What am I talking about? In case you don't already know I'll spell it out for you. The foods you eat are enhanced, protected, and modified to ensure that they look and taste like what you're supposedly buying. Pesticides are sprayed on nearly everything grown outdoors to protect the food from bugs, animals, etc. Unfortunately, these same companies produced DDT, Agent Orange (used during Vietnam), and other pesticides now technically banned in the US. That means, the companies creating massively unsafe chemical pesticides are still creating the pesticides used on foods today. Conflicting interest? I would think so. Additionally, just because the US doesn't use these products doesn't ensure that other countries don't use them . . . and just as an FYI, we import food from these other countries, so you still ingest these things, even though technically the US has banned them.
Did you also know that some foods today are CLONES of other products? Or HORMONE filled? That's right. Cows, chickens, lamb, nuts, fruit, etc, are all being produced with hormones and even cloned to increase availability and productivity. Why would a farmer want to sell 5 cows to market or 6 barrels of apples if he can give them hormones and sell 10 cows and 10 ripe barrels of apples? More product means more money, and money drives life, so what would stop them from putting these things in your food? A good conscious doesn't equal food on the table for families, and they are businesses just like Apple and Enron.
Understandably, because they can produce more food and have less waste, the cost of the non-organic food is going to be cheaper, but if you can afford the organic version, I'd say buy it and buy it now! You know smoking causes cancer and if you choose not to smoke, why would you choose to eat foods that are full of hormones, pesticides, carcinogens, and other unknown substances that will equally mess up your body? My guess is you wouldn't. In fact, these things have been linked to early-onset puberty in young girls, obesity, learning disabilities (ADD, ADHD for example), and cancer, just to name a few. Gross! And to think we do this VOLUNTARILY!
So stop being cheap. Buy one less drink when you're out with the girls or forgo the $20 steak at dinner and eat a salad and spend the money on QUALITY, organic, good-for-you, not covered in chemicals you can't pronounce, food.
Don't believe me? Check out the website: What's on my Food and see for yourself just how your food rates in unpronounceable additives. Take control of your health and treat your body right. You only get one.
Totally agree with you. But, that doesn't mean u have to eat tasteless organic foods. Try ethnic foods. Many of them are really healthy and very tasty. (Not at restaurants) Buy a cook book and have some fun.
ReplyDeleteIf I wrote organic is tasteless, I mistyped. I actually think organic food is much tastier than non-organic food because it's the real deal, with all the vitamins, minerals, and flavors. It takes like its supposed to taste!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do agree with you on ethnic foods. They can be full of new flavors and excitement, especially if it's not something you frequent normally. And definitely, grab a cookbook! Or watch a few food network shows on tv for a few tips and ideas!