Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot! That was the sound I made
yesterday when I finished the two classes I have been taking for the past
couple months. So for those of you who were wondering where I've been, well,
just imagine a dimly lit attic room with empty cans of seltzer water leading to
a futon where a disheveled girl is sitting among books and strewn about
papers while furiously typing on an overheated laptop. Yeaaaaaaah…that’s where I've
been. Now that I have emerged from that world I am ready to get back to a bit a
blogging.
A few
days ago I watched a film called Food
Inc. and I had my eyes opened to a world that I
knew was there, but didn't
understand. I know I can’t do it justice by simply explaining it so I would
recommend watching it yourself, but it deals with the subject of mainstream
food and how unhealthy it is and how it is produced. To be honest, it is quite
scary to see what goes into your food. The film talks about how we think there
is so much to choose from in the grocery store, but really there are only a few
producing companies that own everything. They choose what goes into your food
and quite frankly, it isn't good. Mostly it is corn that has been genetically
altered to make all kinds of things.
I think
it is funny how there are all these initiatives to make America healthier so
they tell us to eat more fruits and vegetables. While those things are good,
most of our fruits and vegetables have been genetically modified and sprayed
with chemicals that don’t agree with our bodies and therefore more diseases are
born and American health continues to go down the drain.
The film
deals largely with animals, the way they are treated, and the meat that comes
from them. I don’t disagree with eating meat, but the way the animals are
treated truly is wrong. “Whoever is righteous has regard for his beast”
(Proverbs 12:10). We are allowed to eat animals, but we are not allowed to
torture them and make their lives miserable till death.
There
is just so much wrong with the way our food is produced and I have determined not
to support it. Despite the larger cost of organic food, I have decided that
this is what I will purchase. If it saves me from immune dysfunction, insulin disorders,
organ damage, infertility, allergies, toxins, disease, nutritional problems and
hey, even death…it’s worth it.
I know
that this life is not all about food, but it is about becoming Christ-like and
living in a way that would please Him. “To Adam he said, ‘Because you listened
to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must
not eat from,’ ‘Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you
will eat food from it all the days of your life’” (Genesis 3:17). Mans
punishment is difficulty growing food, and no amount of genetic modification is
going to eradicate that punishment. Obviously it is only adding problems as we get
sicker and sicker by trying to get out of the punishment. I want to take care
of my body by eating things that are good for it so that I will have many
healthy years to serve my Savior.
When you go the drug store you don’t
just pick out any old drug to treat your symptoms because that could fatal! You
have to know the ingredients to know if it is going to help you. In the same
way, we need to be aware of the ingredients in our food because there are many
chemicals in them that will harm us rather than help us. I’m not judging you if
you don’t eat organically. It is expensive and I may not always be able to
afford it either, but when I can I will. Just be aware of what it going into
your body.
Open Faced Hummus Sandwich
