Food independence
Let’s get real. Most people are not in a position to grow their own food supply. They are the hapless victims of a food system that fattens them for “the big roundup” by the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries. They can’t run away from industrial agriculture because they’re trapped by economics or demographics. Farming and gardening are simply not viable options, at least not yet.
Before a family can move towards healthier eating, they have to jump through the hoops of taste, convenience and the cost of organic food. To complicate the equation, education about eating healthier is notoriously ineffective if you’re surrounded by a toxic food environment. Toxic food environment means the blight of franchised fast food joints and the easy availability of non-local, artificially cheap food that’s calorie rich but nutritionally poor.
Food independence begins with your personal health. You have to be sick of being sick and tired of being exploited. There’s not much point in worrying about the environment outside yourself, if you’re poisoning the inner-world of your own body. In case you haven’t noticed, the macrocosm of elements that comprise the oceans, the vanishing rain forests and the depleted soils are the same elements—air, fire, ether, water and earth—that make up the microcosm of your personal body.
The second step in food independence is to kick the meat habit. If your eating meat, you’re creating a demand for a food that is impacting the environment—your environment—negatively.Kicking the meat habit includes fish and eggs too. Fish are bottom feeders. They eat other aquatic’s stool.
Eggs are the menstrual cycle of a chicken, neatly packaged in a calcium case. Think about it for a moment. Would you slurp down the fluid menses of a human women? If the answer is “yes” you probably shouldn’t be reading this website. You need mental health evaluation. To hanker after meat, fish and eggs is to lock yourself into a consumption or purchasing pattern that does not lead to food independence. As one social commentator put it, “If you think beef is real food for real people, we hope you live real close to a really good hospital.”
The third reason for achieving food independence is social. If you can’t feed yourself, you’re a kept animal. Someone else—usually a corporation or government agency—is determining your biological destiny by supplying foods that predictably creates health problems. This is not rocket science. Fast food may be trendy but it’s somebody else’s medical liability. Someone is making money off your misfortune. If you want to walk away from this disaster, take social responsibility for what you eat, take responsibility for where your food comes from and know who produces it.