CONSUMERS + PROVIDERS UNITED = POWER!
When a major metropolitan daily newspaper features, on its Business Page, an organic food entrepreneur, times are changing!
The San Diego Union-Tribune, recently renamed U-T San Diego, devoted more than a page (February 5, 2013) to U.S. Olympic athlete Kristen Buchanan's organic food enterprise. Buchanan (formerly Kris Fillat) played for the women's field hockey team before retiring in 2001.
After retiring, she opened a 1,000-square-foot cafe in a San Diego Business park and called it the GoodOnYa Deli, making and selling organic food made from ingredients supplied by local farmers and suppliers. Ingredients included cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, chutney, mushrooms, raw honey, and organic sugar.
The GoodOnYa Bar
Thereafter, she created The GoodOnYa Bar, a snack in three varieties now sold in some 100 health food stores. This month she is introducing a fourth bar, called the Superhero, 100 percent raw, of coconut butter, sprouted flax, hemp seeds, maca, goji berries, and lucuma (Peruvian fruit).
Buchanan's "Food for Thought"
"I have learned a lot about nutrition over the years, and even went back to school and became a certified nutritionist. I became passionate about the state of food in our country. And if you look at the state of the health of our country--we are literally killing ourselves.
"It's time to understand what we are eating, find local sources and tap back into decisions that benefit the Earth. When you drink a sports drink with a coloring that is petroleum-based, you are supporting the companies that think it's OK to put chemicals in your body. Those companies don't care about anything except profits. And the health of the Earth, as well as the health of your body, doesn't cross their mind."
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