So I am kind of a foodie. What that means to me is that I have an extreme interest in the production, preparation and consumption of food. I am not a person that lives to eat, I could eat once a day or less and be fine with that. Our consumption behaviors reveal a lot about us. If we just eat whatever and never consider how it is affecting our bodies and minds or ignore the effects, then how does this transfer into other areas of our lives?
Our food system is currently under attack, by corporations and the governments that support them and subsidize their industries. Our choices are being limited and our natural inclinations for certain tastes are being exploited by food product producers that pump their processed "foods" (just because you can eat it doesn't make it food) full of fats and sugars and use other processes to addict us to their exaggerated concoctions.
"Conventional" produce is now pesticide laden franken foods. And we aren't even given the right to know when they are genetically modified. Even though I eat organic I know that organic can be just another marketing tool and a price raiser. And then eating organic, how organic is it when it is flown to a hemisphere where it is out of season or driven across the country. We are revealed by what we do and how we do it. We make choices all of our waking lives.
We need a revolution to regain control over our food supply. We need food justice. Which I have defined as the pluralistic reclamation of the food system so that it simplistically represents and holistically honors the symbiotic relationship between production and consumption in order to make the information to cultivation equitable in its access and praxis regardless of socioeconomic status and any other boundary which has been erected in order to maintain oligarchical control over the supply of nourishment.
I will be discussing this with facts and elucidation of my definition in the future.
Below is a link that discusses high fructose corn syrup a food additive that should be watched avoided. Be well.
How High fructose corn syrup affects the body
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