Watching Food, Inc, on Pivot tv last night caused me to write letters to President Obama, and all of my congressional representatives asking them to stop these corporations from delivering unhealthy food!
How have we allowed our food supply and our internal organs to be realigned with false foods and unhealthy growth and slaughtering practices? What we eat, does make a difference in how we respond to the world.
I taught from the book, The Jungle, years ago. It seems that we have forgotten our history and we have made that fatal mistake of returning to the faster, more economical way to get what we want.
Chicken with big breast that can not stand up? Pigs and cows butchered without regard for the safety of the workers? Exported government supported corn, that drives down the prices of other nations corn, resulting in poverty and immigration to the US. The people in Mexico cannot compete with cheat corn prices, so they cross the border! Who can blame them?
Wow, we have this thing backwards. I remember going into my grandmother's yard and feeding the chickens; retrieving the eggs from nests, and bringing slop to the pigs. I was horrified at my first butchering, but in retrospect, it was a much healthier way to eat.
Our small farmers are being robbed by corporations like Monsanto, Smithfield, and Tyson. What can one woman do?
Write, speak, stop buying and supporting these companies, and eat more grain feed beef.
I am taking the pledge during this Lent to stop consuming anything that is not grown in a healthy manner.
I think that I might lose some weight.
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