Blog Action Day: Food

Let's talk about food on this Blog Action Day 2011.

We all have to eat. But what we eat has become more of a concern over the years. Why are we all fat? Why are we having heart attacks at 40 or dying from cancer? Why are we eating high fructose corn syrup and wood in our food? All of these issues continue to persist, as Americans have become more and more of a food obsessed society.

Americans over the decades have become more and more food obsessed-- with TV shows telling you what to make and eat, and commercials telling you what to make and eat. But we need to be more obsessed with what we are putting into our bodies. Even if we overeat, we can still overeat the wrong things that are making us sick.

There is no reason why a chicken has to be crammed into a cage, unable to move, just so we can purchase a dozen eggs at a dollar. The same goes for pigs, cows, turkeys, and whatever other animal meat eaters choose to eat. Animals being crammed into confined spaces in their own shit is making us sick. But corporations tell us this is ok and that our meat is more affordable that way. We even allow them to put wood pulp in our food and call it fiber. It does not have to happen in order to feed our population.

When Charlton Heston yelled out in 1973 that "Soylent Green is people!" he wasn't far from the truth about the future society we now live in. The movie was talking about 2022 (the book was set in 1999) and we aren't there yet. But we need to make sure we never reach that point. We can and must read food labels and continue to be more diligent about what we eat, even if it is done in baby steps.