Ready Or Not! It's your last 2009 Earth Shattering/Life Enhancing New Year's Revolution!!
Go to your local video store and rent FOOD INC. It's a documentary film produced by Robert Kenner and Eric Schlooser and features Michael Pollan
I can't stress enough how out of hand the commercial food industry has gotten in the past decade. Where and how our food is grown and processed has been kept a secret from us long enough. Enough to have done a lot of damage to our body's systems and cost us a fortune in health care costs. The film explains why the E.coli virus has become a huge problem in our food supply. How cheap and subsidised (also genetically modified) corn is in practically every food in our supermarkets. Even if you don't eat processed and packaged food you'll get corn in your beef since this cheap grain is feed to cows to get them as fat (resulting in disease) as quickly as possible (as profitable to the growers as possible).
The excuse of not having enough money for quality food will catch up to you in the long run. (pay now or pay your doctor and hospital later)
Because we subsidize corn, we can grab a $99 cent hamburger for lunch so we then spend more on luxury items that are beyond our means but this comes at a tremendous cost to our health and to the environment as well. A cow that is fed corn and lives on a commercial feedlot not only lives a horrible life but contributes to methane gas now known to be a huge contributor to green house gas emissions. Healthy cows fed grass (their natural diet) in a pasture don't produce anywhere close to same amount of methane gas. They don't have the potential of getting and spreading E.coli bacteria and they offer us more much more nutrition depending on the quality of soil the grass is grown in. Our choices create better health for the cow, ourselves and the environment. Our doctor's and hospitals are overloaded enough!
Cast your vote for improved food every time you shop!
Once enough of us votes for clean healthy food by our supermarkets' (hopefully in Co-Ops and farmer's markets) choices we will create the change needed in our commercial food supply. Seek out your local farmers that raise grass fed beef, free-range chickens and eggs and stock up your freezer to save money. Value home-cooked and prepared meals over time spent shopping in the mall. The food industry lobby in Washington D.C. is very strong and works hard to protect the sky high profits it's small group of growers make from the current system in place. The only way they would change their practices is if we stopped frequenting fast food restaurants, gave up on 'corn-filled' packaged food and drinks and purchased only grass-fed & free-range.
Be a force for change!
I know this film will leave you feeling outraged and there are many ways you can get your voice heard. I highly recommend becoming a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. You can go to their website (I have it posted in my links) to access a wealth of information from getting your voice heard in Washington and congressional updates to expert nutritional advice. Also becoming a subscriber to Dr. Mercola's e-newsletter on his website (see my links) hooks you up to the latest in wellness products and information.
sCongratulations on the changes you have made to improve your health and environment in 2009! Wishing you an even better 2010!
In health and happiness,
-Lisa Mitchell
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