Eat Local - Eat Food
And so I begin my rant on food. Which will go on for a very long time. I have been having trouble trying to decide where to begin. First, I am unclear as to why I am obsessed with the food that people eat. I am more obessed with the collective 'people' than myself. I think I have partially decided the reasons for my obession with what we are eating.
It isn't just food. Its greed. I don't like greedy behavior. I don't like the fanatic consumerism that has developed in my lifetime. The dollar store mentality. Cheaper more-cheaper more. Or for the wealthy; more, more, more. (This also explains why I sell vintage textiles, used items, recycled items that one cannot find in the dollar store, nor Target, nor Walmart.)
Food has become non food. Things that were something else like corn are now chicken nuggets. Sugar has been replaced almost completely by high fructose corn syrup. Animals are literally tortured so that eggs can be 49 cents per dozen and chicken 49 cents per pound.
You can actually purchase Jimmy Dean Chocalate Chip Pancakes and Sausage on a stick in the grocery store. This is old news of course thanks to Jon Stewart. Before he talked about it I screamed at Rich in the grocery store,"RICH YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS." and we couldn't believe our eyes.
So I can't quite figure out how to put my rant on food together. It is too big to be one rant. And it isn't a holier than thou rant either, I love Dorritos, White Castle, hot dogs and pizza. (I eat these things about once a month, for the record, and not all on the same day.)
Food should just be food. It shouldn't be highly processed and it shouldn't require factories and it shouldn't require an army of workers and barrels of petroleum to get to us. It really shouldn't be all that fast either. If we don't have time to feed our families and ourselves, we ought to really look at our lifestyles and see what's going on. It shouldn't make us ill. It shouldn't drive the incidence of diabetes and heart disease to the highest levels known to mankind. It should just be food.
I have more to say on this. I hope all my thoughts can be organized by my personal neural network. Until then, eat local - eat food.
