Growing Despair at the Plight of Our Earth
Everywhere I turn, I see growing concern about both the quality of our food and what we human beings are doing to our Earth!
The Mechanism <------->Organism Spectrum
Many of us--if not most of us--waver between seeing daily life and our universe as largely materialistic, rather preordained and immutable, in contrast to a view far more flexible, freedom-filled, optimistic and where spirit prevails.
Now, we tend toward one extreme of the spectrum, now, to the other.
Trends Many of Us Take Part In
Across society, folks with varying degrees of hope--or sometimes horror--react to
- Water pollution
- Cruelty to animals in food lots
- The demise of honeybees (Colony Collapse Disorder)
- Melting glaciers
- GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in food
- Chemical fertilizers
- Chemical pesticides
- Food additives
- Food transported from afar rather than grown locally
- Government regulations favoring the profits of food and chemical giants over the health of citizens
What Has Changed?
Before the advent of chemical fertilizers and the materialistic, scientific world view that has permeated and transformed modern civilization, no one spoke of organic food or organic anything!
No one needed to differentiate between organic and natural. All could see that food was both "natural" and "organic." There was nothing artificial about food. All that mattered was what human beings did with their food, how they grew it, harvested it, stored it, and prepared to serve it.
Deep Down We All Want Nourishing Food!
No matter where we stand in relation to profits of the big chemical and food companies, no matter whether we believe in global warming, or care if food is largely grown locally--we, and all our fellow human beings, want nourishing food, what I and many call organic food.
We're on the Road Together
--Just in Different Places Along That Road!
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