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A Food Fight of Epic Proportions
Before making a purchase at the market, do you ever stop to think about how it was grown or what quality assurances are in place? Well, I certainly have. Can it really be true that big business gets away with making record profits even at the cost of the consumer's health? How could this be?
Ever since my cancer diagnosis last year, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, listening and reading about all of this. Most recently, after a conversation with concerned mom Robyn O’Brien (AllergyKids.com), who's fighting to make food safer for our children and families, I was left slack-jawed by the information I was hearing. Here’s a mother of four allergy-ridden children who is right smack dab in the middle of a food fight of epic proportions that's only getting messier.
Demanding Disclosure
We really need to take control of this formidable situation. We should be reading more labels, demanding more complete disclosure, refusing to buy products that don't measure up, and discussing the "possible" contamination of our food supply for the gains of big business. Food is becoming less of a nutritional substance and more of a fabrication of what we once thought food was. Instead of fortifying us, it is often tearing us down, rendering our families sick—very sick.
So why are children developing autism, cancer and autoimmune disorders in record numbers? Scratch beneath the surface, and I bet you’ll be led right back to food and environmental conditions.
What can help? Eating clean, fresh, nutritious, non-chemically treated food. But not everyone can afford to “go organic” as the cost of food—especially chemical-free food—has skyrocketed. However, eating some organic is better than none, and why not drink RBGH-free milk products, for extra bonus points! One suggestion to keep the costs down is to figure out which foods you eat most frequently and make those your organic choices. Think of this investment as additional health insurance. In the long run, it can prove worth the additional expense when you save on a slew of medical bills!
Big Change
So what then? How can we bring our food back to the way it was a half-century ago? Well, big changes have to occur. Perhaps we need to separate the Food and Drug Administration into two agencies in order to ensure a secure line of checks and balances between the food industry and the drug industry. One should not feed off of the other. Any way you slice it, changes need to be made, and it all begins with a discussion and an acknowledgment of the problem.
To learn more, check out the movie The Future of Food, by Deborah Koons Garcia (2004).
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