real food

There are so many abominations that have been ‘created’ in the last 50 years by chemists in some lab and they simply are not food. Margarine is not food. White sugar and all it’s chemical substitutes (aspertame etc.) that feed our sweet tooth are killing us. Corn and soy are in everything. Food preservatives, dyes, flavor enhancers, think about it – food is created by food scientists and chemists in a lab.  Are our bodies built for this?

For thousands of years food came from the earth. People ate plants and animals that co-evolved as part of a complex ecosystem. We experience food allergies, obesity, heart disease and cancer at rates that are unbelievable and yet the general population does not seem angry about it. Folks keep buying low quality meat that has been exposed to radiation, pesticide ridden vegetables, liquid corn and flavor enhanced crap at drive up windows all across the nation. Grocery store shelves are full of labels with unpronounceable ingredients. Big business tells us how good it all tastes and we buy it.

I know it is not true. I am out there converting people one at a time. I buy fresh ingredients and feed them to people who come back later and tell me that I have changed how they look at food. It happens over and over again. I don’t lecture, I don’t condemn, I just feed them healthy food that tastes great and it changes their lives. This is how it has to happen, and it must happen.

One meal at a time we can change the way people think about food.

a couple of resources:
Real Food: about the book
Fatal Harvest: Myth #2
The Center for Ecoliteracy