Open Your Eyes; Know Your Food

Sometimes I feel terribly overwhelmed when I try to grasp the whole earth, giant agribusiness picture....
At times, it appears virtually impossible for any one person to even think about going against the way this mega-business, feeding frenzy is really set up all around the world... Major corporations and gigantic mono-crop farms seem to have a hold on a great majority of the land on which we grow our food, and scientists are continuously proving that this is not the great concept we once thought. Afterall, where in untamed nature does just one kind of plant grow?

There is no real relationship between elements on a mono-crop farm.... But then again, we actually have several major corporations wanting to own and control the worlds entire seed supply!! They are patenting seeds and creating new plants that do not reproduce on their own..This means there is no way to save seeds and it creates our dependence on purchasing modified seeds from only one or two major companies, which seems really scary to me..... Just try reading about Monsanto and their Suicide Gene plants.....

However, it is my hope that each person who learns what is going on "behind the scenes" in relation to our food system, will simply become a catalyst for change..... Sure, it is easier to turn a blind eye and just go about our daily lives, but in the end, we are only hurting ourselves....
The way I see it is, just because we DO IT in AMERICA, doesn't always make it right..

It is true that actions speak louder than words... And your consumer dollars speak volumes. The more you go into a grocery store seeking the PERFECT looking piece of waxed and painted fruit, the more you will be supplied with this.

Instead, how about supporting your local farms and organic farmers? Be willing to pay a little more money for the quality of food and life this supports....Cheap, processed food does not pay off in the end--not in health benefits to yourself nor to the planet as a whole. So take care of yourself and each other... learn to really know your food and put your dollars where they really deserve to go. As Joni Mitchell sings, "Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees. Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you got 'till its gone."