Christian and I watched the documentary Food, Inc last night and boy, oh boy was it eye-opening! I've been getting very interested in this whole "going organic" thing for a while but never really knew enough about "why" I should do it. Well, that documentary gives a lot of really great information about why organics are so much healthier for you and it tastes sooo good! So, Christian and I have decided to buck up and spend a few more each month to have healthier food. The documentary made a great analogy in regards to this movement; when you purchase a car, you don't go out and find the absolute cheapest model... you want some form of quality and something that will keep you safe (same goes for just about any other purchase) but yet when you are grocery shopping, we all try to find the cheapest option to make dinner for our families on the lowest budget. Something seems wrong with that. Something is also wrong with the fact that two hamburgers from McDonald's cost less than a head of broccoli. The food industry is sick these days. The food industry has made more changes in the last 50 years than in the last 10,000 years. Are these changes really all for the better? I think not.
Luckily, living near a large city, we have endless opportunities to make our lifestyle organic. Whole Foods is right down the road and there's also a Wegmans. If I haven't mentioned it before, Wegmans is the most amazing grocery store I've ever been in. I saw a YouTube video on another girl's blog yesterday of Alec Baldwin talking about trying to get his mother to move from upstate New York out to the west coast and she refuses to move because they don't have Wegmans on the west coast. hahaha
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Another thing we're considering is getting all of our meat from the farming community that Christian is from. His dad gets meat somewhere over there so we're going to check into it. If we can't do that or if it's just too much hassle, I guess we'll stick to buying grass-fed beef, organic chicken and organic pork from one of the stores around here. I urge all of you to watch this movie if you haven't already seen it! To learn more about this, go to www.takepart.com/foodinc.
Buy food from companies/farms who treat their livestock, employees and the environment with respect! Go to farmers markets, buy local (even WalMart has a locally grown section!) and buy what's in season (not the crazy scientific tomatoes that are ripened with some kind of chemical when they are grown out of season). The environment will thank you and your body will thank you! I know many of you are thinking "it's just so expensive". So, you want to talk return on investment?? Take an average, low-income family in America. They typically save money by buy cheap, easy, fast food. Yet, when they're in their 40s and 50s, they're bankrupt from medical bills due to high cholesterol or diabetes. That will make you think twice about buying two hamburgers rather than a head of broccoli. Take time to cook... really cook... learn how to make things that don't come from the freezer section (Williams Sonoma has GREAT cookbooks for quick, easy recipes that use fresh ingredients). Don't rush through life. Sit down and have a home cooked meal with your family. Cook with your kids! That will make some great memories. Stay on the perimeter of the grocery store and don't venture down too many of the aisles.... that's where all the science projects are!
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not"
-Dr. Seuss
Happy eating!
Chrissi
Chrissi
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