Disturbing Trends From My Life
You know the last 6-8 months I’ve become increasingly aware of three things:
- I understand the reason vegetarians are choosing to avoid meat
- Most food that we are putting into our bodies every day is garbage
- We live in a society that has engrained in us a need to consume - both food and products.
The meat growth and processing industry is becoming increasingly disturbing. Olivia recently read Rob’s copy of “Fast Food Nation” and it really supported my suspicions about a lot of stuff - the way that meat is created, processed, and packaged nowadays is abhorrent. Don’t get me wrong - I’m not jumping on the bandwagon after experiencing parts of this book - it’s something that has been creeping up in my mind for a while. The possibility of disease and illness is very much in the forefront, and it’s quite scary.
Vegetables are grown with hardcore pesticides, loaded with preservatives, and coated in edible wax before shipping. I had a granny smith apple the other day that was covered in blue colored wax. BLUE. Let me ask this - if wax is uncolored until you decide to add dyes, why add it at all?
Veg is genetically modified to grow larger and faster. Even the stuff in the ‘organic’ section of the large chain grocery stores is questionable - I wonder if any ‘classic’ genetic strains of vegetable seed even exist anymore? Sure, you can plant the veg and grow it organically, that doesn’t mean you’re not using the new super modified super efficient seeds.
And Fast food, if you REALLY think about it, is completely disgusting. Tasty, but a total pile of crap.
Now hey - don’t get me wrong. I see the other side to this story - genetic modification and hormone animal growth enables us to feed our growing global population. But I’m having a real hard time personally dealing with it lately. I really am beginning to wonder - why am I putting this crap into my body?
Why? Because it’s cheap and tasty.
Don’t worry Charlie Bell - I’m not making a bold claim here that I will never eat fast food or a McCain’s pizza again. I just wonder why I cannot make that decision knowing what I do.
Or does it even matter?
September 22nd, 2005 at 10:37 am
It really is very sick. I never really was fond of meat growing up and after everything I know I don’t think I would really mind becoming a complete “veggie hippie” (a jake pharse) at this point in my life. It is true that all veggies we eat today are not the original strains. They have been crossed and breed to have certain characteristics that people would fine more appealing.
for example: I learned in a genetics class that carrotts originally weren’t orange they crossed them with other vegetables or starins etc. to get them that way. This was all before genetic modifications, so god only knows what they could do now. Make apples that taste like cotton candy or some other equally crazy shit.
Anyway that is the end of my rambling.