Need to Say "NO" to Big Money Food!

I am completely tired of junk food, contaminated food, mass produced, long distance food, corporate food, slave labor practices that produce food, genetically modified food, food labeling tricks, and food fraud.

As a child, I recall my grandfather always had a little garden plot where he would grow a few vegetables alongside massive fruit trees where we grandkids could climb up into and ruin (fairly regularly) our Sunday best. My mother, recognizing the hopelessness of trying to deter any of us from scrambling around the garden, finally began to take play clothes for our Sunday afternoon visits. Wise woman. My grandfather's harvests were deeply hued, richly flavorful and grown right from his soul. Wonderfully imperfect-looking, multi-colored tomatoes, bulging zucchinis, and green beans of all lengths and widths were savored, along with my grandmother's English-style roasts with potatoes. I can smell the aromas from her kitchen even now.

I want to return to that way of life; not out of nostalgia, but out of a deep sense of yearning for wholesome food that comes out of familiar ground and that has not been treated with chemicals of questionable long-term impact to my health. I want to enjoy a long life and be well and strong while living it. Corporate food cannot provide this.

I have gardened and had a plot of vegetables most of my adult life. But, there have been years I just didn't feel I had the time to tend it and how easy it is to pick up a quick already-prepared, calorie-packed meal rather than grow it and cook it. My health has stumbled from time to time because of the hectic pace I've often had to maintain in order to make a living. It is time, however, to stop, reflect, and resolve to go back to the way it used to be.

I am at the time in my life when I no longer see growing my own food simply as a pleasant, aesthetically appealing past-time. I view it as an imperative--for the sake of my health, my sense of self-sufficiency, and the well-being of the planet, however small my contribution may be. We ALL should strive to grow, buy local, and say "no" to big money fast foods that are killing us as a species on this beautiful dwelling place, earth.