Rage Against The Cuisine

I’m rather pissed and quite frankly scared by the state of the food industry.. Organic vs Non organic and GMO’s (Genetically modified organism – which where Genetically modified food comes from).

Laws are being passed making it legal NOT disclose the ingredients and tell you exactly what is in your food, and if anything happens to you as result of eating genetically modified food you can’t do anything about it.

You can sue the cigarette company if smoking cigarettes kills you or gives you cancer. Even though they warn you that smoking cigarettes will give you cancer or kill you. They put warnings on the box, right next to a list of ingredients like – Acetone, arsenic, formaldehyde, tar and other toxins harmful to humans. But you cant sue anyone if the genetically modified corn on the cob you eat kills you, or gills start growing out of your armpits or you get cancer.  And you won’t even know it’s genetically modified because they don’t have to tell us what is in our food.

There is a food revolution happening. We are becoming more aware and informed about our food supply.  And if you don’t know, then it’s time to find out what you’re putting in your mouth.  We are addicted to chemicals and food-like products and we don’t even know it.

We are bombarded with information about healthy eating. Don’t eat carbs, Don’t eat meat, avoid gluten, eat raw food, eat like a caveman. It can all be very confusing And convincing. And it just pisses me off. I’m not a caveman or a monk and I don’t want to eat like one. Good for you if you are and it’s working out for you. You wont be reading this anyway because cavemen don’t have computers.

So much complicated advice, usually finding it’s way to us from the very companies selling us tainted food or someone trying to sell us a new product or trend.

We already know that we love fads and trends. We would rather read about something that we should be doing, like eating the latest ancient grain or the latest cure-all 2 week cleanse or a sexy dance fighting class that will give you a new body in 90 days, rather than to change the way we shop for and think about food.

It’s so much easier to go buy something new or add something to our diets than to face the reality that you need to change your lifestyle.

I recently spoke to someone who was convinced that adding a stick of butter to some special coffee is the secret to losing weight because that’s how monks in the mountains do it.  Now, unless you live like monk or a caveman and you’re expending as much energy , you probably shouldn’t follow their diets.  I’m pretty sure the monks having butter in their coffee are not also having donuts and burgers. And cavemen burned a great deal of energy to get to their steaks. And I don’t believe they had bacon. So unless you’re running a few miles and burning a few hundred calories getting to your steak, you probably shouldn’t have the diet of someone who does.

We eat more processed and packaged foods than ever in our history.  We are being fed so many chemicals in our food supply. We are fatter and unhealthier than ever.

75% of our diseases are as result of diet. We are eating ourselves sick!!

Our diets rely heavily on foods that include artificial colour, additives, flavourings, chemically-altered fats and sweeteners.  Foods that are convenient and taste really good, but are often highly processed, and contain very little nutritional value.  The grocery store has become one of the worst places to get food. When last have you seen a food label that didn’t contain ingredients you couldn’t pronounce, or wouldn’t recognize if you saw it. DO you know what a soy lecithin is and what it looks like?

Our food contains Empty calories. Foods contain calories but no actual nutritional value.

Even many ‘health’ foods (e.g. tofu) are so highly processed that they are no better for you than fast food. Most of these foods natural nutrients are removed in the refining process. And our food contains less nutrition than ever. We’ve all heard it.. our moms, or grandmas (or me!), talking about how tomatoes used to taste like tomato, so tasty and sweet you could eat them like apples.  Our food is not the same as it was 20 or 30 years ago. Nutrients in the soil have been depleted so food grown in that soil has fewer nutrients to start with. Large industrial factory farms specialize in fewer products, so chemicals are needed to manipulate the land to produce maximum volume. Think about it, that just isn’t how Mother nature works.  Fruits and vegetables shouldn’t be that perfectly uniform, like Stepford fruit.

You don’t need to be knowledgeable about nutrition to know that you shouldn’t eat poison. If the ‘farmer’ is wearing a hazmat suit to handle the chemicals he puts on your food it’s probably not safe to put in your mouth.

Animals shouldn’t be treated like crack whores, tortured and strung out on drugs until its burger time.

But the food industry and pharmaceutical industries are worth billions of dollars.  And they sell us drugs when we develop diseases they cause. They’re in the business for customers not cures.

If you sell diseases AND the cures you don’t care about people being healthy. A drug dealer doesn’t want addicts to get clean.

The good news is that you can eat yourself healthy again. It’s never too late too start.
 And it doesn’t have to complicated and more importantly expensive. Eating less shouldn’t cost you more!

It also doesn’t mean a life sentence to kale and arugula. Because quite frankly there are some superfoods that I just have no interest in eating.  Good for you if you like eating vile tasting weeds.  I don’t care how many kale chips you get me to try they do not taste just like potato chips. I don’t know what weird shitty tasting potato chips you’re eating, because the chips the rest of us eat is fucking delicious and addictive. You can’t have just one.. it’s the orange or brown crack they sprinkle on the chips.

Eating healthy doesn’t mean no more chips, it just means no more crack chips.

Just stop eating chemicals.

We all know to be careful what we put in the other holes in our bodies, we wrap things in condoms to shove it in our fun bits, but food most of us just put in our mouth and eat it. We don’t think about what’s in THAT flesh or where it comes from?  That hardly makes sense.  Don’t be a mouth whore! Be selective about what you put in your mouth.

All it takes is you respecting your body, Mother Nature and our planet enough to want better for yourself. Are you giving your body and your life the respect it deserves?

Your food is medicine.  We’ve all heard it before. You are what you eat. But just think about it..

Every 35  days or so your skin replaces itself and your body creates new cells from the food you eat.  What you eat literally becomes you.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.

Your bodies make new cells from everything you eat! It doesn’t skip the fries and only take the salad and vitamin supplements. The food you eat literally becomes you.

And you have a choice in what you’re made of.

 “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates