Chemical Replacements Are Poison

I seem to be a on a roll this week of building slightly offensive acronyms.  Actually, the acronym is pretty accurate as it applies to our food supply and our economy.

It's as if this chemical consumption for calorie control that began nearly 50 years ago, has changed the standard of food forever.   Now our food is loaded with chemical, but that is not the only problem.  We pay extra for organic and pure food, while obesity and diabetes are at an all time high.  Something certainly seems amiss!  Surely this was not the goal!  Does this fall in the category of "unintended consequences?"

The best way, maybe the only way, to know what's in your food is to prepare it yourself, from the beginning.   When I was a young home maker, healthy meals were fairly simple and basic.  The advice was, to shop around outer edges of the grocery store.  Fresh produce, dairy, meat, and bread were uniformly on the outer walls of every grocery store.  They may vary to a degree, but the variance was minimal.  It served as a good rule of thumb to avoid prepackaged and high sodium products.

Since the advent of GMOs, eating healthy and natural has become a bit more difficult.  GMO labeling is not required, so we don't know if our fresh produce will sprout on the way home or has the DNA of a digestive track of it's own.  USDA standards regarding meat and milk are hazy to say the least.

As I think of all the things I wish I'd known to teach my kids when they were growing up, this is one that simply was not an issue then.  I didn't let them have diet products when they were young, and GMO produce was not even an issue until the mid nineties.   This GMO issue has gained such momentum so quickly, there is really only one way to stop the impact, and that's on a personal level.

By the time our grandchildren are parents, real food may actually be a thing of the past.  The only way to insure pure food, and that only by the protection of our Creator, is to raise our own.  It's already been proven that GMO dominates in cross pollinations, so as I said, it will only be by the protection of our Creator to bless the work of our hands in tending the garden.

Thinking about a spring garden puts a smile on my face, even as the "drizmal" winter weather continues.  If space is an issue check out square foot gardening.