk into it and everything is all packaged and pretty and you buy it but you do not actually see where it comes from. It brought a lot of different issues to life for me.

1. the treatment of the livestock. this poor animals are existing is a miasma of misery and fear and pain. thousands upon thousands all stacked up. Do you think that just maybe those circumstances create filth and desease??

2. the cleanliness of the food. wow. watch the movie. its sick. all the meat pretty much unlabelled from where it came from has been washed (up to 6x) in ammonia... Think about it. Ammonia which is a cleaner that is a toxic substance...poison.

3. the animals are all eating corn. corn is so plentifull that we are forcing animals that don't eat it exclusively to eat it exclsively.
and oh yeah all those wierd ingrediants like malto dextrin? etc etc those are all corn ingredients. and it is in almost all of our packaged food. all your crap.

4. how the filth that is washed away goes down river to water/contaminate your lettuce. creepy. The way we raise, process. and use our food is dangerous and wastefull.

I do not want to eat something that lived existed in misery all or most of its life.
I don't agree with keeping animals in little cages.
I do not agree with cutting the beaks off of chickens so that they will not peck each other.
I think that sunlight and happiness are important for animals too.
We are what we eat, and I'd like to eat cow that ate its natural food, not cow that ate corn and now has a plug in its tummy that comes out so the farmer can stick his hand into the cows tummy to help digest the food...if cows eat grass mostly instead of corn, why not feed them what they need?

I want this blog to be a reflection of my journey.
I want to populate it with all the stuff that I have learned.

I have learned humility. I have realized that all is not as it seems. I look around me and see a throw away society. It has to stop!! All the plastic, all of it is just going into the ground! What are our children going to do with all this garbage? its buried everywhere! and not just plastics, also toxic waste.