Basically yes! It's the poor people who really suffer from corporate bad practices. When every cent you make goes to rent, power, cell phone, auto insurance, and the internet (health insurance, if can afford it), there's nothing left for food. If you can't afford these basic services, you're not even ok in our world. Just these basics are way more than minimum-wage full-time eployment for two people. Just these basics take most of American's paychecks. So we're left trying to make our food be cheaper. It's not the price of our food that is the problem it's the price of these basic services! We shouldn't subsidize our farmers to grow government/industry controlled food. We should subsidize and lower the cost of power, cell phones, health insurance and the internet. Then everyone can focus on their health, eat good food and invest in themselves and their families.
As a culture, we've all been sucked in to a lot of bad habits. Too many hours in front of a screen. A lot of our nutrician comes prepackaged. We expect our doctors to fix our health problems with pills. We work way too many hours trying to keep up. Does it feel like we're on a gerble wheel with the final destination not retirement, but sickness?
A big 'ol recession, like we're in now, is a perfect opportunity to re-evaluate our days, our work, our priorities. And for me the answer is simple—whole, real food. Whole, real food. It's how we love ourselves, our people, our commuity, our planet. So I'm trying to learn again, And I'm sharing this information with you.
It is medicine for our bodies. It is how we create health (or disease) in our bodies. It's how we recover from disease. We are so influenced by marketing. But no one is marketing what we should eat—just their product. We can take back our health by bringing our food back home. We need let go of processed, precooked and put in a package food. We need to learn to grow, cook and share food.
There is no magic pill. But food can work magic!
How much do you spend on perscription drups, doctors and health insurance? For many people it's a lot. Wouldn't it be great if we could spend that much on food? Shouldn't it really be the other way around? Do we really hate cooking and growing our own food that much or have we just forgotten how?
